Recession Hits Cars Manufacturers | Pictures of Stocked Unused Cars Over the World

Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track



Honda is halting production at its Swindon plant in April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months. Honda and Japanese rival Toyota are both cutting production in Japan and elsewhere. Pictured, Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo



Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 British jobs would go



The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity



Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers



Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach , California



The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark , New Jersey



Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan



New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain



Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia



Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol



With many manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823



Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.