Beneath the boxy clothing of each lies a platform and power-train borrowed from one of Honda's more popular saloon cars.

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Honda's Swindon factory builds cars and engines for export to more than 60 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia.

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Yet it is not the only one: the British workers who make cars at Honda's plant in Swindon are as productive as their opposite numbers in other countries.

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