LONDON — Nissan has stopped output at Britain's biggest car factory due to the impact from coronavirus as it assesses supply-chain disruption and the drop in demand, the most significant closure to affect the country's autos sector so far from the outbreak.
Nissan's Sunderland factory in northeastern England made nearly 350,000 of Britain's 1.3 million cars last year, producing the automaker's Qashqai, Juke and Leaf models.
"Further measures are currently under study as we assess supply-chain disruption and the sudden drop in market demand caused by the COVID-19 emergency," Nissan said in a statement.
Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car factory in northern England was also due to close on Tuesday until March 27 as party of parent company PSA's plans to shut sites across the continent to handle the crisis.
