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crazy!
« on: May 31, 2015 - 08:34:17 PM »
 http://www.odometer.com/rides/10497/17-mind-blowing-pics-of-car-purgatories-where-thousands-of-unsold-vehicles-sit-idle#slide/0

Seriously, what do they do with them all?  Crush them? They can't possibly sell them all? They are all over the world. whacky.

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Re: crazy!
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2015 - 10:07:24 PM »
Honestly I don't know that those cars are just sitting idle.  Lots of plants produce over a 1,000 new cars a day, those cars get moved to huge storage facilities while they are awaiting rail cars to take them to their final destinations. Logistics will wait till their is a group of cars that are going to a similar area that can be loaded on the same car.  Back in 09 there was more cars getting built and shipped to storage waiting for dealers to accept orders as it is cheaper than shutting the plants down.
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Re: crazy!
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2015 - 10:41:08 PM »
I've never noticed how many cars were built in a day. I see a lot of cars shipped. I RR for a living, so I see a lot of these cars shipped.
I just never realized how many were stored off site and stored in an enviromnent this big.. Kinda crazy. When you look at the pics, you wonder how they can possibly sell
so many, and wonder were all the ones that don't sell go. Yeah, I get that there are bilions of people on this planet, but if they make this many overruns of cars EVERY YEAR, WHERE do they all go?
Crazy example of over producing. Thousands and thousands of cars sitting idle. Do they sell them all?

No one want's last years model. What do they do with them all? One would think that the extras would be going for dirt cheap, and that they would slow production down. One might be very wrong.
With this many cars on tap, I can't see how the industry supports it's HIGH prices. Cars have outpaced inflation and the average cost of living by double digits.

I remember back in 1979, seeing a Pontiac or something for $12,0000 dollars. I said to myself, no one would EVER pay that much for a car, that was more than a Corvette, at the time.
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Re: crazy!
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2015 - 10:50:37 PM »
Now some cars, and mostly pickups are higher priced than most peoples houses. You would think, that with this many cars parked and no buyers, that they would dump them dirt cheap.

I bet they crush them to keep the prices high.
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Re: crazy!
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2015 - 11:27:29 PM »
I don't think they are sitting new unused, I bet they are all sold. If you are in the Chicago area and are a railroader I bet there must be hundreds of thousands of auto go through that area.
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Re: crazy!
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2015 - 11:45:26 PM »
I saw a similar article a while back , turned if you check snopes they were not overproduced but awaiting shipping

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Re: crazy!
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2015 - 12:07:53 AM »
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Re: crazy!
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2015 - 01:05:57 AM »
OMG! No - not Chicago, ol. But the largest yard in the world. we do see some traffic here, lol. I don't deal with that. I just take them to and fro. I always wonder who is buying the new cars and pickups, as high priced as they are.
I drive a 1987 Suburban. I'm not out to impress anyone - and I am achieving my goals, big time, lol. I don't get it.
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