So, who's right?
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=1822000
Looks like it is the UK. But it looks like an Adessa or Manheimm auction on a day when there are a lot of fleet cars running through.
I'm calling shenanigans on it. I doubt that it is for real.
Here in Louisville we have two Ford plants. One happens to be for Escapes. I can usually tell when there is about to be an Escape recall because all the abandoned lots get temporary fencing and security guards. In a week they're full of Escapes and roving temp workers applying fixes. In a week or two they're gone. In some cases the fixes are all done before shipment and the recall never makes it to dealer level.
So all you need to make this article seem true is to take a picture at just the right time.
I remember one of those pictures from an article about hurricane sandy cars.
I remember reading about export cars sitting in large lots for a long period of time while awaiting sale or shipment overseas. Isn't that what these are?
Yeah, original article is totally wrong. Just a bunch of pictures from various circumstances, a lot of those are Sandy cars. Also, this:
Snopes said: One issue is that the author seems to be under the impression that Google Maps images are updated in real time.
I feel like I saw that same picture on Top Gear once when they were discussing the UK cash for clunkers on the news segment...
Given that an assembly plant can turn out as many as 1000 vehicles daily, and it's not unusual to have 15-20 days of inventory, seeing thousands of cars parked up shouldn't be a surprise.Happens all the time.
If you poke around that site a little bit, it's not exactly the Washington Post.
Car companies are in it for the money not for social benefits. Over-supply has been part of the game because the implusive nature of the auto purchase and long logistic lines. For most of company it is a balance of inventory cost vs loss sale. I think the article has some misconception about how market works.
This article went so far that even Jalopnik has debunked it now.
Neat chopper pad. 
That author has a fundamental misunderstanding of how Google Maps works. And, he's an idiot.
I thought new cars went to Mitsubishi Dealer Lots to die?
One of those pictures is just a Long Term Parking Lot at an airport. There is a shuttle bus and even a little heated waiting area. I LOVE people who write bullE36 M3 and call it news!
pinchvalve wrote: I thought new cars went to Mitsubishi Dealer Lots to die?
Bwahahahahah!
singleslammer wrote: One of those pictures is just a Long Term Parking Lot at an airport. There is a shuttle bus and even a little heated waiting area. I LOVE people who write bullE36 M3 and call it news!
Stop bringing facts into this.
Facts are meaningless. They can be used to prove anything. -Homer Simpson
ugh, wish they had posted this yesterday. I had to explain it to at least a dozen friends on facebook last night. People who consider themselves "car people" to boot. And a few who are just conspiracy theorists against big business, or the government, or whatever, and thought something nefarious was going on.
Stockpiles do happen. Quite often, but I know that I'm in a factory rich part of the country.
Sometimes it's a production problem, sometimes is a recall problem. Sometimes it's for a popular car and the factory is going on vacation in a week. Sometimes the factory needs to change over to a new car. The last one is usually the biggest one- they need to stockpile a few months of cars since it takes that long to change over. Especially when it's a huge change.
The Escape and Fusion went from a 4/6 cyl chassis to a 4 cyl only one. For two of the highest selling cars, lots of them needed to be stored up. Then they had issues... oops.
This is got to be BS. I am working for a car manufacturer that imports cars to the US for the dealers and there are thousands of cars in there lots down by the docks all the time but it is an ever revolving inventory that grows and shrinks. Also every ship that comes in full of new cars leaves full of used cars heading off to another port usually in south America. I could take a photo tomorrow down there and put some BS caption on it.
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