Coronavirus to cut UK car output by over 15%, more if crisis lasts months - trade body
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LONDON (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak will cut British car output by more than 15% this year and the drop could be even bigger if closed factories have to stay shut for months, an industry body said on Friday, urging the government to do more.The sector, Britain's biggest exporter of goods, employs more than 800,000 people with Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan building over half of the country's cars at factories in central and northern England. The outbreak has closed plants and it remains..