Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

[TerryMason]

So it turns out that car manufacturers all over the world have been having a hard time selling cars. Instead of letting these cars go at big discounts (who would buy a car for full price when they could get one super cheap), they have been mothballing them for years, and have built up huge lots of these cars. These is a pretty good article on this here:
Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die | Zero Hedge

however here are some of the photos:

Swindon, United Kingdom:


Nissan test track in Sunderland United Kingdom:


runway near St Petersburg in Russia:

 

[southtj]

Here is another opinion on that article.

The visuals are strong, the headline is clear, and you almost don't have to read the article to viscerally understand the problem. I, more than anyone, get the appeal of this story because it seems to largely rip off an article I wrote — including the images and headline — more than five years ago (which itself was largely a rehash of a Guardian article).

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I would think that most intelligent people would read this and obviously see the flaws but, alas, I've had enough emails about it this morning that I feel the need to refute it. And since it's a (bad) copy of something I wrote, I have an extra responsibility to kill this misunderstanding before it has a chance to spread.

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I'll get to a point-by-point refutation in a second, but if you don't have time for that just look at the photos and look at my article and then look at a Google Satellite pic of those same places and you'll see they're gone.

 

[jps4jeep]

It's fake. Well documented on Jalopnik

 

[lefthand90]

Its massive after all this years..