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Guardian.co.uk: Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world

Carmakers around the world are cutting production as inventories build up to unprecedented levels. Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps.”

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“Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol, UK.”

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“Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution centre in Long Beach, California.”

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“New cars jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain.”

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This was written by Anne Galloway. Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009, at 12:57. Filed under Economics, Material culture, Mobilities, Production & consumption. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Andrew wrote:

    “3000 cars abandoned at Dubai airport”

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 00:35 | Permalink
  2. Tom Hanson wrote:

    I live quite close to Avonmouth Docks, and tbh that is a suprisingly small amount of cars compared to the amouth there normally is.

    There is normally no space… at all!

    Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 20:08 | Permalink