Are there really fields full of new cars just rotting...?
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Apologies if this one has been done already, but reading the overpriced cars thread reminded me of a story I read a couple of weeks ago about unsold new cars just being left to rot.
This is not the first time I have read about this in the past couple of years.
To be fair I think the issue was more in Europe.
If so it seems a shame but I am interested more in why supply and demand does not allow these to come on to the market. I am puzzled that it makes more sense to a manufacturer to allow product to roll off it's production line only to be written off??
just curious....
This is not the first time I have read about this in the past couple of years.
To be fair I think the issue was more in Europe.
If so it seems a shame but I am interested more in why supply and demand does not allow these to come on to the market. I am puzzled that it makes more sense to a manufacturer to allow product to roll off it's production line only to be written off??
just curious....
eybic said:
There are definitely cars sitting in fields waiting to be sold to dealers, not all manufacturers operate this way but some certainly do.
From the office window I can see about 50 various Land Rover's parked up. Have been there 6 months minimum. Last year it was defenders, this year seems to be evoque's and disco's!I'm guessing it's one of these debunked stories that the OP has seen. Unfriend whoever posted it on Facebook - you're better than that.
A similar thing was what finally did for Rover group, wasn't it? They bought acres of camo netting to cover the acres of unsold cars they had standing about and the netting seller told the media (or so I heard)...Can't find the story now...
There is a guardian story from last year suggesting some blogger reckoned he'd uncovered a conspiracy to hide the early signs of global meltdown...http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/19/unsold-cars-google-maps_n_5350166.html
There is a guardian story from last year suggesting some blogger reckoned he'd uncovered a conspiracy to hide the early signs of global meltdown...http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/19/unsold-cars-google-maps_n_5350166.html
S3_Graham said:
From the office window I can see about 50 various Land Rover's parked up. Have been there 6 months minimum. Last year it was defenders, this year seems to be evoque's and disco's!
They aren't going to be the same ones for the entire time...http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Many many times as an automotive quality engineer I have had to do off site quality sweeps on stored cars.
What I find amazing is that they can't ever find the last few cars! Seriously, you have a compound with 1000's of cars in, each in a numbered bay, but even after half a day of driving up and down row after row of cars, the compound operators can't find the last 3 £60,000 Range Rovers!
What I find amazing is that they can't ever find the last few cars! Seriously, you have a compound with 1000's of cars in, each in a numbered bay, but even after half a day of driving up and down row after row of cars, the compound operators can't find the last 3 £60,000 Range Rovers!
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.568...
I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
gmasterfunk said:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.568...
I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
Sandtoft near Doncaster - it's a huge vehicle distribution compound for Lookers Group, and also a remarketing site for end of lease vehicles. It looks full in that picture, but much like Bruntingthorpe, https://goo.gl/maps/I9dRX , Immingham, https://goo.gl/maps/qd0Ey and Bedford https://goo.gl/maps/WY9Ns , the stock turns over pretty quickly, with a combination of new vehicles coming in, and end of life vehicles being prepped for resale. I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
Liokault said:
Many many times as an automotive quality engineer I have had to do off site quality sweeps on stored cars.
What I find amazing is that they can't ever find the last few cars! Seriously, you have a compound with 1000's of cars in, each in a numbered bay, but even after half a day of driving up and down row after row of cars, the compound operators can't find the last 3 £60,000 Range Rovers!
The ones which have gone out the side gates and off to Russia, you mean?What I find amazing is that they can't ever find the last few cars! Seriously, you have a compound with 1000's of cars in, each in a numbered bay, but even after half a day of driving up and down row after row of cars, the compound operators can't find the last 3 £60,000 Range Rovers!
S11Steve said:
Sandtoft near Doncaster - it's a huge vehicle distribution compound for Lookers Group, and also a remarketing site for end of lease vehicles. It looks full in that picture, but much like Bruntingthorpe, https://goo.gl/maps/I9dRX , Immingham, https://goo.gl/maps/qd0Ey and Bedford https://goo.gl/maps/WY9Ns , the stock turns over pretty quickly, with a combination of new vehicles coming in, and end of life vehicles being prepped for resale.
Immingham again :-)gmasterfunk said:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=53.568...
I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
Trafford Centre on Black Friday.I have, in the past, wondered what's going on here?
G.
glasgowrob said:
just fyi recently bought the other half a new ford ecosport,
build date was something like the 6th march 2014 registered on a 15 plate on the 9th march 2015
so its been kicking about for over a year before being sold
What a stupid name. build date was something like the 6th march 2014 registered on a 15 plate on the 9th march 2015
so its been kicking about for over a year before being sold
EEKOBOOST spelt Ecoboost.
ECHOSPORT spelt Ecosport.
Not these days there isn't, a few years ago there used to be fields full of new cars. Manufacturers don't carry the levels of stock that they used to, and it's fairly rare that anything will be much older than 3 months or so old.
glasgowrob said:
just fyi recently bought the other half a new ford ecosport,
build date was something like the 6th march 2014 registered on a 15 plate on the 9th march 2015
so its been kicking about for over a year before being sold
Aren't these built in India or Brazil and have only just been launched over here? You'll lose a good few months in shipping for thembuild date was something like the 6th march 2014 registered on a 15 plate on the 9th march 2015
so its been kicking about for over a year before being sold
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