It’s a hoax.
2. What IS the explanatio for these huge stockpiles? Tempoarary storage before being shipped out, photoshop, something else?
FEMA death cars!!!
Indeed. What authority? Okay, how about non-scientific just watching things as they occur? There is a word for this, what is it? Starts with an A? Something that is commonly experienced.
Well, I tend to believe there is an over-production of these vehicles, that they continue to be over-produced and if that makes me uninformed, I would appreciate someone remedying my condition with hard data to support the opposite.
Ahhhhhh... The Alzheimers just cleared and the sun came out. ANECDOTAL.
Sometimes the anecdotal is correct.
A lot of these pics are the same ones that were posted in other articles around 2008-2009. This one was pretty thoroughly picked apart at zerohedge yesterday. And if the doomer porn site is calling bulls*** on a gloomy story like this, it probably bulls***.
Or Let me Google 'unsold cars hoax' for you.
Most of the photos are about five years old and were taken during the middle of the post-recession Carpocalypse. The problem was fixed four or five years ago. (From Zero Hedge: UPDATE: Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared?)
The Zero Hedge author doesn't understand how cars are made. They aren't made as ordered. They're made in bulk and shipped in bulk to areas where they will be sold. The Avonmouth photo is within 200 miles of a population of 45 million consumers and handles roughly 700,000 vehicles per year. The manufacturers don't just ship cars there as needed. Cars are shipped to dealers from this inventory as needed. "In the same port you might find containers full of iPhones and iPads. That doesn't mean there are millions of unsold iPads and iPhones, that's just how almost all manufacturing has worked through all of history"
The Zero Hedge author doesn't understand how Google Maps work. On the average, photos are one to three years old. That photo of three-year-old cars may be a three-year-old photo at the time it was used in a five-year-old article.
The author doesn't understand how cars age. A two-year-old car has to be trashed because it's sat, undriven for two years?
Automakers try to keep inventory levels at between 60 and 65 days supply. With the harsh winter, it soared to 76 days this March, and was back down to 69 days in May. Domestic automakers are doing worse, but none as bad as GM. GM's inventory was 114 days as of February 1.
Or Let me Google 'unsold cars hoax' for you.
Most of the photos are about five years old and were taken during the middle of the post-recession Carpocalypse. The problem was fixed four or five years ago. (From Zero Hedge: UPDATE: Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared?)
The Zero Hedge author doesn't understand how cars are made. They aren't made as ordered. They're made in bulk and shipped in bulk to areas where they will be sold. The Avonmouth photo is within 200 miles of a population of 45 million consumers and handles roughly 700,000 vehicles per year. The manufacturers don't just ship cars there as needed. Cars are shipped to dealers from this inventory as needed. "In the same port you might find containers full of iPhones and iPads. That doesn't mean there are millions of unsold iPads and iPhones, that's just how almost all manufacturing has worked through all of history"
The Zero Hedge author doesn't understand how Google Maps work. On the average, photos are one to three years old. That photo of three-year-old cars may be a three-year-old photo at the time it was used in a five-year-old article.
The author doesn't understand how cars age. A two-year-old car has to be trashed because it's sat, undriven for two years?
Automakers try to keep inventory levels at between 60 and 65 days supply. With the harsh winter, it soared to 76 days this March, and was back down to 69 days in May. Domestic automakers are doing worse, but none as bad as GM. GM's inventory was 114 days as of February 1.