Bloomberg View:
Specter of No Brexit Deal Haunts U.K. Automakers
3 March 2017
Swati Dhingra, an economics lecturer at the London School of Economics, estimated in a study prior to last year's referendum that Brexit could reduce total U.K. car production by as much as 12 percent.
Related article
8 June 2016
The UK in a Changing Europe – King’s College London
Brexit and foreign investment: cars and cash
Article by Swati Dhingra
One of the key issues in the referendum campaign has been the extent to which a Brexit would affect the UK’s economy. While much of this discussion has focused on trade, the role of investments in the UK from other EU countries is also important. The UK is a major recipient of investment, with only the United States and China receiving more foreign direct investment (FDI) than the UK. And of this investment in the UK (which has an estimated stock value of over £1 trillion) about half has come from other EU countries.
http://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-and-foreign-investment-cars-and-cash/