Honda's Swindon plant - home of the Euro Civic and CR-V - will close early next year for a period of 50 days. During February and March 2009, production at Swindon will be halted as the credit crunch and fall in sales take a bite. However, there are no plans for redundancies. Earlier in the year, Honda announced plans to cut production by 32,000 units and is now set to produce 175,000 units in the 2008/09 financial year.
However, the situation could improve as the new Jazz will shift production from Japan to Swindon later this year.
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