OMG - Rockingham Race Circuit's never had so many cars.

[Scooby_Doo]

BBC news Northampton website with aerial views of unsold cars parked on the circuit, all seem to be registered.

 

[Atavus]

They have been doing that for ages. It’s what they bought it for in 2018.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

50,000 cars. And still car dealers can't be asked to give the service history of the cars they sell

Covid19 lending to the car industry: why not just tie cash up in depreciating assets ?

Covid-19: Thousands of unwanted vehicles stored at Rockingham

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Most of them are Vauxhalls, new Corsas especially , all with number plates.

 

[whitenemesis]

Most of them are Vauxhalls, new Corsas especially , all with number plates.

Pre-registered, so the dealers get their commission on sales from the manufacturer? Then sold on as "used", probably to fleet operators, at a discount

 

[sgregory124]

Most of them are Vauxhalls, new Corsas especially , all with number plates.

This fact alone is reason enough to nuke the entire site from orbit - just to be sure.

 

[Teego]

Pre-registering also improves the manufacturers' market share statistics. I'd guess that Ford are pre-registering lots of Fiestas to stay ahead of the Corsa.

 

[Trickythemerc]

Bloody hell that's one heck of a starting grid.......... There will be some pushing and shoving into the first corner.............

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

MB is no stranger to using old airports for storage.

Remember that story a couple of years ago about quality problems at Tucaloosa ?

Got a 2019/20 SUV - like my neighbour, check these 9,000 vehicles out. Chances are that your vehicle spent a while here....

Why is Mercedes-Benz storing these brand-new cars on an airport runway?

 

[Trickythemerc]

On my way back from Hull today I noticed that the new vehicles that are normally parked up by the side of the 62 have gone ?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

MB is no stranger to using old airports for storage.

Remember that story a couple of years ago about quality problems at Tucaloosa ?

Got a 2019/20 SUV - like my neighbour, check these 9,000 vehicles out. Chances are that your vehicle spent a while here....

Why is Mercedes-Benz storing these brand-new cars on an airport runway?

R-Class tastic!

 

[Darrell]

There’s one like that in Cambridgeshire somewhere. It’s an old airbase which is chock full of VAG products including Bentleys. I couldn’t quite get my head around it.

We used it in June 2019 for a drink stop on the Tour Of Cambridge cycle ride. I did start a thread on here at the time.

I think it was Alconbury.

 

[Darrell]

Audi’s by the thousands | General Discussion

I took part in the Tour of Cambridgeshire on Sunday and the 1st stop was at (I think) USAF Alconbury. It’s a disused airbase and full of many different types of businesses, one of them is obviously an Audi dealer. I’ve never seen so many Audi’s just sitting there, 1000s of them. Most of them...

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[Scooby_Doo]

There’s one like that in Cambridgeshire somewhere. It’s an old airbase which is chock full of VAG products including Bentleys. I couldn’t quite get my head around it.

We used it in June 2019 for a drink stop on the Tour Of Cambridge cycle ride. I did start a thread on here at the time.

I think it was Alconbury.

USAF Alconbury as was. I was a chain boy for a surveying company back in the late 60's and we had the job of doing a survey of the runway , mid summer , tarmac gets bloody hot. They used to fly Phantoms from there.

 

[T5R+]

Alconbury - for a small place many of us seem to had an interaction...........involved with a factory build there a few years back, amazed at the number of stored cars plus the fact that the dirt, grime, dust and muck must have played havoc with the paintwork.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

The motor industry makes its money from servicing and .access to cheap money to provide consumer credit.

Manufacturing is just a break even thing to keep the rest of the business running.

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