Where The World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die

worldtruth.tv ^ | May 17, 2014 | Staff

[Red Badger]

More pics at link.................COMMENTS?................

[Red Badger]

A BIG HAT TIP TO 2ndDivisionVet!.......................

[DManA]

I was reading the other day that the average college debt now is $30,000. And I thought, wow, that’s a lot. Until I realized that’s what a medium priced car costs now.

[PissAndVinegar]

I believe this has been debunked repeatedly...I’ll have to dig up links.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It’s a hoax.

[PissAndVinegar]

here’s a couple, there are more with a simple search..

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/google-maps-reasons-unsold-cars-3573293

http://jalopnik.com/that-zero-hedge-article-on-unsold-cars-is-bullshit-1578124255

[Red_Devil 232]

They can store two of them in my driveway.

[mountn man]

OBVIOUSLY...What we need is another Cash For Clunkers program.

Do I really need a sarcasm tag?

[Red Badger]

I used to listen to Paul Harvey every day at lunch time before Rush was on the Radio.

He had a talk one time about this very thing, manufacturers putting out millions of cars every year. He said, and this was back in the 80’s, that it just could not keep going forever. The price keeps going up, they last longer than they used to, the union wages keep climbing. The assembly lines get more efficient.

They would eventually pile up some where. Looks like he was right.................

[Doctor 2Brains]

A hoax or just something that dumb people fall for, it’s been posted and laughed at enough here.

[GraceG]

Send them to China, via plane, via plane that doesn’t land, just fly over a ghost city and dump them out at 35,000ft...

The chinese need work cleaning up stuff...

[Former Proud Canadian]

You are absolutely correct, sir.

[Red Badger]

That program nearly wiped out the used car business, and it’s still not recovered fully. My son-in-law is a car salesman for 30 years....................

[cuban leaf]

It’s a hoax.

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I suspect you are correct, but a couple of questions:
1. Why is the authority of those claiming it is a hoax more trustworthy than that of those claiming it is legit, other than the surface absurdity of the claim?

2. What IS the explanatio for these huge stockpiles? Tempoarary storage before being shipped out, photoshop, something else?

[gwgn02]

FEMA death cars!!!

[Red Badger]

The reasons given at The UK Mirror are not very compelling...................

[Red Badger]

My parents bought a house in 1971 for the whopping price of $17000, 3B 1 Bath, huge corner lot with chain link fence...................I was 16 and thought it was so outrageous that they would never pay it off.....................

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The picture that is claimed to be in Swindon is actually in Avonmouth, just like one further below in the article.

[ElkGroveDan]

Who ever wrote that copy has no understanding of economics.

[BitWielder1]

Makes very little sense. A private company with that kind of stockpile would cut down production, increase the sales force and lower prices.
Of course, Government Motors have no incentive to do so, production quotas are the key, just like in old Soviet.
Union controlled shops I would expect be slow to adjust.
Companies pay taxes on the value of their inventory do they not?
So why would this go on and on? I suspect there may be something to the hoax claim.