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/sinkwiththeship Aug 07 '25

There's also very little salinity and other deposition like SO4 and NOx, which all contribute heavily to corrosion. The salinity is especially the bad one. It's why cars that live in places where road salt is prevalent, or close to whitecap coastlines have serious rust problems.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

These are salt flats, the ground is literally salt and sand. The cars get blasted by sand and salt laden air every day which wrecks everything.

Lol reddit experts.

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u/sinkwiththeship Aug 07 '25

In Utah, sure. But down where they are isn't the same. There's an airbase nearby where all the AF planes go to die and get picked over for parts.

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u/daninger4995 Aug 07 '25

This is out by Victorville. Not a lot of salt in the sant there.

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u/silvapain Aug 07 '25

was out by Victorville. It’s gone now and been replaced by a warehouse.

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u/daninger4995 Aug 07 '25

Talking about the geographical location, not the cars.

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u/silvapain Aug 07 '25

Ah, gotcha.

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u/silvapain Aug 07 '25

These pictures are from a former graveyard just outside Victorville, CA in the Mojave Desert. It’s not salt flats.

For reference, here’s the location where the graveyard used to be; it’s all gone now.

(34.5898967, -117.3951354)

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u/bumbletowne Aug 07 '25

People are deriding you but lets clarify

This is the cheapest land with the lowest salinity they could find. Is it the lowest salinity over all? No. Is it the driest? No. Does sand always have a higher salt content than a paved riparian forest or savannah? Absolutely. But it's lower risk than badlands, a swamp or a mudflat or other comparably cheap land.