What happens to new cars that don't sell?

Pre reg and sell at discounted price that guarantees a sale or maybe use as staff / courtesy car .

But more likely to pre . Reg as advertising a new unregistered car at low price would upset importer and make similar cars hard to sell at higher price.

Everything sells, eventually.

Some distributor stock does sit for months or occasionally.

Dealer stock doesn't usually sit too long but there are lots of avenues to getting the price down and getting rid; use as a demo, reg it, courtesy car, rental fleet etc.

Unless you work for Opel or Nissan or something like that i'd say there isn't too much truly unsellable stock out there though.

Looking at subaru dealers and their stock you would think they were selling a decent amount of cars . Dan seamans in Cork have a decent showroom stock of cars but only about 30 cars sold in Ireland last year

Time it right, end of quarter and Ssangyong pay you to take the car.

You can write off as depreciation . But yes some dealers are very stubborn with stick

Nothing wrong with that. I would take one. There is an electric Korando now and it's supposed to be very good. No idea if it is coming here do

That happens in my company but we deal in food ( theres best before/use by date and date of when it can't be shipped into shops, even if there's like 14 or 30 days left on it, manufacturer claims the tax back). Didn't think it could happen with cars though.😱

Would have thought they would have exported the fiat's to UK or some other rhd country.

Regarding ssangyong their financial situation is very poor could easily go bellys up

Surely it must have been at the introduction of CO2 based tax in 08 as this may have made them sale proof. Before that, surely they could have sold them for more than cost unless rust was an issue or something.

That's how most commercial vehicles are made from the dealers here. I remember hearing how Toyota Ireland had to hide all their commercial conversions when a senior person from Japan came over, they fitted top quality leathers seats and equipment to their vehicles which the Irish took out and destroyed.

We live in the same world. Online returns are nearly all dumped.

I remember going out to NVD years ago to meet a Fiat friend of the family as my mother-in-law was one looking for a Punto. There were row upon row of nearly new Puntos, Stillos, 147's, the guy couldn't give them away. How times have changed.

Let Y = 0

Ah the good old days of FIAT. I learned to drive in my mum's 1994 Punto, absolute cracker of a little car. Looked good, was totally reliable, had around 75 bhp but weighed about half of a modern car.

In 2016 my folks got a decent chunk off a 2014 Mark IV Subaru Outback that had sat unregistered - it's pretty worthless now though a) because it's a Subaru Diesel and b) dealers still see it as 2014 model even though it has 2016 reg as the Mark V came out 2015/16 so it's an obvious difference. It wasn't bought to trade in anyway so will be kept until it goes no more.

It was an interesting purchase - the auld lad found out it was in stock from one dealer but they wouldn't do a deal on it so he rang around the other Subaru dealers asking the same questions until one was prepared to negotiate to get the sale.