The steep decline in worldwide car sales is causing automakers to stash over-produced cars in unlikely places, like on Nissan’s UK test track above. Below, a gallery of places other automakers are stashing un-sold cars.
Since the problems of over-productions are global, we’ve put together a selection of photos of cars stacking up around the world. Sometimes they’re being stacked in strange places like the above shot from Nissan’s test track. Usually, the location is more pedestrian with recently produced cars plopped out front of the factories they’re produced at. For instance, Land Rovers and Jaguars are now being stacked up outside a plant in Liverpool. Similarly, Ford F-150s are piling high in Detroit near their assembly facility.
I have a couple spaces in my driveway they can use. See gallery here.
Damn, all those unsold boring cars. I wonder if Porsche or BMW have any unsold cars they’d like to unload cheap?
It’s like Sea Lawyer says (basically), once again the principle of Supply and Demand is shown to be useless or a sham. They can produce these cars, than then apparently pay little or no inventory tax on them. And keep them mothballed out on some company acreage, rather than sell them at a greatly reduced price. Because if they did sell them cheap, they know the bottom would fall out of their company stock, as well as their rival’s stock. These cars are probably waiting to be “reVINed” as 2009s or 2010s. And who really thinks they design and build electric cars, before they’ve offloaded this dead inventory?
And if their “proving grounds” are crammed with unmarketable cars. How are these automakers “proving” anything new they come up with. I’ll bet they’re using that stretch of highway that was built for the movie “Matrix II”, to show off their cars performance. That is when it’s not a 100% CGI’d commercial.
Who wants a 12 MPG ThunderTurd XL SUV when the Plutocrats are ramping gas prices back up after the election? Not I.
Six Sigma, Lean and JIT type systems don’t apply when there are unions involved. They screw things up. Well, the prevent them from even taking place
Gas prices after election going up is a no surprise. Just wondering why people aren’t really upset and rioting. Maybe they need to see it hover near $5.00/gallon again. There isn’t a reason why it’s going up.
#18 – You didn’t get the memo? We’re in a socialist country now. What’s yours is theirs, comrade.
Whazzup there, I’ve just read your post about » Automakers Struggling to find places to Stash Unsold Vehicles Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log., thank you for your information. I’ve certainly picked up something interesting from right here. I did however expertise many technical points using this blog, as I experienced to reload the site many times previous to I could get it to open correctly. I had been wondering if your hosting is OK? Not that I’m complaining, but sluggish loading instances times will sometimes affect your placement in google and could harm your high quality score if advertising and marketing with Adwords. Anyway I’m adding this RSS to my e-mail and can look out for much more of your respective intriguing content. Make sure you update this again soon.