Hi there! It`s insane how many cars car makers
produce every year! Each year they try very hard to make as much cars as possible for
dealerships to sell. But it rarely happens that all the cars get
sold. Just think about it: over the last year car makers produced more that 95 million cars.
It`s very unlikely that all those vehicles will find their owners. If you wanna know
what happens to brand new unsold models, don’t go away because we re about to get started.
It seems like a common thing these days that cars don`t get sold. And it`s not surprising
because most people prefer to buy second hand cars where they can find many interesting
offers these days. That is the main reason why car dealerships struggle selling new models.
You could say they should sell them at a lower price or give them away for free. But they
never do that and there are a few reasons for that.
Manufacturers can`t afford to lose money from sales. Reduced price will ultimately decrease
sales volume of the newest, more expensive models. This undermines the whole system you
see. You can`t sell new stuff until you deal with the previous versions. It`s very hard
to keep going like that because new cars appear every year.
So what do they do with all those unsold cars? They take all the cars they didn`t sell over
the years and they just store them outside with other cars that weren`t sold. There are
special places for cars like that. Huge outdoor parkings that store thousands of cars. So
what do they do with those cars exactly? It`s a real shame to just leave them out like that,
isn`t it?
Some of those who work at the factory can ask their supervisors to buy the car at a
lower price. Sometimes it works. Also, it sometimes happens so that the car gets sold
at it`s initial cost but buyers get some bonuses. Things like winter tires, free 1-year maintenance
subscription, little things like that. Although most cars just rest outside getting all rusty
each day.
Most countries have these so-called car cemeteries. When you see things like this it makes you
realize that something is definitely wrong with the current economic system.
.Have a look at this. This is a car cemetery near one of the Nissan factories. Just look
at all those cars! You`d think it d be logical to put them all on sale but this never ever
happens. And that`s all because they want to sell newer stuff to keep the darn conveyer
going. Car makers are forces to buy more land to store new cars. The whole thing seems so
ridiculous and illogical, there’s no proper way of putting it.
But companies just don`t seem to be able to stop this nonsense. Because if they stop,
the production will stop if production stops, thousands of people will lose their jobs.
It will cause domino effect - steel mills will go bankrupt, many development spots will
be forced to stop operating.
. Right now you see thousands of unsold cars in Shirness, a little place in UK.
. And this is a large car park in Swindon. Now there are a lot of cars but people don`t
buy them. Tens of thousands of cars are being made every week and it`s been like that for
a while now. In highly developed countries, a family usually has at list one car. So why
would anybody need more? Because it`s much cheaper and easier to fix your car when something
goes wrong instead of buying a brand new one.
.Now look at this. 57 000 cars waiting to be shipped from Baltimore in Maryland.
.And this is a rather big landing strip car park near Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Thousands
of cars brought from Europe wait for no one. It supposed to be an airport but now it turned
into something else. Unfortunately, there seems to be no real solution for the problem
of this caliber. So basically, some cars get made just to spend some time at the parking
lot. Now, maybe some families buy different cars every year but most people prefer to
use what they have. This is real footage by the way, this whole thing is real, it`s no
joke. These cars are there forever and there ll be plenty more.
.And this is a small portion of a giant aouto park in Spain where tens of thousands of cars
rest under the sun.
.Thousands of unsold cars in Upper Hayward, Oxfordshire. No room to swing a cat.
.Brand new Citroen vehicles in Corby, England. Cars come here from France every day. Once
they get here they have nowhere to go.
.Parking spot in Valencia, Spain. This colorful bunch is here to stay. Perhaps until the day
they ll turn into dust.
.A place where they keep the brand new Toyota cars. 60 hectare place in Long Beach, California.
.And this is a special place for Ford cars in Detroit.
.Here is a sight of Rover 75`s collecting dust in some warehouse in China.
.Brand new Land Rover Freelanders, waiting to be shipped from Liverpool.
.Thousands of Honda vehicles in Tokyo. Don`t you wish you could just grab them?
Looks like all those cars are stuck there forever. But there must be some kind of solution
to this weird problem.
So how people should deal with this stuff? The situation gets worse every day and it
feels like there’s no stop to that. Car makers always bring out new cars, using all
types of modern technology. The market is solemnly focused on selling newer models.
And the further this happens, the lesser chance older cars have to be sold. Ultimately, all
those cars will end up at the scrap dump. Seems like there s no way around that.
Some major companies like General Motors and Cadillac started producing in China. Right
now there are so many car graveyards out there it’s hard to believe it’s true.
Have you guys ever thought what happens to planes that go out of service?
Every plane will take off one day to land for the last time. Unfortunately, planes don`t
live too long. Born to fly, they get sad when they can`t do it anymore. They miss the sky.
Their fate is very similar to what happens to unsold cars.
There are many plane graveyards out there, where you can find rarities as well as brand
new planes of the 20th century.
Now I would like to show you some pretty strange places we call plane graveyards. This is where
planes go when they can`t fly anymore.
1. Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is a Air force Base not far from Tucson, Arizona. It
is the most expensive plane graveyard in the world.
It`s a 6500 hectare wide establishment where 40 space ships and over 4000 aircrafts reside.
Some of those planes are out there just for the time being. It`s sort of bit like free
parking for some planes. Experts say that the total cost of the area with all its vehicles
is 35 billion dollars. It`s where they came to shoot “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”.
2. Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. Located 80 km east of Bakersfield, it is one
of the largest facilities where they keep abandoned planes and plane scrap. Most planes
are getting ready to be smashed. They usually have no wings or their motor is missing.
3. Victorville, CA, USA, Commercial Aircraft at Southern California Logistics Airport.
In this area they allow film maker shoot their movies and TV series. This place is popular
with both plane geeks and movie lovers. For a reasonable amount of money you can go see
that place.
4. Pinal Airpark in the town of Marana in Arizona, US.
The main purpose of this facility is being a storage for abandoned commercial airliners.
Locals say that it`s a place where all retired boings go. They have over 840 hectares of
land out there.
5. Abandoned helicopter cemetery in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
It`s been 30 years since the dreadful day happened. Abandoned homes, empty streets and
hospitals indicate that this place is done. Most of the vehicles that were used to clean
up the area went out of service and were left right there. These helicopters will never
fly again. Their remains are radioactive.
6. Khodynsky field aircraft cemetery. Frunze Central Aerodrome in Moscow.
It was build over 100 years ago and it is currently abandoned. The last plane took off
from this airfield on July 3 in 2003. It was IL-28SD intended for the Indian Navy forces.
After that, the place was closed out. But some planes and helicopters are still there.
They wanted to turn that place into a museum but something went wrong and the place turned
into a cemetery.
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