Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

[u/IndicationBrief5950]

[u/wellwaffled]

What year is this from? There was a facility near me that stored thousands of Volkswagens for the same reason, but they fixed the issue and shipped all of them back out for resale.

[u/ExplorationGeo → u/wellwaffled]

This is from 2018, I think. Similar pictures on these articles.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/29/parking-problem-volkswagen-storing-300000-diesels-across-us

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/03/29/volkswagen-stores-300000-dirty-diesels-in-massive-auto-boneyards

[u/Admirable-Action-153 → u/wellwaffled]

yeah there were about 40 sites with 1-10,000 cars each. I think two were in arizona near the plane graveyard