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Britain’s best car makers flex for Olympics show

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McLaren: Britain's best on show for Olympic Games this summer

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24 April 2012

McLaren: Britain's best on show for Olympic Games

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Robin Roberts

Leading automotive companies including Axon Automotive, GKN, Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren are among those selected to take part in a national exhibition, which showcases the very best of British manufacturing. 

British electric vehicle charging company, POD Point and low carbon power technology company, Intelligent Energy are also among the businesses selected to participate in the exhibition.

Beating competition from hundreds of UK companies, they will join around 40 others at the Make it in Great Britain exhibition, which will take place at the Science Museum during the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.

The exhibition is the culmination of the Make it in Great Britain campaign; an initiative launched by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last year which aims to challenge out-dated opinions of the UK manufacturing industry, worth approximately £130bn to the UK economy each year and employing 2.5 million people.

UK automotive alone, accounts for a £49 billion turnover and £10 billion value added to the economy, employing over 730,000 across the sector, 145,000 employed specifically in automotive manufacturing.

Britain is home to some of the world’s most highly sought after cars and you can use our company car tax calculator to work out what it would cost you to run one or alternatively look at business car leasing .

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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