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.
If I went to the car lots a few months ago there'd be a bunch of 2006 models. Now the 2007 models come in. I'm sure a bunch of the 2006s left on the lot get sold to fleets. But what happens to the 2006s that don't get sold? Then the 2008 models come out. There's still those
2006 models that remain unsold.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.Do some of these cars go into storage, saved as museum pieces?
I asked another friend that is into cars yesterday this same question and he too has wondered what happens to unsold cars. Maybe one of you know.