FACTBOX: Production cuts by European vehicle makers

(Reuters) - European car and truck makers are cutting working hours, extending normal year-end holidays and shutting down factories to slow output at a time of slumping demand.

Measures announced so far include:

FORD

Ford in Germany is reducing output by nearly 4 percent this year and cutting 500 part-time and temporary jobs, its head told German newspaper Die Welt.

MAN

Halting production at its German truck assembly plants for 40-50 days. It says it will probably apply in December for shorter working hours.

DAIMLER

Shortening working hours at its main German plant in Sindelfingen for three months from January 12, affecting two-thirds of the factory's 28,000 workers, works council head Erich Klemm said. The works council is in talks with management over shortening working hours at all of Daimler's German plants.

BMW

Suspended production at its factory in Leipzig for a week in October and is operating only one shift a day there. The company plans to cut 400 further temporary workers in Leipzig, in addition to previously announced plans to cut 8,100 full-time jobs around the world. It closed two other plants during Bavarian autumn holidays from November 3 to 7.

VOLKSWAGEN

Considering suspending production at its main Wolfsburg plant from December 18 to January 11. Its luxury brand Audi is considering similar measures.

PORSCHE

Closed its main plant for one day in November and plans to shut for another seven days before end-January.

PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN

Cutting production by 30 percent in the fourth quarter and closing some sites for between a few days to a few weeks. Cutting up to 3,550 jobs, after having already cut 7,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy since 2007.

RENAULT

Closed the Dacia Pitesti plant in Romania from November 20 to December 3. Shutting STA Ruitz from December 10 to Jan 3 and stopping production at Spanish Valladolid assembly plant for 11 days, in addition to one-week closures at the Palencia plant in November and December. Also stopping production at its Moscow plant, which produces the Logan, from December 12 to December 31. Planning further output cuts if markets deteriorate further.

FIAT

Shutting its six plants in Italy for four to six weeks in December and January. Halted production at its Mirafiori plant in Turin for the last week of November, after having shut down the plants for brief periods between August and November. In Brazil, it shut its Betim plant down from November 11 to 26.

HONDA

Cutting production at its UK factory by an additional 21,000 cars, bringing the total reduction there to 63,000 units in the year to March 2009, or more than 20 percent of annual capacity.

SCANIA

Halting truck production in Europe for a month from December 22, using flexibility options in employees' contracts. Also stopping bus production in Sodertalje, Sweden, for four weeks instead of the originally planned three-week closure.

VOLVO

Shutting production on some days and weeks in the fourth quarter, mainly in December.

(Reporting by Michael Shields in Frankfurt, Hendrik Sackmann in Sindelfingen, Germany, Gilles Castonguay in Milan and Helen Massy-Beresford in Paris; Editing by Victoria Bryan)