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Have seen the corby one and there's another near me. Thousands of cars of all ages are parked up at Alconbury.
When they did the scrappage scheme thousands of perfectly good (and some quite sort after) cars were parked up waiting to be broken up.
When they did the scrappage scheme thousands of perfectly good (and some quite sort after) cars were parked up waiting to be broken up.
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Most of the photos show places where new imported cars are delivered to after being shipped from overseas. Sheerness, Avonmouth etc. Don't see what the problem is?
Most of the photos show places where new imported cars are delivered to after being shipped from overseas. Sheerness, Avonmouth etc. Don't see what the problem is?
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Most manufacturers only build to order these days. Very little reason to park up loads of them.
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They're not parked up for long...back in '02 I spent a weekend down near Avon-mouth. In the morning road up to Bristol, went past one of the car parks full of shiny new un-registered cars, by teatime when we road back they'd gone. Following morning, lo and it's full of different cars...
As the riposte says, they're a photo, a snapshot in time, generally they don't spend long there because that costs money...
New car registrations in the UK last year were 2,264,737 [1]), that's over 6000 a day. They'll not all be coming into the UK from abroad, contrary to popular belief we do still have a car manufacturing industry in the UK, over 1,500,000 vehicles last year [2] with approx 1,200,000 being exported [3], so the images will not just be cars coming in, they'll be a whole load going out as well.
1. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2014/01/2013-new- ... ive-years/
2. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2014/01/uk-car-ma ... year-high/)
3. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2013/01/uk-car-ma ... s-in-2012/
They're not parked up for long...back in '02 I spent a weekend down near Avon-mouth. In the morning road up to Bristol, went past one of the car parks full of shiny new un-registered cars, by teatime when we road back they'd gone. Following morning, lo and it's full of different cars...
As the riposte says, they're a photo, a snapshot in time, generally they don't spend long there because that costs money...
New car registrations in the UK last year were 2,264,737 [1]), that's over 6000 a day. They'll not all be coming into the UK from abroad, contrary to popular belief we do still have a car manufacturing industry in the UK, over 1,500,000 vehicles last year [2] with approx 1,200,000 being exported [3], so the images will not just be cars coming in, they'll be a whole load going out as well.
1. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2014/01/2013-new- ... ive-years/
2. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2014/01/uk-car-ma ... year-high/)
3. http://www.smmt.co.uk/2013/01/uk-car-ma ... s-in-2012/
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yeah but its the inter-net so it must be tru
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Bloke I know at the local Ford/Mazda garage said new car sales are fine. This is backed up by the amount of no more then 3 year old motors on my street. As mentioned, most cars are made to order now.
Why do people feel the need to make stuff up?
Bloke I know at the local Ford/Mazda garage said new car sales are fine. This is backed up by the amount of no more then 3 year old motors on my street. As mentioned, most cars are made to order now.
Why do people feel the need to make stuff up?
