Unsold Car Images From Around The World
The Guardian has a series of 10 images about the Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world. I encourage you to click on the link to see them all. Here are a few of my favorites:
Nissan
has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200. Thousands
of unsold cars are stored around the factory's test track. Photograph:
Nigel Roddis/Reuters
Several of the images are very artistic such as the third one above (Newark). It was tough to make a selection.
Imported cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers
Photograph: David Goddard/Getty
The build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark, New Jersey
Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP
Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach, California. Photograph: David McNew/Getty
Here are some related articles.Nissan cuts send shockwaves across north-east
"Everyone knows someone who works at Nissan," says Elaine Thoms, and she speaks for the whole of Washington and plenty of Wearside towns beyond.Honda to extend shut-down at Swindon plant
Fallout from job cuts at the carmaker, which is shedding a quarter of its 4,900 workforce, is rippling from the factory overlooking Sunderland across the whole of north-east England.
"My dad was one of the first to go," says Elaine. "He's one of the ones who left before Christmas at Unipress [Nissan's instrument panel supplier, which announced 90 further job cuts on Tuesday]. He thought he'd do best to get out early and find something else. But no one's taking on."
Friday 16 January 2009 12.48 GMT
Honda said this morning it was halting production at its Swindon plant in April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to four months.
The company said in November that it would halt production in February and March, with 4,800 workers receiving full basic pay.
Today the company said that because of the continuing fall in demand it was extending the closure, with workers getting 50% of their pay.
Honda's move adds to the deepening gloom in the UK car industry. Nissan has announced plans to cut its Sunderland workforce by 1,200 people, and earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover said 450 jobs would go.
US car workers protest against wage cuts at glitzy launch
Car workers vented their anger at bearing the brunt of swinging cutbacks as the world's top manufacturers orchestrated glitzy launches of eco-friendly vehicles at Detroit's motor show.
Noisy protesters blamed Wall Street's excesses for the credit crunch, which has frozen up car loans to consumers, leaving showrooms bereft of customers. Workers carried banners with messages such as "Cutting wages won't solve Detroit's crisis".
Negotiations with the United Auto Workers' union began this week. Ford is also seeking cuts, although it has not received a government loan, on the grounds that it needs parity with its rivals.
Toyota tells managers to buy one of its own cars
UAW Backs Idea of 'Car Czar'More than 2,000 managers at Toyota have been "encouraged" to buy one of the firm's cars in an attempt to boost morale, as Japan's biggest carmaker braces itself for its first operating loss in more than 70 years.
The company said its 2,200 general managers had agreed to the unprecedented move at informal meetings last month, and insisted they would not be coerced into buying Toyota cars or punished if they failed to do so.
"This is not company policy and in no way mandatory, but more of a form of unofficial encouragement," Toyota spokeswoman Ririko Takeuchi told the Guardian.
Even if every manager heeds the latest call to arms, it is unlikely to make much of a dent in Toyota's inventory. Faced with a soaring yen and a collapse in the export market, Toyota is laying off 3,000 temporary workers and closing all 12 of its domestic plants for 11 days in February and March, reducing production by as many as 200,000 vehicles.
The head of the United Auto Workers union said Monday that he would like the government to appoint a "car czar" who "knows something about the auto industry" to oversee the restructuring of the Big Three.In related news, union representative Iam A. Fox was quoted as saying he backed the idea of putting a chicken expert in charge of security at the henhouse.
On the sidelines of the Detroit auto show, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said he doesn't favor putting a Wall Street expert in the post.
History Repeats At Cadillac
Three months after the 1929 stock-market crash, Cadillac premiered at the New York auto show its Series 452 with a 185-horsepower V-16 engine designed to trump chief rival Packard's V-12.No Choice? What kind of statement is that? Of course GM has a choice. GM has a history of making choices, most of them horrible: ResCap, not dumping GMAC, not dumping the Hummer on time, launching the Saturn line which has never had a profitable year in its entire history, caving in to ridiculous union demand the worst of which was granting 90% pay for laid off workers, too many models in general, etc.
Fast-forward almost 80 years: Cadillac is ready for another flagship, perhaps something along the lines of the gorgeous Sixteen concept that was first shown in 2003. Except, once again, the economy isn't ready. Worse, once-mighty GM doesn't even have the money to spend on such a project -- it's got Chevy Volts and Cruzes that badly need building.
All this explains why GM is taking a bigger gamble now than it did in 1929 and launching up to 10 new Cadillacs in the next five years. But it has no choice. The future of American luxury is at stake.
Who cares if GM never produces another luxury car? Hardly anyone buys them anyway. With GM's new lease on life at taxpayer expense, it ought to figure out how to do one thing right rather than attempt to do 100 things, and get all of them wrong.
Auto Prices About To Crash
With unsold cars stacking up by the day, demand falling faster, and bailout silliness getting sillier, I have three easy to make predictions.
1) Hundreds of dealerships are headed for bankruptcy in 2009
2) The Fed Is Destined To Become World's Largest Auto Dealership
3) Cars are going to get cheaper, much cheaper. Auto prices will crash. Liquidation sales later this year after the 2010 models come out are going to be fabulous.
It makes no sense to buy a car now, no matter how good the deal looks. The deals will get progressively better as the year rolls on.
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Sad these much car are unsold.Brilliant pic.
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Thanks for an excellent post about the state of the car industry. by the time this lot of cars are sold they will need!
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It's just the cycle of things, really - free market forces let us down, so the government takes over. When things stabilize and people get sick of the monopoly, there's deregulation. The government can't do every job in the country, anyway - imagine our tax burden if that was the case. Sounds like a certain word beginning 'C', to me ... besides, for every down there is an up. With more older cars about on the roads, the spare parts, repairs and car service businesses are seeing more customers. Small consolation to the workers losing their jobs, I know, but goes towards overall balance.
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What a lot of change needs to come to America to help keep ourselves and our economy healthy. I think we just need to be open-minded and selfless enough to realize that for every down, there is an up somewhere ... as car service providers and manufacturers have to slow down production and downsize, there will soon be an equal pickup in another industry. Hopefully its in renewable technology, or hopefully enough people buy a Prius that Toyota is able to hire all of GM and Ford's ex-employees!
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That is powerful stuff when you see all those cars sitting there not likely to be sold. So much money gone to waste and so many jobs lost. I've often wondered what happened to the cars that are made and don't get sold. Working in car insurance quotes is not the same but it could be said that less cars on the road then less cars that need insurance. It comes back down the line to everyone in the end. Hopefully things will be on the upswing again soon.
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Oh my gosh - those photos actually made me physically sick. They really bring it home, don't they? I think Toyota has a moral problem, more I hear about them. And as for the rest - I think the whole "green" movement is hurting their brains. No one wants a car that only a midget fits in, can go only 100 miles before recharging, or is flattened like a pancake when a motorcycle hits it. I have four dogs - big ones - so give me a pickup that is fuel efficient or don't waste my time.
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This is a very sad state of affairs, it not only effects the car manufacturers but also many small business owners that rely on this industry. I for one make a living from servicing cars and so do many of my friends.
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I understand why governments would put tax payers money into industry as it employs a great number of citezens, however when a car manufacturer makes terrible decisions then this needs to be questioned.
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I've never seen so many cars in my entire life. Don't they have an approximate number if how many vehicles should be made? I hope they'll find a proper way of dealing with this, because it's a waste of space and money.
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It's funny that the 2,000 managers of Toyota were "encouraged" to each buy a car for boosting the morale. How good did they feel when they were making thousands of cars and why didn't they think something like this would happen? Overconfidence isn't always the best attitude.
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Yes, "encouraged" is a nice euphemism for "forced to buy, because if they wouldn't have, they would have lost everything". Talk about the shopping of your life, eh? All in all, I do hope Toyota will hearken back again, it's a great brand.
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Are there so many new drivers as many manufactured cars are presented here? I don't think so, even if we were to absurdly think that they would only buy Toyota vehicles, I think there would still be some left. It's like that song the Siamese cats from "Lady and the Tramp" sang: "There will be a head for you, a tail for me".
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These cars could easily make a town of their own, where no people are alive. I never understood mass production without realistic data. Maybe Toyota will now learn that not everyone was born loving them.
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I don't know anybody who works at Nissan, but I would surely like to ask him how come there are so many built cars, I wonder if they ever managed to sell all the production. Nowadays people are more interested in electric and hybrid vehicles and soon enough these will be the only types of cars we will be looking for.
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At least Nissan made a nice image out of the unsold cars. I'm sure the aliens are content with the image. Therefore, of all, I believe Nissan is the only one that has a change of going further.
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I find it so sad when it comes to cutting budgets. It shouldn't be just a matter of business, of statistics, it should be thought as a place that offers people jobs. Those poor men have families to feed, too.
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The picture David McNew/Getty took on Toyota's 150-acre of unsold cars is absolutely stunning. Its black and white view and the sharp edges give a feeling of senescence, of poorness. It really catches the company's impotence.
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I also feel overwhelmed when I look at David McNew/Getty's picture. There's just something about it that reminds me of old posters with smiling women and men with hats on being ready to drive. I wonder if this is what he meant to capture.
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I knew the Guardian was a good newspaper, but this blew my mind. What are so many cars doing in one place, shouldn't they think that because of the recession, people will rather climb on a bike than buy a new car? I wonder what happened to them or if they continued to build new ones.
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