This round of job cuts accounts for about a quarter of bentley's workforce.

    Bentley, the ultra-luxury carmaker owned by Volkswagen, is cutting 1,000 jobs in the UK, or about a quarter of its workforce, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new BBC report.

    Bentley has so far declined to comment on the job cuts, but people familiar with the matter have told European media that a formal announcement is expected next week.

    Production at Bentley's Crewe plant in London has resumed, but staff are running at about half normal levels, ITV reported this week.Last month Adrian Hallmark, the company's boss, told Reuters that about a quarter of its staff had been furloughed and another quarter were working from home because of the lockdown.

    It is understood that Bentley's Crewe plant will be forced to leave voluntarily as the outbreak continues to spread through the first half of the year, forcing the company to cut costs and make profits.

    Last year, Bentley completed a turnaround plan, but the company suffered an unexpected negative hit to sales and production due to a dramatic drop in demand for a new car triggered by a Novel Coronavirus.Due to the epidemic, consumers are holding a wait-and-see attitude towards the purchase of commodities, especially luxury commodities.

    According to the SMMT, a trade body, just 20,000 new cars were registered in The UK in May, down 89 per cent on the previous year and the worst performance since May 1952.

    Lookers, a popular British car dealership, said on Monday it was cutting up to 1,500 jobs as showrooms close.Aston Martin, another UK ultra-luxury carmaker, announced small job cuts of 500 on Thursday, a week after appointing a new chief executive.