Too many new cars?

[awa355]

Not sure how accurate this article is, but makes interesting reading.

http://www.vincelewis.net/unsoldcars.html

[Milts]

Fake. Combination of photoshop and the lots full of old cars waiting to be crushed under a UK govt scheme to buy old cars just to get them off the road (newer fleet = fewer injuries, emissions etc).

[Scuba_Steve]

Yea I could believe it, the automotive industry is mega wasteful sorta like the food industry; they scrap perfectly good products just to keep the price artificially high.
Those yards will usually hold the vehicle until the tax write-offs are over at which time the vehicles are generally then scrapped.

[Motu]

There will be new laws for this problem. You will have to buy a new car every year. Your old one year old car is now unsafe for use on the road, you will have to surrender it to the recycling plant to receive your new car.

Why did they go to the one year WoF ? Triple the cost of a 6 month WoF, make the test extremely difficult to pass, and increase new car sales.

[Winston001]

There will be new laws for this problem. You will have to buy a new car every year. Your old one year old car is now unsafe for use on the road, you will have to surrender it to the recycling plant to receive your new car.

Why did they go to the one year WoF ? Triple the cost of a 6 month WoF, make the test extremely difficult to pass, and increase new car sales.

Not in New Zealand. We do not manufacture cars, bikes, trucks, or tractors. In fact people buying cars etc puts a real dent in our balance of payments as a nation. We are far better off to keep what we have and run them into the ground. Lots of work for kiwi mechanics and panel shops, less overseas funds transferred to Japanese and European auto plants.

[Akzle]

ahh. Market saturation and sunset industries. No jew could have possibly seen it coming. Oh well, you lot all going to have to go and buy new cars to fix the problem with money...

O. Wait on.

[Akzle]

there must be a rather small market, lets call them 'townies' or more likely 'fucking aucklanders', who insist on the latest automotive fashion, and go out of their way to get this years model. Keeping up with the jewnses.
Ironically theyre usually the ones that cant drive for shit.

[SMOKEU]

There are too many old cars. It seems like New Zealanders are obsessed with paying crazy amounts of money for old, worn out Japansese wrecks that the rest of the developed world doesn't want and relying on that magical badge up front to negate the need for anything more than the odd engine oil change. Which is one of the reasons I don't own a car, and haven't for a few years.

[The Reibz]

I only own a car to tow my boat. My car is a worn out heap of shit that burns oil, 20 year old E series Falcon. Manual transmission for skids. I run a over powered 2 stroke on the back of my inflateable and my bikes o2 sensor has been removed.

Fuck emissions. Buy old

[Akzle]

My car is a ...heap of shit... Falcon.

summarised to realise the salient point.

[Akzle]

There are too many old cars. It seems like New Zealanders are obsessed with paying crazy amounts of money for old, worn out Japansese wrecks that the rest of the developed world doesn't want and relying on that magical badge up front to negate the need for anything more than the odd engine oil change. Which is one of the reasons I don't own a car, and haven't for a few years.

my car is old. But it gets between 9-11 lt/100km. For the extra 4$ in petrol/tank compared to a new model, i get pedals that are connected to the engine/box/actual brakes, no computer to double think, doors made out of plate steel, no airbags or abs 'safety features' basically fuck all that cant be fixed with a hammer.
And it does that all day, whether loaded and towing (it tows like a motherfucker) or laying phat skidz up the gravel, or just rolling down the highway. I did, and continue, to pay fuckall for it.

[Scuba_Steve]

Yep give me old cages anyday...
Can be fixed with a socket, screwdriver & hammer; no electronics to fuckout; built with "you crash it you're fucked" safety incentive; cheap on gas as they only have an engine to run; cheap on parts as they're off the shelf, not custom fabricated for that model of vehicle only; everything's direct connect mechanical & above all they actually made RWD manuals back then

[Mushu]

There are too many old cars. It seems like New Zealanders are obsessed with paying crazy amounts of money for old, worn out Japansese wrecks that the rest of the developed world doesn't want and relying on that magical badge up front to negate the need for anything more than the odd engine oil change. Which is one of the reasons I don't own a car, and haven't for a few years.

Bullshit. My car cost fuck all, upkeep has been minimal (especially if you factor in that out has been driven on chch roads since the earthquakes), is more reliable than most new cars and it's a 21 year old jap import. Yes the magical badge does make a difference, Toyotas built before the mid ninetys are near bulletproof if looked after (and often even if they are not looked after they still last forever) new cars are designed to be replaced when the warranty runs out.

I really doubt 2014 models will be as common in 30 years as 1984 models are today.

[Grubber]

there must be a rather small market, lets call them 'townies' or more likely 'fucking aucklanders', who insist on the latest automotive fashion, and go out of their way to get this years model. Keeping up with the jewnses.
Ironically theyre usually the ones that cant drive for shit.

Of coarse being an Auckland resident you will have all the relevant data to support your load of shite!

[Akzle]

Of coarse being an Auckland resident you will have all the relevant data to support your load of shite!

im not an auckland resident. But im there often enough.
You can be an honorary aucklander, you have the right level of ignorant arrogance!

-edit-
wait, you ARE actually an aucklander. Causation? Or correlation?