This is rather staggering...

[Empty Pockets]

...and supposedly Photoshop wasn't used...

http://www.vincelewis.net/unsoldcars.html

 

[jaxgt]

I'm no expert, but looks a bit fake to me

 

[viva gt]

Wow

 

[Gierkink]

Most of pictures are of Shelby's Ford GT inventory. He's selling them slowly to keep values up.

 

[GTJack]

When I lived in Houston I used to commute by a huge, huge area packed with new cars, mostly foreign imports. It was a staging area for cars coming off the ships and putting them on trains and trucks for delivery. Had a lot of turnover there. Some of these shots could be similar areas in other locations. It looks like the majority of the shots are of Japanese vehicles.

 

[RALPHIE]

Since the '80s and '90s, and often recently, the Japanese have been known to "dump" cars into the US and other countries and sell them below margins -

http://petemurphy.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/toyota-dumping-cars-on-us-market/

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/21/business/japan-car-makers-on-dumping.html

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-20/business/fi-283_1_japanese-auto

http://www.autonews.com/article/201...hondas-losses-on-u.s.-exports-suggest-dumping

http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0219/fdump.html

http://www.sundaymail.co.zw/?p=2481

 

[jaxgt]

I'd be happy to take a new Landcruiser below margin, but don't see that happening for that model.

Since the '80s and '90s, and often recently, the Japanese have been known to "dump" cars into the US and other countries and sell them below margins -

http://petemurphy.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/toyota-dumping-cars-on-us-market/

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/21/business/japan-car-makers-on-dumping.html

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-20/business/fi-283_1_japanese-auto

http://www.autonews.com/article/201...hondas-losses-on-u.s.-exports-suggest-dumping

http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0219/fdump.html

http://www.sundaymail.co.zw/?p=2481

 

[dbk]

"The problem with the internet is that you can't always depend on its accuracy."

- Abraham Lincoln, 1864

 

[Superfly]

^^^^^ Hahaha Dave. That's a brilliant "quote".

 

[ROCK]

Blondie said back in 1981 (Rapture) that the man from Mars would come and he would eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercuries and Subarus....

 

[zach05855]

Hoax..

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/Unsold-Cars.htm#.U3URN_ldV8E

 

[junior]

Forget the internet, just drive down the 710 freeway to the port of L A or Long Beach in So. Cal, huge lots filled with new cars of different makes and models.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Hoax..

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/Unsold-Cars.htm#.U3URN_ldV8E

"This eRumor is false because it uses photos that were taken shortly after the global economic meltdown in 2008."

Huh? No, no, no, no, no...sorry. If a rumor is "false", it's FALSE...as in 'untrue', as in 'it never happened'. Evidently the photos are legit because 2-3 pargraphs later the author says:

"All the photos that accompany this blog were taken in the early months of 2009, shortly after the global economic crisis struck in September 2008."

So, regardless of when the photos were taken, they're still staggering...unless Photoshop played a hand in them...which supposedly is not the case.

 

[dbk]

The whole point of the linked page is to prove that there is a conspiracy that is resulting in endless swaths of unsold cars. I'm pretty sure that's the "eRumor" being deemed false, not the image.

It's pretty easy to come up with huge swaths of land covered in cars. Train depots, loading docks, factory loading stations.

Also, this happens from time to time from natural disasters. Airfield full of cars nuked by Hurrican Sandy.

 

[Empty Pockets]

'Twas the the photos I found to be "staggering".

'Guess I should have been more precise about that...:willy

 

[FENZO]

Airfield full of cars nuked by Hurrican Sandy.

What's not cool about this photo are the giant fork trucks apparently being used to queue the cars. What is cool is that cars are the worlds most recycled product (read that on popular science).