Dubai, the number of Abandoned Luxury Cars lying around is kind of a Problem

[Drache]

Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack of affordable housing. And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has been facing the unusual problem of high end sports cars being abandoned and left to gather thick layers of dust at airport car parks and on the roadside across the city.



If you've ever been to Dubai or anywhere in the United Arab Emirates, you will have noticed they have a serious car culture out there, with a particular preference for the latest and greatest in high-end super cars. But like the rest of the world, Dubai has fallen on hard times. Once the hub of the oil economy and the centre of a booming property market, foreigners, mostly British, invested in the red hot market. Newly wealthy ex-pats bought the lastest Italian and German sports cars to compliment their millionaire lifestyles– and then the global economic crisis came along and burst everybody's bubble.



Thousands of the finest automobiles ever made are now being abandoned every year since Dubai's financial meltdown, left by expatriates and locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts. With big loans to repay to the banks (unpaid debt or even bouncing a cheque is a criminal offence in Dubai), the panicked car owners make their way to the airport at top speeds and leave their vehicles in the car park, hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.



Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes are regularly abandoned at the car park of Dubai International Airport, some with loan documents and apology notes simply left on the windscreen and in some cases with the keys still in the ignition.





Last year, a Ferrari Enzo, one of only four hundred manufactured, was seized by police having spent several months in a car park collecting dust. The million dollar motor went on sale at auction alongside other Ferraris, Porsches, Range Rovers and Mercedes plucked from the roadside.



Residents complain about the unsightly vehicles hogging parking spaces at the airport and sitting slumped outside their fancy yacht clubs– it's like, so not a good look. On the plus side, discount Ferraris for everyone!

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/05/21/so-in-dubai-the-amount-of-abandoned-luxury-cars-lying-around-is-kind-of-a-problem/

[moparstuart]

 who the hell paints a  delorean    

   man i'm moving to Dubai and starting a salvage yard   

[Aero426]

How about a collection of 2000 exotics rotting into goo?

http://www.ferraris-online.com/pages/article.php?reqart=SCM_201103_SS

[Ghoste]

I wish someone would abandon a couple of Hemi cars in my driveway.

[69hemidaytona]

How about a collection of 2000 exotics rotting into goo?

http://www.ferraris-online.com/pages/article.php?reqart=SCM_201103_SS

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

[Ghoste]

Other countries?  There are people living squalor right in those same Mideast nations where these reports are coming from.

[chargerman69]

Thats on real,  better exotics then american muscle in that warehouse/green house, 
http://www.zeroto60times.com/blog/2012/07/largest-most-expensive-private-car-collection/  3000-6000 cars

[69hemidaytona]

Other countries?  There are people living squalor right in those same Mideast nations where these reports are coming from.

Actually I was responding to the article about the cars in Brunei which is in Southeast Asia. That country is very small and is quite wealthy. I don't think anybody is poor in that country although there are people in nearby Indonesia and Malaysia that are not so fortunate.

[Ghoste]

My bad, I was thinking about the ones in Dubai and surrounding areas

[Kern Dog]

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

Oh Christ, take your bleeding heart to a cardiologist and get it fixed. NOBODY has the right to tell anyone how to spend their own money. If a rich guy wants to burn a pile of 100 dollar bills in front of a starving bum, that is his right. There will always be poor people no matter the amount of "sharing" or taxation, but there will NOT always be rich people with attitudes like yours.
Squalor was misspelled, by the way.

[Tilar]

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

The people in other countries that "live in squaler and are starving" shouldn't be a factor in how many cars someone else has.

As far as what God thinks about it I couldn't tell you, But the way I see it is most that live like that are either doing it by choice or are too lazy to change their living situation. At least that's the way I see it here in the USA. There are always outlets to change your lifestyle if you are just willing to do it, or at least try to learn how.

[Ghoste]

Isn't part of the problem in the Mideast that its ruled by an aristocracy?  (now we're getting waaay off topic)

[Dino]

Who cares what someone else thinks?  Who's planning the rental of several shipping containers?  Dibs on the DMC.

[doctor4766]

Ive seen first hand some of the vehicles that are left in carparks in Dubai, covered in an inch of dust.
Its sad that sometimes there are heaps of abandoned cars taking up bays when the residents cant find a place to park

[hatersaurusrex]

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

Oh Christ, take your bleeding heart to a cardiologist and get it fixed. NOBODY has the right to tell anyone how to spend their own money. If a rich guy wants to burn a pile of 100 dollar bills in front of a starving bum, that is his right. There will always be poor people no matter the amount of "sharing" or taxation, but there will NOT always be rich people with attitudes like yours.
Squalor was misspelled, by the way.

Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't mean it's not reprehensible and disgusting.  Also, if someone else calls them a toolbag for it, they are enjoying their right to free speech - you seem to be big on rights so I thought I'd point that out.   You certainly used your right to free speech to jump on this guy for making a simple comment, which makes you a toolbag.   See what I did there?

There will always be rich and poor people as there always have been.   Turn off the Fox News and put down the Ayn Rand for a minute.

[Mike DC]

                      
Wealth is entirely relative.  



There are people on earth so rich that they could literally wipe their ass every day with what I earn that day.

There are other people on earth so poor that I could literally wipe my ass with what they make that day.  



IMHO there's no point getting worked up about any of it.  It is what it is.  

[Ghoste]

Good advice Mike.  Its always been like that and probably always will.

[Mike DC]

Thanks.


Yeah, I think it's just human nature.  It'll change when our DNA does. 

[Tilar]

You could take that rich guy and the poor guy. Strip them of everything other than the clothes on their back and $500, and in less than 5 years time they will be right back where they started. The rich guy will be rich again and the poor guy will still be a bum.

[69hemidaytona]

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

Oh Christ, take your bleeding heart to a cardiologist and get it fixed. NOBODY has the right to tell anyone how to spend their own money. If a rich guy wants to burn a pile of 100 dollar bills in front of a starving bum, that is his right. There will always be poor people no matter the amount of "sharing" or taxation, but there will NOT always be rich people with attitudes like yours.
Squalor was misspelled, by the way.

Did you read the article? First of all: The man whose cars are rotting was a criminal. He stole the money that was used to build that collection. So it wasn't his money to spend. Second: I am a conservative. I voted for Reagan two months after my 18th birthday, and have voted conservative in every election ever since. I am not against wealth and have done OK myself. Third: I did not address the issue of taxes and I think they are high enough already. Fourth: There is SOMEBODY that has the right to tell people how to spend "their" money. He talked about it a couple thousand years ago. In fact it all comes from Him anyway. You apparently know the name as I see you mentioned it in the second word of your post.

[69hemidaytona]

That article displays the worst case of greed I have ever seen. How could you even come close to enjoying that many cars? Meanwhile people in other countries live in squaler and are starving. What must God think when he sees this?

The people in other countries that "live in squaler and are starving" shouldn't be a factor in how many cars someone else has.

As far as what God thinks about it I couldn't tell you, But the way I see it is most that live like that are either doing it by choice or are too lazy to change their living situation. At least that's the way I see it here in the USA. There are always outlets to change your lifestyle if you are just willing to do it, or at least try to learn how.

The USA is very different than Southeast Asia. I have been there. If you are poor in those countries there is very little you can do to change it. They do not have the opportunities that we have here. They are hard working people. Their government is corrupt. The question I asked about what God thinks of this was rhetorical. We have the answer already.

[69hemidaytona]

Who cares what someone else thinks?  Who's planning the rental of several shipping containers?  Dibs on the DMC.

In regards to the 2000 cars in Dubai, hold off on ordering the shipping containers. The author tried to buy the few that are salvageable but the country won't issue titles or export documents. It appears they will all rot into oblivion.

[tan top]

who the hell paints a  delorean    

   man i'm moving to Dubai and starting a salvage yard   

   

[Mike DC]

You could take that rich guy and the poor guy. Strip them of everything other than the clothes on their back and $500, and in less than 5 years time they will be right back where they started. The rich guy will be rich again and the poor guy will still be a bum.

Do you really think someone from the heights of the Kennedy or Bush dynasties could have possibly ended up truly poor in this life, even if they were severely incompetent and lazy?  

[Tilar]

You could take that rich guy and the poor guy. Strip them of everything other than the clothes on their back and $500, and in less than 5 years time they will be right back where they started. The rich guy will be rich again and the poor guy will still be a bum.

Do you really think someone from the heights of the Kennedy or Bush dynasties could have possibly ended up truly poor in this life, even if they were severely incompetent and lazy?  

Umm, I'm guessing you missed the part that I highlighted above. I'll even change the color for ya.