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Originally Posted by RS67
Ford haven't had thousands of cars just sitting around waiting to be sold since before the last economic crash. Dealers will have some stock of cars that they can shift quickly, but they don't have thousands of cars sitting on disused airfields. Ford saw the crash coming and retooled their factories to produce two or more different vehicles so that they were always able to maintain a steady production output. After the crash and bailouts other manufacturers followed suit. There will likely still be some manufacturers like Kia and Hyundai and some of the Japanese, that will still have a large stock of cars in the UK as they will make customer spec changes to the cars at their compounds or at the dealerships.
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really? its a LOT more than that!
in the uk, 17% of cars are unsold. thats about 300,000 cars or £27 billion worth just sitting around
https://www.motortrader.com/motor-tr...3bn-02-10-2017