Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die

In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers, better known as "channel stuffing", of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory at dealer lots just hit a new record high. But did you know that when it comes to flat or declining sales and stagnant end demand, channel stuffing is merely the beginning?

Presenting...

Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die (courtesy of Vincent Lewis' Unsold Cars)

Above is just a few of the thousands upon thousands of unsold cars at Sheerness, United Kingdom. Please do see this on Google Maps....type in Sheerness, United Kingdom. Look to the west coast, below River Thames next to River Medway. Left of A249, Brielle Way.

Timestamp: Friday, May 16th, 2014.

There are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up...

THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE

Houston...We have a problem!...Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world. There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained.

Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line.

There is proof that the worlds recession is still biting and wont let go. All around the world there are huge stockpiles of unsold cars and they are being added to every day. They have run out of space to park all of these brand new unsold cars and are having to buy acres and acres of land to store them.

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Comment by Ron Anderson on May 29, 2014 at 1:51pm: Those cars in the photo are waiting to be given away for free to all the friendly immigrants that are flooding the UK.

Comment by Nikki on May 19, 2014 at 9:18pm: It's a huge waste of resources, land and labor. They pretend the cars are being sold to make it appear the recession is over. It's just insanity to produce these cars and then let them sit on a lot and deteriorate. Something to think about the next time we have to pay those mechanics fees to keep our old clunkers running.

Comment by Tara on May 19, 2014 at 10:21am: I don't know of too many people that can actually afford to buy new cars these days. The prices are so hyper-inflated an unaffordable to the majority of American's and people around the world. So the question is, why haven't the major car makers/companies went under already and why are they still mass producing these unaffordable automobiles? It's such a waste!