Tucson Used Car

Q.My friend and I had a couple of brews and got into a conversation of what happens to unsold cars. Robert Heinlein wrote a story called "Door Into Summer" where a man gets frozen and is woken 30 years later. He gets a job crushing up cars...basically car bodies without motors the car mfgs made....cars made for makework. I doubt we are in that economic model in that story. Is there a place in the plains, like a huge car graveyard, where the unsold models go? Something like the mothballed aircraft in Tucson? People buy new cars or used cars...but in this case a 2006 car amoung 2008 models that hasn't been sold is not new (or considered new) and it is not used.

A.If you visit some used car dealers, you'll discover there are a certain percentage of them that have some unusually new cars that appear to have no collision damage or significant mileage. Those are the unsold ones. The used cars dealers picked them up cheap at auction. It's part of the reason the domestics are in trouble. Honda and Toyota can't even keep them on the lot, much less have to make them sit in "sales banks". Thing is, for situations like you describe, "if the price is low enough" frequently also means "And now up for bid is lot number 1704 - a total of 417 assorted new and/or test-driven 2006 model Chevys returned from dealer lots around the country. As usual, buyer is responsible for all shipping to his desired destination, and the lot goes as a single unit only - hope you brought your fleet of car-carriers, or a whole bunch of drivers, boys! Now, who'll start the bidding at 30 grand?" (Ever wonder how you can sometimes go to a used car lot, and without there being any "hanky-panky", get a car that's only got like 3K on the odometer? That 3K probably came from being driven from auction to auction until the used lot got it, then to the lot.)

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