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[Mr Skrunts]

1984 I bought a new Astra GTE Mk1, had 2 A4 sheets of faults listed by the rime I sold it, including rust at 2 weeks old, was told the cars had been stoof in a german steel strike, truth propably was in was in the OK for 12/18 motnhs sat there getting battered by sea spray.

[alfie]

Hi Sixstring, think I know the place that you are on about.
Is it just off the avonmouth bridge M5?,its one huge parking lot.
Alfie.

[Sixstring]

Yep, mate. Thats the place. On a good week you can just see acres and acres of cars.

[Lazydocker]

Luckily when I bought SWMBO's car I know there weren't any in UK stock

Reckon we had it on the drive within about 3 weeks of being built

[davethediver]

I seem to recall that back in the 70s or 80s there were huge dumps of 'surplus to the market' new cars (either Fords or Vauxhalls) siting in fields. Car hire companies were obtaining these cars direct from the manufacturers at silly prices to have reistered, used for a few thousand miles, before being sold on through the newly new second hand market

This way the car companies were 'losing' their over-production.

Anyone else remember this and the exact details? :-/ :-/

A few years ago i used to use a car hire/lease place in nottingham somewher and the cars were very competitivly priced the only snag was it had to be returned with less than 6000 on the clock if you got close they picked it up and gave you another new one.

I know this had something to do with pre registering and being able to sell it on afterwards.