Even worse than planned obsolescence... Hallucinating: https://maps.google.fr/maps?q=48%C2%B04 ... e&t=h&z=16
An almost new car cemetery
A visible image on Google Maps, is very revealing of the economic drifts of our time: one sees there a graveyard of almost new cars of mark Audi, located at hundred kilometers north of Munich, in Germany. The existence of this cemetery testifies to the "Channel Stuffing", a practice that consists of a company to fill its distribution channels without ensuring their real outlets to inflate artificially sales. This is the consequence of the overproduction of the automotive market, given the collapse of demand.
According to the Zero Hedge website, this practice has become very common in this sector. These cars are destined for destruction; in this way, manufacturers avoid lowering the price of cars, such as spare parts.
Digging a hole, then filling it, or building cars to destroy them, seems to have become the new engine of our economies, the blog says ironically.
Source: http://www.express.be/business/fr/econo ... 189809.htm