Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

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Link D::eek:

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?
pics of unsold cars

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xSkyDrAx

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That is truly sad :( Too bad you can just just drive to one of these places and swap with something that catches your eye.
 

sandorski

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I suspect this is a BS article. Probably just cars in Storage and most will be sold during the course of their Model Year.
 

pcgeek11

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I don't believe this at all. There is no incentive to continue building cars that are not sold.
 

Raizinman

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Quite often thousands of cars are stored outside a car manufacturer or stored near a dock ready for shipment. Are you claming that these are unsold from the dealer or manufacturer level? Obviously dealers could not stay in business very long if they had left over stock that they just sat in some storage lot. Manufacturers should also not have any left over stock as they pretty much build to order. So, I'm confused what you are claiming these cars are?
 

boomerang

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I suspect this is a BS article. Probably just cars in Storage and most will be sold during the course of their Model Year.
It is BS. I read the whole article yesterday and the guy makes assumptions based on assumptions of assumptions. He came across pictures of cars and created stories that revolve around it.

Below is shown an image of the Nissan test track in Sunderland United Kingdom. Only it is no longer being used, reason...there are too many unsold cars parked up on it! The amount of cars keeps on piling up on it until its overflowing. Nissan then acquires more land to park up the cars, as they continue to come off the production line.
Woah, then he noticed they were all gone one day. Gotta cover his ass so he adds the following:

UPDATE: Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared? Now I don't believe they have all suddenly been sold. I would guess they may have been taken away and recycled to make room for the next vast production run.
The guy has got some form of brain damage. He certainly knows nothing about how a business operates and most definitely knows nothing about the auto business.
 

Triumph

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This guy's writing is sorely lacking any references. Where does he come up with his "facts"?

Below is shown just a few of the 57,000 cars (and growing) that await delivery from their home in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Yes, that's how a port works, ships unload cars onto land, where they wait for transportation to points inland. Does he think people drive them off of the ships directly into their garages at home?
 

boomerang

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This guy's writing is sorely lacking any references. Where does he come up with his "facts"?
He's made them all up.

Yes, that's how a port works, ships unload cars onto land, where they wait for transportation to points inland. Does he think people drive them off of the ships directly into their garages at home?
And land based transportation will be over rail and eventually over roads. If the author had even a semblance of a brain he would understand how so many cars could disappear so quickly.

I only looked at the first page of the comments but nobody, nobody is questioning him. This guy probably thinks his meat, vegetables and fruit are made at the grocery store.
 

LegendKiller

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This is massive ZH fail.

The guy uses pictures of rail/ship/truck terminal shipping centers, or from 2009, and not a single person questions him. It's status quo for ZH. A bunch of short sellers, gloom-and-doomers, and anarchists hoping the world fails so they can live out their perverse fantasies.

Not a single shred of his post contained any modern truth. Perhaps back in the crisis there were some backups, but all of those were worked off.

Even funnier is he can't even understand how just producing cars, without selling them, gets a company nowhere. They have to report revenue and expense, parking a car doesn't produce revenue.
 

Pardus

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I keep my cars for 10+ years, just do the required maintenance and don't abuse it, should last a long time.
 

Mark R

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Meh. I used to drive past some docks where they stored cars. They've looked like that for as long as I can remember.

When you're selling thousands of cars a day, you've got to keep your stock somewhere.
 

Wreckem

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If you go to the port of entries for the 2015 VW GTI you would see thousands of GTIs sitting there for several more days. Shock horror.

I like how he says GM/Caddy make their cars in China. One of Caddys biggest sellers is made in Arlington, TX. You should see its lot waiting for rail car transport.
 
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boomerang

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If you go to the port of entries for the 2015 VW GTI you would see thousands of GTIs sitting there for several more days. Shock horror.

I like how he says GM/Caddy make their cars in China. One of Caddys biggest sellers is made in Arlington, TX. You should see its lot waiting for rail car transport.
Yup, they make caddies in China for the Chinese market. A big duh for the author I guess.

2014 Cadillac CTS is One Millionth Cadillac Built at Lansing Plant

General Motors announced today that the one-millionth Cadillac – a 2014 CTS sedan – has rolled off the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant – the factory at which every CTS has been made.
Just to provide some true information for this one model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac


Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.


Lansing Grand River Assembly, Michigan, U.S.

Arlington Assembly, Texas, U.S.

Oshawa Car Assembly, Oshawa, Canada

Ramos Arizpe, Mexico

Shanghai GM
 
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MarkXIX

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This is the problem with internet "journalism" is that guys like this can marginally convince masses of people that this shit is true and then we have a bunch of loud mouth morons screaming about how bad businesses are.

Fucking moron.
 

DrPizza

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This guy probably thinks his meat, vegetables and fruit are made at the grocery store.

Close.

This guy probably drives past a field filled with vegetables or fruit that are ready to pick, concludes we're producing wayyyyyyy more food than we need and that the excess is left in the fields for wild animals to eat. Then, drives by the field the day after the veggies/fruit have been picked and concludes that they ran all that food through a giant garbage disposal.
 

boomerang

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Close.

This guy probably drives past a field filled with vegetables or fruit that are ready to pick, concludes we're producing wayyyyyyy more food than we need and that the excess is left in the fields for wild animals to eat. Then, drives by the field the day after the veggies/fruit have been picked and concludes that they ran all that food through a giant garbage disposal.
LOL! You've pretty much nailed his thought processes. :thumbsup:
 

Strk

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I remember seeing similar pictures on Top Gear, except it was about the UK scrappage scheme.
 

Capt Caveman

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Wow, OP believed such a stupid article. Common sense is all you needed to have to know that the article is BS.