By Tyler Durden
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)
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.
With Google Maps look South of Broening Hwy in Dundalk for the massive
expanse of space where all these cars are parked up.
The car industry would never sell these cars at massive reductions in
their prices to get rid of them, no they still want every buck. If
they were to price these cars for a couple of thousand they would sell
them. However, nobody would then buy any expensive cars and then they
would end up being unsold. Its quite a pickle we have gotten ourselves
into.
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.
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.
Indeed next to that test track and adjacent to the Nissan factory,
they are collating again as shown on the Google Maps image below. So
where did the last lot go? This is not an employees car park by the way.
None of the images on this webpage are of ordinary car parks at
shopping malls, football matches etc. Trust me, they are just mountains
and mountains of brand spanking new unsold cars. There is no real
reason why you should be driving an old clunker now is there?
The car industry cannot stop making new cars because they would have
to close their factories and lay off tens of thousands of employees.
This would further add to the recession. Also the domino effect would
be catastrophic as steel manufactures would not sell their steel. All
the tens of thousands of places where car components are made would also
be effected, indeed the world could come to a grinding halt.
Below is shown just a small area of a gigantic car park in Spain where tens of thousands of cars just sit and sunbathe all day.
They are also piling up at the port of Valencia in Spain as seen
below. They are either waiting to be exported to...nowhere or have been
imported...to go nowhere.
Tens of thousands of cars are still being made every week but hardly
any of them are being sold. Nearly every household in developed
countries already has a car or even two or three cars parked up on their
driveway as it is.
Below is an image of thousands upon thousands of unsold cars parked
up on a runway near St Petersburg in Russia. They are all imported from
Europe, they are all then parked up and they are all then left to rot.
Consequently, the airport is now unusable for its original purpose.
The cycle of buying, using, buying using has been broken, it is now
just a case of "using" with no buying. Below is an image of thousands of
unsold cars parked up on an disused runway at Upper Heyford, Bicester,
Oxfordshire. They are seriously running out of space to store these
cars.
It is a sorry state of affairs and there is no answer to it,
solutions don't exist. So the cars just keep on being manufactured and
keep on adding to the millions of unsold cars already sitting redundant
around the world.
Below are parked tens of thousands of cars at Royal Portbury Docks,
Avonmouth, near Bristol in the United Kingdom. If you look on Google
Maps and scan around the area at say 200ft you will see nothing but
parked up unsold cars. They are absolutley everywhere in that area
practically every open space has unsold cars parked up on it.
Below is that same area in Avonmouth, UK, but zoomed out. Every gray
space that you see is filled with unsold cars. Anyone want to hazard a
guess at how many are there...
As it is, there are more cars than there are people on the planet
with an estimated 10 billion roadworthy cars in the world today.
We literally cannot make enough of them. Below are seen just a few of
the thousands of Citroen's parked up at Corby, Northamptonshire in
England. They are being added to daily, imported from France but with
nowhere else to go once they arrive.
So there they sit, brand spanking new cars, all with a couple of
miles on the clock that was consummate with them being driven to their
car parks. Below is the latest May 2014 Google Maps image of unsold
cars in Corby, Northamptonshire.
Manufacturing more cars than can be sold is against all logic,
logistics and economics but it continues day after day, week after week,
month after month, year in year out.
Below is shown a recent (April 2014) screen grab from Google Maps of
the Italian port of Civitavecchia. All those little specks are a few
thousand brand new unsold Peugeots. Just collecting dust and maybe a
bit of salty sea spray!
Below, all nice and shiny but with nowhere to go. Red and white and
black and silver, purple, pink and blue, all the colors of the rainbow
and be they all brand new. Indeed all the colors of the rainbow are
down there on those cars, making pretty mosaics, montages of color and
still life. Maybe that is all they will now ever be, surreal urban art
of the techno production age. Magnificent metal boxes, wasting space
and saving grace, all sitting still, because its business at mill.
All around the world these cars just keep on piling up, there is no
end in sight. The economy shouts out quite loud that nobody has the
money anymore to spend on a new car. The reason being that they are
making their "old" cars go on a lot longer. But we cannot stop making
them, soon we will run out of space to park them. We are nearly running
out of space to drive them that's for sure!
Below, more cars mount up in the port of Valencia in Spain. They will
not be exported as there is nowhere for them to go, so they just sit
and rot in their colorful droves.
Gone are the days when the family would have a new car every year,
they are now keeping what they have got. It may be fair to say that
some families still get a new car every year but its the majority that
now do not.
The results are in these images, hundreds of thousands if not
millions of cars around the world are driven from their factories,
parked up and left.
Could we say that these cars have been left to rot! Maybe, as these
cars will certainly rot if they are not bought, driven and cared for.
It does not look like they will be sold any day soon, many of them have
been standing for over 12 months or even longer and this is detrimental
to the car.
Below, as far as the eye can see, right into the background, cars,
cars and more cars. But what's beyond the horizon? Have a guess...Yes
that's right...even more cars! All brand new but with no homes to go
to. Do you think they will ever start giving them away, that may be the
only radical solution. Who knows, you could soon be getting a free car
with every packet of cornflakes.
When a car is left standing idle, all the oil sinks to the bottom of
the sump, and then corrosion begins to set in on all the internal engine
parts where the oil has drained away.
Cold corrosion is when condensation builds up in the cylinders and
rust forms in the bores. The engines would then start to seize and would
need to be professionally freed before they could be started. Also the
tires start to lose air and the batteries start to go flat, indeed the
detrimental list goes on and on.
So the longer they sit there the worse it slowly becomes for them.
What is the answer to this? Well they need to be sold and that just
isn't happening.
The epidemic is not improving, it is getting worse. Car
manufactureres are constantly coming out with new models with the latest
technology in them. Hence prospective buyers of, for example, a new
Citroen Xsara Picasso want the latest model, not last years model.
Hence all the unsold Citroen Xsara Picasso cars from the previous year
will now have even lesser chance of being sold.
The problems then just keep on mounting up. In the end, the unsold
cars that are say 2 years old will have no alternative but to be either
crushed up, dismantled and/or their parts recycled.
Some car manufacturers moved their production over to China, General
Motors and Cadillac are examples of this. They are then shipped over in
containers and unloaded at ports. However they are now being told to
put a big halt in their import into the U.S.A. as they just can't sell
them in the quantities they would desire. Consequently Chinese car
parks are now filling up with brand new American cars. Well nobody in
China can afford them on their meagre pittance wages, so there they will
stay until our economy improves...which it might do in a few
generations.
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