Automotive News – Late October 2025
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Luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda has reported a decline in revenues and wider losses for the third quarter of 2025, as weak global demand and ongoing tariff pressures weigh on performance.
The Warwickshire manufacturer saw wholesale volumes fall 13% year-on-year to 1,430 vehicles in the three months to 30 September 2025, driving a 27% drop in quarterly revenues to £285.2m (Q3 2024: £391.6m).
Gross profit declined to £82.8m, from £144m in the same period in 2024. Meanwhile the company posted an adjusted operating loss of £50.6m, more than double the £21.7m loss reported a year earlier.
Cyber-attack hits vehicle output with new risk arising from tax charge on auto workers.
• Vehicle output falls -35.9% in September as cyber incident pauses production at major manufacturer while plant restructuring drives down commercial vehicle volumes.
• Ahead of Autumn Budget, industry calls on Chancellor to re-align fiscal measures with pro-growth policies to deliver Industrial Strategy.
• Industry calls for reversal of decision to end automotive Employee Car Ownership Schemes (ECOS) as new analysis reveals £1bn hit to UK’s industrial base, with 5,000 manufacturing jobs at stake and a near half billion-pound hole in government finances.
UK car production fell -27.1% in September, according to the latest figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 51,090 units left factory gates, with the production stoppage at Britain’s biggest automotive employer – caused by an unprecedented cyber incident – largely responsible for the decline as other volume manufacturers reported growth.
The cyber-attack which brought production lines at luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to a standstill for more than six weeks is estimated to have wreaked £1.9bn of financial damage.
JLR, which employs around 34,000 staff in the UK, was hit by a hack on August 31.
The following day it sent all its production staff home, with car manufacturing not gearing up again until late last week at its UK plants in Halewood, Merseyside, Solihull and Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands, and at sites in China, Slovakia and Brazil.
UK’s £500m remanufacturing sector set to harness green growth potential.
• UK’s automotive remanufacturing sector – which returns used cutting-edge parts to same-as-new or better condition – can drive green growth and drastically cut dependence on new, rare raw materials.
• Growing opportunity for expanding remanufacturing of components such as batteries, brakes and tyres, with record numbers of vehicles on UK roads.
• Placing automotive remanufacturing at the heart of the UK’s circular economy strategy will deliver economic and sustainability dividends.
Britain’s automotive remanufacturing sector can drive economic growth and greater resource independence, by returning cutting-edge and costly vehicle parts to same-as-new or better condition – while saving as much as 88% in raw materials compared with a new product, according to a new report by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
The UK automotive sector is set to gain fresh momentum in its transition to zero-emission mobility with the launch of the UK Council for Automotive Academic Research (UKCAAR), a new national collaboration platform designed to unite academia, industry, and government.
Unveiled by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), the initiative aims to harness the UK’s world-leading academic expertise to identify strategic research priorities and anticipate disruptive technologies that will shape the future of sustainable transport. UKCAAR will strengthen links between universities, manufacturers, and policymakers, coordinating research efforts that support the country’s net-zero ambitions and providing foresight on technological trends and innovation opportunities within zero-emission mobility.
