What happens to new unsold cars!

[Wheatley173]

Just come across this

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-wor...

Quite interesting to see how many cars sit rotting away with no likely hood of ever being sold

[nagsheadwarrior]

What a load of bks.

New cars found at car factory or port shock, must be a conspiracy!

If this was posted in a tongue in cheek manner, apologies, I'll collect my Parrot on the way out.

Edited by nagsheadwarrior on Sunday 18th May 22:41

[DrDeAtH]

Silly really, the manufacturers could bang them out for a few hundred quid over cost rather than crush them after 2 years

[TallPaul]

Dont believe everything you see on the internet! Some of those are fleet refurb centres where they're waiting repairs/ being stored after coming off lease. Some are import docks where they're stored until they get delivered to dealers and some are just being stored before the new registrations.

[mattshiz]

I thought most cars were made to order now. Guess your C1/Micra type cars with only a few trim levels will be produced before a sale has been made.

[NicheMonkey]

I've worked in a few car factories where they knock out non descript hardbacks and saloons of the Japanese variety and its common practice this, not every car is built to order and they do end up sitting in a yard for months and months getting shat on by seagulls and never washed with flat batteries flat tyres in general bad state really if they do get sold they stick a new battery on some new tyres give it a wash and hey pesto it's a brand new car lol I saw a car like this that was sat for 18 months... And they did the above and sold it as new

[Wheatley173]

TallPaul said:

Dont believe everything you see on the internet! Some of those are fleet refurb centres where they're waiting repairs/ being stored after coming off lease. Some are import docks where they're stored until they get delivered to dealers and some are just being stored before the
new registrations.

That's probably true. Quite impressive to see so many cars lined up like that, expecialy. One round testing tracks

[Roo]

Wheatley173 said:

Just come across this

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-wor...

Quite interesting to see how many cars sit rotting away with no likely hood of ever being sold

Did you read it here first?

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Debaser]

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Most of those cars won't have been parked like that for long, and they won't have been 'recycled'.

[DUMBO100]

My brother owns a car valeting company that often offer services to franchised dealerships. A few years ago he received a call asking if he would valet 30 or so Chrysler Neons which had been sat at a port somewhere for 2 years. The cars were in pretty bad condition due to the salty sea air and the main issues were perished window seals, seized brake callipers and corroded discs and ineffective air conditioning. The cars were brand new but were sold for £9995 as they were out of model year for registration

[Riley Blue]

Stories like this have been circulating since the 1970s when Fiat was said to have stored cars in a field in Ireland where it was so wet and the the grass was so long that the floors fell out. No photos, it was in pre-internet days.

[Blown2CV]

The article is horse ste. They are just storage and distribution compounds. The fact that they are there makes no statement about turnover. The tosser of a conspiracy theorist who wrote the article has no idea the volume of vehicles that pass through the car industry supply chain, and makes the childish assumption that because he can see a lot, they are always sat there. This article was posted on Facebook by a conspiracy theory enthusiast acquaintance of mine recently, and an argument ensued.

[k-ink]

Maybe if you are mad enough to order a brand new car make sure it has a quirky spec to ensure it is not already two years old!

[Dave Hedgehog]

k-ink said:

Maybe if you are mad enough to order a brand new car make sure it has a quirky spec to ensure it is not already two years old!

buy German, most are made to order anyway


and the article is bks and untrue

[Johnnytheboy]

I went to an airfield near Oxford in about 2004 and it was stuffed with MGs/Rovers.

I knew then the end was nigh for MG Rover.

[aw51 121565]

Johnnytheboy said:

I went to an airfield near Oxford in about 2004 and it was stuffed with MGs/Rovers.

I knew then the end was nigh for MG Rover.

You could travel back in time to the early '80s and say the same about Maestros & Montegos being stockpiled; or the later '80s and say the same about Rover 800s. Or...

Moving away from MG Rover and its predecessors, you could use yur time machine to visit the site of the recently demolished Shoreham Power Station in the early '90s and see many hundreds of Peugeot 309s being soaked in sea water at many high tides and showing proper rust on wheels, brake discs and exhaust systems.

Repeat and rinse regularly over probably most of the life of the automomile .