Is it important where a car is built? It’s a particularly pertinent question to ask this week, when our cover star is the E-Pace – the first ever Jaguar not to be produced in the UK. It’s set to be manufactured in Graz in Austria.

Also featuring in our issue is the Lynk & Co 01, an SUV that will be sold globally by Volvo’s owner Geely but made in China. That would have set the alarm bells ringing for many a decade ago, but editor in chief Steve Fowler tells me he was massively impressed with the car’s quality when he went for an exclusive ride around the streets of Gothenburg.

• Prices and specs for the Jaguar E-Pace

At the same time I was in Morocco at a Dacia plant that has produced a million cars in five years. Buyers in Spain, France and Germany buy Sanderos from there in their thousands, with no quibbles. I asked Dacia’s commercial director François Mariotte, an experienced Renault Group man, why the company had chosen to manufacture cars there.