What do they do with unsold cars? Millions of unsold cars end up in the graveyard

Elena Yavina

The volume of car production is amazing. Every year, manufacturers try to assemble as many new models as possible for further sale. But not all of them are selling like hotcakes. Many cars remain without their owners. Ever wondered where car dealerships send unsold cars?

Demand is influenced by many factors. But with the automobile business, things are a little different. Manufacturers must take into account the opinions, needs and preferences of all potential consumers in the world in order for their products to sell. Demand in this case is influenced by:

• economic situation in the country. Do people have free money to buy a car, or are they in a state of crisis;
• technical and external characteristics product. The latter includes: engine power, body shape, etc.

We all understand that the entire production run of cars cannot be bought up. One way or another, some vehicles are left without owners. But where do unsold cars from showrooms go?

Where are new unsold vehicles sent?

If this question is asked in search engine and open the pictures, you can see kilometer-long parking lots where unsold vehicles gather dust and burn out.

Parking lots of unsold cars

Such a spectacle can be observed not only in Europe or America, but in Russian Federation. Many believe that these vehicles will never hit the market again. They say this will greatly damage the reputation of automakers. In reality, everything is not like that, and business is business. Manufacturers will not lose money.

How do dealers encourage people to buy new cars?

We are always pushed to make purchases: tempting, juicy and tasty advertising signs, loud and memorable slogans and much more. Cars were no exception. Since purchasing a vehicle is an expensive matter, dealers need to prepare and interest buyers. They do this in different ways:

1. Technical update. Replace one visible part, slightly change the color, shape or material of a fragment of the car - and you have an “updated” crossover with changed characteristics.
2. Adding previously unused parts in production. For example, a “new, improved” gearbox. In practice, this part is already used by competitors.

Dealers go to great lengths to sell a car at a higher price.

No matter how sad it may sound, users fall for all the deceptions and happily give a lot of money for something that is not worth the expense.

What happens to cars after a car dealership if they are not purchased?

To begin with, it is worth saying that automakers know the market situation and adjust production volume to the proposed demand. But there are also unforeseen situations that force dealers to solve problems with unsold vehicles. There are 3 most common options for “upselling” a product to the consumer:

• Discounts and promotions. Holiday or seasonal discounts that do not affect the company's prestige and make it clear to customers that they care and value their money.
• Bonuses. Everyone loves gifts, and sellers actively take advantage of this. So, with a new car purchased in December, you get a set winter tires for free.

If previous methods do not work, then companies try to quietly sell the assortment to their employees and their relatives at impressive discounts.

Millions of cars are gathering dust in unsold car lots.

If this technique does not help, the cars are dismantled for spare parts, which are put into production of new cars. The only thing that goes under the press is the body.

New car sales program “Trade-in”

Another method of fueling demand is purchasing a car through the Trade-in program. It means that the buyer comes with his old car, carries out diagnostics and evaluation, and exchanges it for a new one and pays the difference between his used car and the new vehicle.

The program of exchanging an old car for a new one has both positive and negative sides.

Pros of the program:

1. Without any problems or wasting time, the owner gets rid of the old car and immediately acquires a new one.
2. The car enthusiast receives legal assistance in preparing all documents.
3. The likelihood of encountering intruders is eliminated.

Disadvantages of the program:

1. Vehicles may be valued lower than the owner would have valued upon sale.
2. Small selection of new cars available under the program.

Often, these programs include cars from the list of those that are not in high demand.

Conclusion

Not all cars are always bought, and then manufacturers try to find a way to sell the remaining volume through discounts, promotions, bonuses and gifts.

But these methods also do not work every time. In this case, new, unsold cars are sent for disassembly, and then for spare parts again on the assembly line.

Automakers around the world are cutting production as inventories rise to unprecedented levels. Warehouses and the berths are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand falls...

One of the themes in the past few years has been the surge of such gimmicks, designed to mask lack of demand and bottom-line customer sales, widely used by American automakers, better known as “channel stuffing,” of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory on dealer lots is simply reached a new record level. But did you know that when it comes to flat or declining sales and stagnant final demand, that's just the beginning?

Above are just a few thousand and thousands of unsold cars in Sheerness, UK. Please see this on Google Maps... in Sheerness, UK. Look at West Coast, below the River Thames, next to the River Medway. Left of the A249, Brille Way.

There are hundreds of places and they keep piling up...

Houston...we have problems!...Nobody buys new cars anymore! Well, they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of new, unsold cars are just sitting on runways and parking lots around the world. There they remain, slowly dying without being supported.

Below is an image of a massive car park in Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands and thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with no buyer. Car manufacturers must buy more and more land to park their cars as they continually roll off the production line.

There is evidence that the global recession still bites and won't let go. There are huge inventories of unsold cars all over the world, and more are being added every day. They have run out of parking space for all these brand new unsold cars and are forced to buy acres and acres of land to store them.

The images on this web page showing all these unsold Cars are a very small portion of those standing around the world. There are literally thousands of these "parking lots" full of unsold cars in virtually every country on the planet. Just in case you were wondering, these images were not photoshopped, they are real!

It's hard to believe there are so many unsold cars in the world, but it's true. The worst thing is that the number of unsold cars continues to grow every day.

It would be fair to say that this is becoming a mechanical epidemic of epic proportions. If anyone from outer space is reading this page, we have too many cars on Earth, why don't you come and buy a few hundred thousand of them for your own planet! (sorry, but that's all I can think of)

Below are just a few of the 57,000 vehicles (and counting) waiting to be delivered from their home in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. from Google Maps look south of Broening Hwy in Dundalk to the massive space where all those cars are parked.

The auto industry will never sell these cars with massive price cuts to get rid of them, no, they still want every dollar. If they had to value these cars for a couple thousand, they would sell them. However, no one will buy expensive cars.

Below is an image of Nissan's test track in Sunderland, UK. Only it is no longer in use, there is a reason, there are too many unsold cars parked on it! The number of cars continues to accumulate on it until it overflows. Nissan then acquires more land to park the cars as they continue to roll off the production line.

Are all those cars on the Nissan Sunderland test track now gone? Now I don't believe they were all suddenly sold. I would imagine that they may have been taken away and recycled to make way for the next extensive production run.

Indeed, near this test track and near the Nissan plant they are juxtaposed again, as shown in the Google Maps image below. So where did it go? last batch? By the way, this is not employee parking.

None of the images on this web page are of regular car parks in shopping centers, football matches, etc. Believe me, they are just mountains and mountains of new unsold cars.

The auto industry cannot stop producing new cars because they will have to close their factories and lay off tens of thousands of employees. This will further worsen the economic downturn. Additionally, the domino effect will be disastrous as steel producers will not sell their steel. All the tens of thousands of places where they are produced automotive components, will also be affected, indeed, the world may stop.

Below is just a small area of ​​a giant car park in Spain where tens of thousands of cars just sit and sunbathe all day.

They are also accumulating in the port of Valencia in Spain, as shown below. They are either waiting to be exported to... nowhere or to be imported... to nowhere. Tens of thousands of cars are still produced every week, but almost none of them are sold. Almost every household in developed countries already has a car, or even two or three cars, parked in their driveway.

Below is an image of thousands upon thousands of unsold cars parked on a runway near St. Petersburg in Russia. They're all imported from Europe, they're all parked, and they're all left to rot. Consequently, the airport is now unfit for use for its original purpose.

The goal is now just “use”, without purchase. Below is an image of thousands of unsold cars parked on a disused airstrip in upper Heyford, Bicester, Oxfordshire. They are seriously running out of space to store these cars.

This is a sad state of affairs and there is no answer, no solutions. So cars simply continue to be produced and continue to add to the millions of unsold cars that are already sitting around the world.

Below are tens of thousands of cars parked at Royal Portbury Docks, Avonmouth, near Bristol in the UK. If you look at Google Maps and scan around an area of ​​say 200km you will see nothing but parked unsold cars. They are absolutely everywhere, in this area almost every space has unsold cars parked in it.

Below is the same area in Avonmouth, UK, but scaled down. Every gray space you see is filled with unsold cars. No one would dare to guess how many of them there are...

Like this, more cars what are there people on the planet? When it is estimated that there are about 10 billion cars in the world today.

We literally can't make enough of them. Below are just a few of the thousands of Citroens parked in Corby, Northampton in England. They are added daily, imported from France, with nowhere else to go once they arrive.

So they are new cars, all with a couple of miles on the clock, which were unmatched when driven to their car parks. Below is the latest Google Maps image of unsold cars in Corby, Northamptonshire.

Producing more cars than can be sold defies all logic, logistics and economics, but it continues day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Down below everything is beautiful and shiny, but there is nowhere to go. Red and white and black and silver, purple, pink and blue, all the colors of the rainbow and they are all new. Indeed, all the colors of the rainbow are there on these cars, making beautiful mosaics, colors and still lifes. Maybe that's all they'll do from now on, surreal urban art from the techno production era. Magnificent metal boxes, all standing still because there is no buyer.

All over the world, these cars just keep piling up, with no end in sight. The economy is screaming pretty loudly that no one has any more money to spend on new car. The reason is that they make their “old” cars last a lot longer. But we can't stop them, soon we will run into space to park them. We've almost run out of space to manage them, that's for sure!

Below, more cars are parked at the port of Valencia in Spain. They won't be exported because they have nowhere to go, so they just stand there and rot in their colorful crowds.

Gone are the days when a family would have a new car every year, now they stick with what they have. It may be fair to say that some families still get a new car every year, but that's not the majority.

The results of these factories are that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cars around the world are driven from their factories, parked and driven away.

Can you say that these cars were left to rot!? Maybe, since these cars will probably rot if you don't buy them, drive them, and take care of them. They don't look like they'll be selling anytime soon, many of them have been sitting for over 12 months or even longer and it's not good for the car.

Below, right in the background, are cars, cars, and more cars. But what's beyond the horizon? Any guess?! ... Yes, that's right, even more cars! Everything is brand new, but no houses... Do you think they will ever start giving them away, which may be the only radical solution. Who knows, you might soon get a free car with every bag of cornflakes.

When the car remains parked Idling, all the oil sinks to the bottom of the sump, and then corrosion begins on all the internal parts of the engine where the oil is drained.

Cold corrosion is when condensation rises in the cylinders and rust forms in the wells. The engines will then begin to seize and must be professionally freed before they can be started. Also the tires start losing air and the batteries start draining, really the bad list goes on and on.

The longer they stand there, the worse it gets for them. What is the answer to this question? Well, they should be sold and that just isn't happening.

The epidemic is not getting better, it is getting worse. Automakers are constantly coming out with new models with the latest technologies in them. Consequently, potential buyers of, for example, the new Citroen Xsara Picasso want the latest model, not the model of previous years. Consequently, all unsold previous year Citroen Xsara Picasso cars will now have an even lower chance of being sold.

After all, unsold cars that are say 2 years old will have no alternative but to be crushed, dismantled and/or their parts recycled.

Some car manufacturers have moved their production to China, General Motors and Cadillac are examples of this. They were then loaded into containers and unloaded at ports. However, now they are being told to stop importing them into the US because they simply cannot sell them in the quantities they would like. Consequently, Chinese parking lots are now filling up with brand new American cars. Well, no one in China can afford them on their meager salaries, so they will remain until our economy improves... Which may happen in a few generations.

On this sad note I will end this story...

Ecuadorian authorities have denied Julian Assange asylum at the London embassy. The founder of WikiLeaks was detained by British police, and this has already been called the biggest betrayal in the history of Ecuador. Why are they taking revenge on Assange and what awaits him?

Australian programmer and journalist Julian Assange became widely known after the website WikiLeaks, which he founded, published secret documents from the US State Department in 2010, as well as materials related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But it was quite difficult to find out who the police, supporting by the arms, were leading out of the building. Assange had grown a beard and looked nothing like the energetic man he had previously appeared in photographs.

According to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Assange was denied asylum due to his repeated violations of international conventions.

He is expected to remain in custody at a central London police station until he appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Why is the President of Ecuador accused of treason?

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the current government's decision the biggest betrayal in the country's history. “What he (Moreno - editor’s note) did is a crime that humanity will never forget,” Correa said.

London, on the contrary, thanked Moreno. The British Foreign Office believes that justice has triumphed. The representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, has a different opinion. “The hand of “democracy” is squeezing the throat of freedom,” she noted. The Kremlin expressed hope that the rights of the arrested person will be respected.

Ecuador sheltered Assange because the former president had left-of-center views, criticized U.S. policies and welcomed WikiLeaks' release of secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even before the Internet activist needed asylum, he managed to personally meet Correa: he interviewed him for the Russia Today channel.

However, in 2017, the government in Ecuador changed, and the country set a course towards rapprochement with the United States. New President called Assange “a stone in his shoe” and immediately made it clear that his stay on the embassy premises would not be prolonged.

According to Correa, the moment of truth came at the end of June last year, when US Vice President Michael Pence arrived in Ecuador for a visit. Then everything was decided. “You have no doubt: Lenin is simply a hypocrite. He has already agreed with the Americans on the fate of Assange. And now he is trying to make us swallow the pill, saying that Ecuador is supposedly continuing the dialogue,” Correa said in an interview with the Russia Today channel.

How Assange made new enemies

The day before his arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristin Hrafnsson said that Assange was under total surveillance. “WikiLeaks uncovered a large-scale spy operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy,” he noted. According to him, cameras and voice recorders were placed around Assange, and the information received was transferred to the Donald Trump administration.

Hrafnsson clarified that Assange was going to be expelled from the embassy a week earlier. This did not happen only because WikiLeaks released this information. A high-ranking source told the portal about the plans of the Ecuadorian authorities, but the head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Jose Valencia, denied the rumors.

Assange's expulsion was preceded by the corruption scandal surrounding Moreno. In February, WikiLeaks published a package of INA Papers, which traced the operations of the offshore company INA Investment, founded by the brother of the Ecuadorian leader. Quito said it was a conspiracy between Assange and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa to overthrow Moreno.

In early April, Moreno complained about Assange's behavior at Ecuador's London mission. “We must protect the life of Mr. Assange, but he has already crossed all boundaries in terms of violating the agreement that we came to with him,” the president said. “This does not mean that he cannot speak freely, but he cannot lie and hack.” ". At the same time, back in February last year it became known that Assange at the embassy was deprived of the opportunity to interact with the outside world, in particular, his Internet access was cut off.

Why Sweden stopped its prosecution of Assange

At the end of last year, Western media, citing sources, reported that Assange would be charged in the United States. This was never officially confirmed, but it was because of Washington’s position that Assange had to take refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy six years ago.

In May 2017, Sweden stopped investigating two rape cases in which the portal’s founder was accused. Assange demanded compensation from the country's government for legal costs in the amount of 900 thousand euros.

Earlier, in 2015, Swedish prosecutors also dropped three charges against him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Where did the investigation into the rape case lead?

Assange arrived in Sweden in the summer of 2010, hoping to receive protection from American authorities. But he was investigated for rape. In November 2010, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stockholm, and Assange was put on the international wanted list. He was detained in London, but was soon released on bail of 240 thousand pounds.

In February 2011, a British court decided to extradite Assange to Sweden, after which a number of successful appeals followed for the WikiLeaks founder.

British authorities placed him under house arrest before deciding whether to extradite him to Sweden. Breaking his promise to the authorities, Assange asked for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​which was granted to him. Since then, the UK has had its own claims against the WikiLeaks founder.

What awaits Assange now?

The man was re-arrested on a US extradition request for publishing classified documents, police said. At the same time, Deputy Head of the British Foreign Ministry Alan Duncan said that Assange would not be sent to the United States if he faced the death penalty there.

In the UK, Assange is likely to appear in court on the afternoon of April 11. This is stated on the WikiLeaks Twitter page. British authorities are likely to seek a maximum sentence of 12 months, the man's mother said, citing his lawyer.

At the same time, Swedish prosecutors are considering reopening the rape investigation. Attorney Elizabeth Massey Fritz, who represented the victim, will seek this.

Every year the number of cars that have not found their buyer increases.

There are many parking lots scattered around the world, filled with brand new cars. For example, 57 thousand cars are parked in the port of Baltimore in America.

Tens of thousands of cars are parked in the town of Sheerness in the UK.

And this is a car park in the town of Swindon in the UK. Many thousands of unsold cars have also accumulated here. To create such parking lots, automakers have to buy more and more land.

It would seem that it couldn’t be simpler - all you have to do is drop a few thousand dollars, and the cars will be sold immediately. But automakers don't want to lose a penny, because then they won't find buyers for more expensive models.

And it is also impossible to stop the conveyor. After all, factories will have to be closed and workers fired. Suppliers who manufacture components and assemblies for machines will also suffer.

This is a parking lot near the Nissan plant. There are also a lot of unsold cars accumulated here. Except that some of them were dismantled for spare parts.

The world produces tens of thousands of cars per week. And who will buy them? Indeed, in developed countries, each family has two or three cars. So why buy more? It’s cheaper to carefully use existing ones and regularly visit a car service center for routine repairs.

And in Russia, such a parking lot is located on the runway near St. Petersburg. The cars were brought from Europe, but no one needed them. And the airport cannot be used for its intended purpose.

Thousands of brand new cars are parked in Upper Hayward. The owners no longer have enough space.

Unfortunately, there is no solution to the problem. Cars continue to roll off the assembly line and immediately end up in parking lots where previously produced cars are stored.

Interesting fact: on Earth there are already more cars than people. The number of cars reaches almost 10 billion.

These brand new Citroen cars are imported from France every day, but they sit in Corby in England with zero miles.

For many years now we have been producing more and more cars that no one will buy.

The number of parking lots is not known to anyone the cars you need is growing rapidly all over the world. Why buy a new one if old car good quality, and lasts a long time?

And there is not enough space to store cars. Moreover, soon there will be nowhere to ride them. In parking lots, cars are simply slowly destroyed. Condensation accumulates in the cylinders, a process called cold metal corrosion. The batteries run low and air begins to leak out of the tires. You can no longer start the car right away - this could damage the engine.

The automotive industry does not stand still. New technologies and new improved models are being developed all the time. A car that has been parked for more than a decade has no chance of being purchased. It will either be dismantled for parts or crushed in a press.

Auto giants such as General Motors and Cadillac have moved the production of their cars to China. But such expensive cars are not in demand in this country. And now all the free sites in China are filled with brand new American cars.

This area where they are stored new Toyota, occupies 60 hectares in Long Beach, California.

And these are the new Ford pickups in Detroit.

Parking in Bristol.

New Land Rover The Freelander is awaiting departure at the port of Liverpool.

The number of unsold cars in the world is growing every year. What happens to cars that for some reason are not in demand by consumers? The recession continues. What you see in this article is just the tip of the iceberg. There are still many similar parking lots filled with brand new cars in the world. If you think that this is all photoshop, you are mistaken - all the pictures are genuine. For example, there are 57 thousand cars waiting to be sold in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland.
You see thousands and thousands of unsold cars parked in Sheerness, UK.
This is a large car park in the town of Swindon, UK, where thousands of cars have accumulated, and there are still no buyers in sight... Car manufacturers are having to buy more and more land to house the accumulating remains there. It would be logical to announce discounts. However, automakers are not making concessions. They want to get back every dollar they spent on making these machines. In addition, if you knock a couple thousand dollars off each car, other expensive cars will remain without a buyer.
You see huge areas with brand new cars. Car companies can't stop the assembly line, because then they would have to close factories and fire thousands and thousands of workers. In this case, by the way, a domino effect will begin - steel mills, whose products are used to make automobile bodies, will go bankrupt, and a bunch of other enterprises that manufacture components and assemblies for cars will close.
This is a parking lot near the Nissan plant. At the time of writing this article, all these cars were in place, no one had bought them. Some of them have probably already been processed into spare parts.
Tens of thousands of cars are produced in factories every week, but they hardly sell. In developed countries now almost every family has a car, or even two or three, so why do we need new ones? It is much more profitable for the consumer to carefully use an already purchased car and give it to a car service for, say, body repair than buying a brand new car.
And this is Russia. Thousands of cars are now parked on the runway near St. Petersburg. They were brought from Europe and now no one needs them. The airport also cannot be used for its original purpose. The usual “buy-use-buy” cycle has been broken; now only “use” is in use, without purchasing. Once again you see thousands of unsold cars in Upper Hayward, Bicester, Oxfordshire. By the way, the owners no longer have enough space.
It's sad to admit, but there is no real solution to the problem. So cars continue to roll off the assembly line and end up in parking lots where millions of other vehicles are already stored.
You will be surprised, but there are more cars on our planet than human beings, almost 10 billion. We are already feeling close to them. You see several thousand brand new Citroen cars parked in Corby, Northamptonshire in England. They are brought here from France every day, and from the day they arrive they have nowhere else to go.
So they stand there, brand new cars with zero mileage. This is a recent May photo from space of unsold cars in Corby (Northamptonshire).
The production of more and more cars that cannot be sold, contrary to logic, needs and economic laws, continues every day. every week, every year for many years.
Stockpiles of unwanted cars are piling up around the world. There are more and more of them, and there is no end in sight to this process. Economists say consumers don't have the money to buy new cars. The problem is that “old” cars now last a long time, but we cannot stop producing new ones. We are running out of space to store them. Moreover, we don’t even have a place to ride them!
Gone are the days when families bought new car every year, now people use what they have. Some families may change cars every year, but most prefer to drive the old ones. The proof is right in front of your eyes. Millions of cars roll out of factory gates and then sit in parking lots forever.
These cars were left here to deteriorate. It doesn't look like anyone will buy them. In any case, there have been no changes in this parking lot over the past 12 months, and a long stay without traffic is destructive for cars. Condensation begins to accumulate in the cylinders, this process is called cold metal corrosion. Now you can’t just start the car without damaging the engine. Air begins to leak out of the tires, and the batteries run out. The list of malicious processes goes on.
So how to stop this epidemic? Where is the exit? Automakers are constantly developing new models with the latest technologies. Unsold cars that are two years old no longer have a chance of finding a buyer. They have no other alternative than to be dismantled for parts or crushed under pressure. Some of the auto giants have moved production to China, for example General Motors and Cadillac. Unfortunately, cars produced in China under an American license are not in demand in the United States in the same volumes. Now the sites in China are filled to capacity with such brand new American cars. The Chinese cannot yet afford this luxury, so they must wait until the economy recovers, and this may take several generations.