Unite union has met PSA over plans for Ellesmere Port Vauxhall plant, which assembles Astra models.
Discussions followed a 250 jobs cut announced this month on top of 400 jobs going since last autumn but the company has said it is twice as expensive to run as the French equivalent plants.
UK industrialist Sanjeev Gupta is bidding to build electric vehicles in a factory GM Australia closed down last autumn.
It ended over 100 years of car making in Australia when it pulled out Holden but now the chairman of GRF Alliance, which has links with Gordon Murray Design, wants to buy the facility and turn it over to EVs.
German authorities have ordered Audi to recall 127,000 models to check on emission control software.
They are part of a much larger number checked since July but now the V6 versions will be retested to verify compliance with the latest Euro6 tests, and the action may affect the forthcoming A8 saloon.
