Where The World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

[Street Guardian USA]

Where The World's Unsold Cars Go To Die
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die

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In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers, better known as "channel stuffing", of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory at dealer lots just hit a new record high. But did you know that when it comes to flat or declining sales and stagnant end demand, channel stuffing is merely the beginning?

Presenting...

Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die (courtesy of Vincent Lewis' Unsold Cars)

Above is just a few of the thousands upon thousands of unsold cars at Sheerness, United Kingdom. Please do see this on Google Maps....type in Sheerness, United Kingdom. Look to the west coast, below River Thames next to River Medway. Left of A249, Brielle Way.

Timestamp: Friday, May 16th, 2014.

There are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up...

THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE

Houston...We have a problem!...Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world. There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained.

Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line.

There is proof that the worlds recession is still biting and wont let go. All around the world there are huge stockpiles of unsold cars and they are being added to every day. They have run out of space to park all of these brand new unsold cars and are having to buy acres and acres of land to store them.

NOTE:

The images on this webpage showing all of these unsold cars are just a very small portion of those around the world. There are literally thousands of these "car parks" rammed full of unsold cars in practically every country on the planet. Just in case you were wondering, these images have not been Photoshopped, they are the real deal!

Its hard to believe that there are so many unsold cars in the world but its true. The worse part is that the amount of unsold cars keeps on getting bigger every day.

It would be fair to say that it is becoming a mechanical epidemic of epic proportions. If anybody from outer space is reading this webpage, we here on Earth have too many cars, why not come and buy a few hundred thousand of them for your own planet! (sorry but this is all I can think of)
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More...........
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die

 

[jokiin]

Check out Jalopnik for the back story on this, the story is doing the rounds at the moment but the pictures are from 2008 when the auto industry was on the brink of collapse

 

[kamkar]

Well we have based out entire existence on consuming stuff, if ppl stop buying things the system collapse.

And its not just tremours in the Financial circles that can send the system into a buying freeze, any thing that will set a reasonably big number of ppl into panic and not thinking on buying stuff will do the same.

What have allways confused me is the way a house can double or trible in value over short time, even tho the house have not been cared for particular good or have the entire roof gold plated.
I call these increases in value for fantasy mony, and i think this is 1 of many evil / stupid things that hold us back as a race.

Allso i dont get intrests in the bank, lets say i borrow 2 millions to pay back in 10 years i will have to pay xx % intrest, but if i instead lend the same bank 2 millions for 10 years before they have to pay me back i only get x % intrest.

Thinking about stuff like that often lead me to think that the best and most decent thing i have ever done is to not have any children, if i had kids i would find it hard to look them in the eye with the world i leave for them.

I might be thinking too much

 

[Boxerman]

Check out:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/unsoldcars.asp

Frank

 

[RockThinking]

After reading the first article, I has the same feeling as below,
Its hard to believe that there are so many unsold cars in the world but its true. The worse part is that the amount of unsold cars keeps on getting bigger every day.

After reading the second article, It would be reasonable,
all those cars in the U.K. aren't unsold inventory waiting to be shipped; they are the precise opposite — these are cars in the pipeline that dealers have ordered, not a vast graveyard of autos waiting to rust.