Unsold Cars Due To Global Recession
Automakers are facing trouble across the world due to global recession. Thousands of unsold cars are parked in factories and wharehouses waiting for delivery to customers and dealers.
Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year-low and production of cars at Honda in Swindon has been halted for a unprecedented four-month period because of the collapse in global sales and represents the longest continuous halt in production at any UK car plant. The announcement comes on a day when the EU’s Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen warned the outlook for the European car industry was ‘brutal’ and predicted not all European manufacturers would survive the crisis.
Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo.
Jaguar cars awaiting delievery.
The open car storage areas in Corby , Northamptonshire, are reaching full capacity
Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers.
Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach , California
The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark , New Jersey.
Stocks of Ford trucks in Detroit , Michigan
New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain
Peugeot cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia.
Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol
Thousands of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire
wow!! I would like to have one of these.
wow!.I like IT. cool!
Why are they still producing cars if no one has the money to buy them at the earlier levels?
Maybe people are finally realizing that you don’t have to buy a new car every year when a new model comes out; you can keep using your existing one (and of course manufacturers cannot just design them to die after a year since people would be in an uproar). It’s bad enough people throw out or horde perfectly good computers and phones to get newer ones, but at least those are much, much smaller than cars.
What kind of cars are in Hondas in Tokyo?
hmmm.. i wonder what kind of security some of these storage places have? why arent anyone boosting these cars
there are shitloads of them so i doubt that anyone would even miss some of them gone… plus they are bleeding millions anyway just by having them stand there and rust. so i guess having some of them gone wound be an upside, they could probably get insurance for that and begin producing more.. Or they could organize some kind of discount auctions or someting… or maybe some promotion thing where they could excange older used cars + some playment for newer models, and just recycle the older ones…
Is this really ‘Just In Time’ modern production scheduling, I think they need some decent training and yes these cars need to be auctioned off or adapted for handicapped people who have little or no transport and where’s the government intervention? ……..checking their expenses?