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, click this link and see for yourself: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/where-worlds-unsold-cars-go-die
Just so everyone knows the last image is from 2010, and isn't of new unsold cars. It's old cars waiting to be scrapped as part of the UK's version of cash for clunkers. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263548/Now-did-say-left-car-The-28m-backlog-perfectly-driveable-vehicles-waiting-SCRAPPED.html
So the article's argument is that car companies make tons of cars to not sell them? Riiiight. http://jalopnik.com/that-zero-hedge-article-on-unsold-cars-is-bullshit-1578124255
Crazy stuff. Why are they left to rust though rather than broken down and have their metal/components recycled? Would be orders of magnitude more efficient than digging the stuff out of the ground again.
If this were true, they'd ship them to a third world country and sell them for a pittance. The idea that they'd rather let them rust than bottom out an underperforming market overseas is silly.
Written by somebody who doesn't know how auto manufacturing works. Of those pics that aren't of massive scrappage schemes, a lot of them are flood inventory ahead of launches. They aren't going unsold, they're building up a big supply for the roll-out of the new model year. It's as though the author thinks automakers normal rolled cars out and shipped them one at a time...