Is this the biggest ever lie Posted on the Internet?

This thing has gone viral, and some Conspiracy Web Sites are lapping it up.

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Where the Worlds Unsold Cars go to die. In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers, better known as "channel stuffing", of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory at dealer lots just hit a new record high. But did you know that when it comes to flat or declining sales and stagnant end demand, channel stuffing is merely the beginning? THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE Houston...We have a problem!...Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world. There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained. Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line.......[snipped scans and many hundred useless words]

See http://ift.tt/S604OY for the full story and for one of the hundreds of sources of this viral blog that have arisen in the past couple of days.







A very quick look at one of the scans and the pure lies in the blog ascertained that the below article in Business Insider Australia is from 2009 and is the source of some of the scans. Not quite as spectacular as the blog, and actually 5 years old. This scan, complete with 2014 commentary was lifted straight out of the 2009 article and is a flat out lie:



http://ift.tt/S604P2

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UPDATE: Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared? Now I don't believe they have all suddenly been sold. I would guess they may have been taken away and recycled to make room for the next vast production run. Indeed next to that test track and adjacent to the Nissan factory, they are collating again as shown on the Google Maps image below. So where did the last lot go? This is not an employees' car park by the way. ph5

It's on the Internet, it must be true.


Norm