Impressive photos? The legend of the car graveyards.
Once again we receive inquiries about images we know. It's about photos of dusty cars and aerial photos of dozens of cars.
This is the article in question:

Hello, please clarify the following matter. I would be very interested to know what your point of view is on it. Please also provide the background to such procedures. Thanks
Impressive photos of the car graveyards for unsold cars
Who hasn't asked themselves what actually happens to the cars that have been left unsold as new cars for many years...
The fact check
Colleague Andre wrote in July 2017:
It's those images of large footprints that shock us and make us wonder what's going on in the auto industry. We have to look at these images in two steps, depending on their publication. Depending on how they are published and used, these images are sometimes not fake, but at other times they are a misrepresentation. But let's start with the first publication of these images in 2009.
The following applies here: the photos themselves are real. This is not manipulation in that sense. Many of these photos can be found in an article from the Guardian entitled “Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world” which describes the increase in new cars being dumped because they are not being sold. Very important: we are figuratively in the year 2009. When it comes to 2009, one should not forget that it was a year of recession [ 1 ][ 2 ]. The financial and economic crisis from the previous year had a clear impact, and exports also collapsed. And it was precisely at this time that the pictures of countless vehicles parked in large parking areas were taken.

So it's not all fake?
Well, there is a certain restriction on these images: they are for the year 2009 and the economic circumstances at the time. In this respect, they were not fake for this period. However, in 2014, “ Zero Hedge ” published an article that reused these exact images of the parked vehicles. And there you can read:
Timestamp: Friday, May 16th, 2014. There are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up…
There you will find pictures from 2009, but the content is dated as “today”. There are therefore 5 years between the pictures and the article. Those are 5 years in which a lot has happened and the economy has also recovered. Of course, the congestion of new cars that was seen in 2009 no longer existed to this extent in 2014, on the contrary: after years of problems, 2014 was considered a good year for the automotive industry [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]. This is exactly what the author of the article on “ Zero Hedge ” apparently noticed and noted in the article that at Nissan Sunderland, for example, all the vehicles pictured had disappeared.
However, he draws the wrong conclusion because he assumes a sudden removal and “recycling”:
UPDATE: Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared? Now I don't believe they have all suddenly been sold. I would guess they may have been taken away and recycled to make room for the next vast production run.
He continues to make the mistake of viewing the images from 2009 as “current” (i.e. valid for 2014). However, in this temporary context the images are not correct.
And now come the translations
The German translations pose a further problem (compare [ 6 ] [ 7 ]). These are specifically designed for entertainment and drama and are based on the Zero Hedge article. The content of each article has been shortened so much that even the year numbers no longer appear and the self-critical update cannot be seen. These articles only have a visual effect and build up a general scenario. The historical classification is simply missing and as a reader you get the impression that these images are current. However, the German translations refer to their base with the short indication “via: zerohedge.com ” . In this respect, they are already subject to the error in thought that arose with Zero Hedge. Therefore, the misrepresentation of Zero Hedge lives on to this day and has even gained its own momentum in German-speaking countries.
Apart from this
Yes, of course there are areas where new cars are parked. As buffer zones, for scheduling or actually for temporary parking. This is neither new nor generally due to an economic situation. These vehicles often end up selling below price or over allocations.
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