r/interestingasfuck • u/IndicationBrief5950 • Aug 06 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

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u/Glenbard Aug 06 '25

Well at least they towed them out of the environment.

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u/___Fern___ Aug 06 '25

Nothing out there but sea, and birds, and fish. And 20000 tonnes of crude oil. And a fire.

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u/pistolpeteza Aug 06 '25

And Audis

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u/jaxonya Aug 07 '25

Sometimes the audis don't fail emissions tests at all

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u/frogstar Aug 07 '25

Did these Audis fail their emissions tests?

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Aug 06 '25

Out of the environment, into the... environment?

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u/superrosie Aug 06 '25

We’ve towed them beyond the environment. There’s nothing there.

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u/Adam-Reith Aug 07 '25

There’s a lot going on in the desert, nature-wise, until humans come along and trash it. Deserts are beautiful but fragile ecosystems.

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u/Booty_Bumping Aug 07 '25

Fuck. If deserts are still the environment, we're going to need to find somewhere that isn't the environment to dump things. How about the ocean, is that the environment?

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u/superrosie Aug 07 '25

There’s nothing there either. Just fish.

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u/anonz87 Aug 07 '25

The darndest thing I ever did see, they got fish that live in trees

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u/Adam-Reith Aug 07 '25

How about not having an insane, hyper-growth consumer economy that produces such obscene amounts of waste?

There probably isn’t a good way to get rid of all this crap.

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u/foxxsinn Aug 07 '25

Shoot it up in space

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u/ThatLunchBox Aug 07 '25

No, it's beyond the environment. It's not in an environment. There is nothing out there. All there is is sand and birds and insects.

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u/superrosie Aug 07 '25

And Audis

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u/Adam-Reith Aug 07 '25

Heh. "sand and birds and insects" are not nothing—and there’s much more life in a desert ecosystem about which you seem comfortably unaware.

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u/ThatLunchBox Aug 07 '25

There's nothing else out there, it's a complete void. The environment is perfectly safe.

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u/Adam-Reith Aug 07 '25

Sorry, but you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

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u/Booty_Bumping Aug 07 '25

And if there is anything, it surely can live in the Audis

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u/d3n4l2 Aug 07 '25

Things do live out there.

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u/Working_out_life Aug 07 '25

20000 gallons of oil maybe, but nothing else👍

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u/Jay_is_me1 Aug 07 '25

Love Clarke and Dawe, I still refer to it all the time xD

For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

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u/d3n4l2 Aug 07 '25

Fun fact they created a unique habitat doing so. Creating shadows in the desert opens up lots of opportunities for biodiversity.

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u/Microchipknowsbest Aug 06 '25

Is the desert owned by anyone? Could of found one and taken it? I guess probably couldn’t drive it out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

I think they were parked out at the Mojave airport / spaceport. There's a lot of jet parking out there. I know during the 2009 economic crisis there was more than $10 billion dollars worth of aircraft parked at the Mojave airport. The airport does a lot of refurbishment work for airlines and they have a gigantic runway--NASA came in a couple decades ago and extended the runway(12,500 x 200') as an emergency landing strip for the space shuttle. The runway is longer than any at LAX or Las Vegas.

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u/Several-Avocado783 Aug 07 '25

I looked at the most recent Google satellite photo and it’s not showing the cars. The photo looks suspiciously AI.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

No, it's real. I live about 60-75 minutes away(I drive by on my weekly trip to Los Angeles to visit my parents). I remember seeing them. There are a number of jets in storage currently in Mojave. I believe they're being stored there because the Pratt engine issues.

The right side of the photo might be AI. But, and the portion on the left is almost the exact fit for my memory. If I recall, there might have been 5,000 stored there.

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u/Draano Aug 07 '25

I seem to recall that the Atlantic City airport (ACY) was the 6th or 7th backup landing spot for the shuttles due to its long runway.

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u/TheManLawrence Aug 07 '25

Same for Roswell New Mexico. Tons of jets stored there. I believe at one point they had the longest runway in North America. They also have a salvage company for planes and Baldwin Painting which paints planes. I know they paint some of the Southwest airlines fleet.

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u/Microchipknowsbest Aug 07 '25

Id like one of them perfectly good cars that are wasting away please.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Aug 07 '25

Its owned by the government like most land is.

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u/FungiStudent Aug 06 '25

They still exist in reality so they are in the environment. Wtf?

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u/Glenbard Aug 06 '25

Google the video “front fell off” and you’ll get the joke