We don't usually take much interest, except in rare cases the Zil car factory in Moscow, for instance.
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At the Nissan car factory near Sunderland in the North East, this strategy seems to be working.
Visitors are more likely to think it is an art gallery or modern office block than a car factory.
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The conveyor belt at the giant Avtovaz car factory, which produces the ubiquitous Lada, has spent much of this year motionless.
Union convener Chris Bond, who has worked at the plant since 1979 said the 1970s at the car factory was "quite eventful".
In 1967 he returned to the North West to become a production line worker at the Vauxhall car factory at Ellesmere Port.
In 2008 she led the opposition to Tata building a big car factory in rural West Bengal, arguing that farmers were being exploited.
First, imagine a NAFTA single market, with legal powers to ban congressional aid intended to stop a Detroit car factory moving to Mexico.
Although cuts at GM and Chrysler have removed some (though not enough) excess capacity in America, not a single car factory in Europe has closed so far.
However, Belgian politicians, their hackles raised by Renault's recent decision to close a local car factory, are professing outrage at the mere idea of Lyonnaise running Tractabel.
As well as the car factory and its supply firms, there are several hi-tech companies here like Intel and Motorola and a cluster of small specialist outfits.
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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
More recently, the authorities tried to develop Bam by rebuilding the ancient town as a tourist attraction and by building a car factory on the edge of the desert.
Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car factory will build at least 160, 000 Astra vehicles a year in a deal that secures the future of the plant and protects thousands of jobs.
Trinamool, which means grassroots, won after she led a campaign against plans by Tata, India's biggest firm, to build a car factory on land she claimed was taken unfairly from farmers.
When Ratan Tata, a revered industrialist, tried to build a car factory in West Bengal, its populist leader flung him out, arguing that farmers were being unjustly forced off their land.
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Despite these setbacks, the church still plans to build a huge church in Pyongyang and a car factory in Nampo, to join the (money-losing) car plant it already runs in Vietnam.
The People's Car factory is already caught in the crossfire, as politicians and pressure groups squabble over forcing destitute farmers off their land for a project expected to bring 10, 000 jobs to industry-hungry West Bengal.
His route ran close to those neighbours' borders, with brief hops across, for instance to meet the Polish president and prime minister, and to visit a Skoda car factory, in the Czech republic but owned by Volkswagen.
Some critics note that Mr Magalhaes's sudden concern for the poor dates back to a row last month over the tax breaks and government loans offered to Ford to build a car factory in his home state, Bahia.
Hyundai, for example, confirmed that it would suspend construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland and a car factory in Indonesia (both measures that had already been announced), and postponed its founder's dream of building a steel plant.
South Korean police have broken up a strike at a car parts factory which was threatening the country's car industry.
Workers have finished their last shift at the car parts factory TRW in Resolven, near Neath, which is closing.
Not only is one of the candidates a former bartender, boxer, prison guard, professional gambler, car-factory worker and snowplough driver.
Workers in Gorseinon were also hit by the closure of the Valeo car components factory in 2001 which cost 330 jobs.
The loss of 190 jobs have been confirmed with the closure of a car parts factory in Rhondda Cynon Taf, a union has confirmed.
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At the time, Miss Jenkins was in London with former workers of the Visteon car parts factory in Swansea who were protesting over lost pensions.
Soon after two chlorine bomb attacks last month, the military discovered a car bomb factory in Anbar and found a supply of chlorine cylinders there.
Talks to try to save a car parts factory near Swansea, which is due to close with the loss of 200 jobs, are due to be held.
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