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I wonder how the keys are managed? Are they in the ignition?Why 300,000 Volkswagens Are Being Stored In These Massive Auto Boneyards
As part of the settlement after it got caught cheating on its emissions tests, Volkswagen has bought back about 350,000 of its U.S. diesel vehicles. The automaker has to date spent more than $7.4 billion on the cars, according to court filings seen by Reuters.
Where does VW put all those cars? Wherever it can find the space.
The German automaker has 37 remote storage facilities around the country, and they're not just parking lots. The sites include a former football stadium in the Detroit suburbs, an old paper mill in Minnesota and a giant patch of land in the California desert.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/29/597991227/why-300-000-volkswagens-are-being-stored-in-these-massive-auto-boneyards
onethatcares
(16,161 posts)what happens to all the vehicles that don't get sold to the American public. Right here on the main drag in St Pete FL there are at least 57 car lots, new, used, luxury, not so luxury, compact to SUVs. and every september without fail another big bunch of cars supplant the ones that were there.
WTF do they do with these things?
Demovictory9
(32,417 posts)they put them in those cargo containers and ship them out. Remember the Katrina flood cars eventually turned up in
other countries.
onethatcares
(16,161 posts)in September.from different manufacturers. I'm researching now but I don't think the CAFE and EPA regs are the same throughout the globe. Nor the advanced road surfaces of America and Europe.
Maybe they just smash em.
pstokely
(10,522 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:43 AM - Edit history (1)
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/plumber-whose-decaled-truck-went-to-syria-settles-lawsuitDemovictory9
(32,417 posts)I didn't know he sued
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I miss that car. My new has Jetta gets way worse mileage and doesnt have the same pep or feel.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Exact same thing. It looks like someone at Bosch made a deal with all these car manufacturers to install some software to get around the regulations.
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)think i would rather have one of these
Demovictory9
(32,417 posts)dembotoz
(16,784 posts)eventually those were all processed
i think
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)lying works for trump
why not for vw as well