What cars are made in England?

Although Britain no longer has any volume car manufacturers of its own - it does still manufacture cars for overseas companies, including:

Rolls Royce (owned by BMW, Germany)

Bentley(owned by VW, Germany)

Lotus (owned by Proton Malaysia)

Jaguar (owned by Tata, India)

Land Rover (owned by Tata, India)

MINI (owned by BMW, Germany)

Vauxhall (owned by GM, USA)

It also makes cars for a few Japanese car manufacturers including:

Nissan

Honda

Toyota

Land RoverJag's sister company is also owned by Tata, following its sale by Ford in 2008, and assembles most of its models at Halewood, Merseyside, and Solihull, outside Birmingham.

The Freelander is built at Halewood, while the Discovery, Range Rover and Range Rover Sport are built at Solihull.

Defender models are built at a number of locations around Europe, though there's speculation that Defender production may move to India.

As with Jaguar, Land Rover's HQ and R&D facilities are located at Gaydon, where its models are designed. It employs around 9,000 people in the UK.

• British-built cars: Land Rover Freelander, Land Rover Discovery, Land Rover Range Rover, Land Rover Range Rover Sport

BentleyFamed for its classic luxury vehicles, and more recently beloved of Premiership footballers, Bentley is owned by Volkswagen, although its HQ and manufacturing plant is situated in Crewe.

Bentley designs and assembles its Arnage and Continental series models at Crewe, though hybrid technologies borrowed from Volkswagen are likely to find their way into models in the future and engines and parts from VW are currently used..

Bentley employs around 3,500 people in the UK and works closely with the local community. It offers a coveted apprenticeship programme.

• British-built cars: Bentley Arnage, Bentley Azure, Bentley Brooklands, Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Bentley Continental GT, Bentley Continental GTC

MiniOwned by BMW, Mini's HQ and manufacturing plant is based at Cowley, outside Oxford.

The Mini, Mini Cooper and Mini Clubman are currently produced in the UK.

Mini employs around 4,500 people at Cowley and several hundred more at Hams Hall and Swindon that produce body panels and engines for the Mini models.

• British-built cars: Mini One, Mini Cooper, Mini Cooper S, Mini Cooper Cabriolet, Mini Clubman

Rolls-RoyceBentley's old sparring partner has its HQ at Goodwood, where it produces all of its models, though it is owned by BMW.

Rolls currently produces the Phantom, Phantom Coupe and Phantom Drophead Coupe, with the 'baby Roll's Ghost launched in 2010.

BMW supplies engines and parts come from a variety of sources in Europe, but all assembly is carries out in the UK. Rolls-Royce employs around 600 people in the UK.

• British-built cars: Rolls-Royce Phantom, Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe and Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, Rolls-Royce Ghost (from 2010)

Aston MartinCurrently owned by a consortium of private investors headed by Prodrive owner Dave Richards following its sale by Ford in 2008, Aston is based at Gaydon in Warwickshire on the same site as Jaguar, Land Rover and the British Motor Heritage Centre.

Aston designs and assembles all of its models - including the Vantage, DB9, DBS and One-77 at - Gaydon. The Rapide GT was designed at Gaydon but will be built by Magna Steyr. Aston is also planning to relaunch the Lagonda brand by 2010.

Aston employs around 1200 people in the UK

• British-built cars: Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Aston Martin V12 Vantage, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin DBS, Aston Martin One-77

LotusSports and racing car marque Group Lotus, incorporating Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering, is currently owned by Malaysian manufacturers Proton, but retains its headquarters at Hethel in Norfolk.

Lotus designs and assembles the Elise, Exige, Europa, 2-Eleven and Evora at Hethel, where it also carries out engineering work and provides body shells for the electric Tesla Roadster. Engines tend to be sourced from foreign manufactures.

Lotus employs around 800 people at Hethel.

• British-built cars: Lotus Elise, Lotus Exige, Lotus Europa, Lotus Evora, Lotus 2-Eleven

MGNow owned by Chinese manufacturer SAIC, MG produces a limited number of TF sports cars at the old Rover site at Longbridge.

MG may yet launch other models, likely to be based on old MG Rover designs, and build them at the plant but nothing has been confirmed. MG currently employs around 200 people in the UK.

• British-built cars: MG TF

LTITaxi-builders LTI are responsible for pretty much all the black cabs currently on British roads, and currently build the TX4 cab.

LTI currently employs around 500 people in the UK.

• British-built cars: LTI TX4

FordAlthough it does not manufacture any cars in the UK, Ford produces engines at Dagenham, and manufactures the Ford Transit van at Southampton, although it also produces the vans at a plant in Turkey.

Ford has earmarked the Southampton factory for closure by 2011, when production of the Transit will move to Turkey. Around 850 jobs, currently at Southampton, will be lost.

Wind-powered Ford Dagenham produces diesel engines for its range of small cars, while an R&D facility in Essex employs around 3,000 and works on new engines, commercial vehicles and transmissions.

Other sites in Bridgend produce petrol engines, while at Halewood Ford works on transmissions with Getrag. Ford currently employs around 13,000 in the UK.

• British-built models: Ford Transit (until 2011)

VauxhallGM-owned Vauxhall produces the Vivaro van at Luton and the Astra/Astravan at Ellesmere Port.

GM employs around 5,000 Vauxhall workers in the UK, though there is significant uncertainty surrounding GM's continued ownership of Vauxhall and the future of Vauxhall plants in the UK.

Vauxhall's HQ and a GM design studio are also situated in the UK.

• British-built cars: Vauxhall Astra, Vauxhall Astravan, Vauxall Vivaro

NissanNissan says it produces the most cars of any manufacturing operation in the UK at its Wearside plant where the Micra, Note, Qashqai and Qashqai +2 are built.

Nissan employs around 2,800 people in the UK. A new model, based on the Qazana concept, is slated to be built at Sunderland from 2010.

• British-built cars: Nissan Micra, Nissan Note, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan Qashqai+2

ToyotaToyota builds the Avensis saloon and Auris hatch at its Burnaston plant in Derbyshire.

Toyota employs 4,300 overall, split between Burnaston and a petrol engine plant located at Deeside in North Wales.

• British-built cars: Toyota Auris, Toyota Avensis

HondaHonda builds the Civic hatch and CR-V crossover SUV at its Swindon plant, and will add production of the Jazz supermini from later in 2009.

Honda employs around 4,000 people in the UK.

• British-built cars: Honda Civic, Honda CR-V