JAGwinn
New Reader
3/12/19 3:05 p.m.
I worked at the Mitsubishi Motors North America auto assembly plant in Normal, Illinois. It closes some 3 years ago.
It is now RIVIAN. An electric car manufacture. The ex-MMNA plant is currently the battery plant for Rivian and all hope that car making will be brought into the plant in the near future.
All that aside, they have a very large storage facility that used to house the Mitsu, Dodge and Chrysler cars we built there, but now is the destination of the infamous VW Buy Back.
from the overpass of Mitsubishi Motorway off I-55. A look over the lot.
I found one of those lots up in north Georgia about two years ago. So VW still hasn't figured out what to do with them?
Id bet there's close to a grand in loose change in that lot.
Hi Neighbor!
I've been past there a few times myself, but have always been driving, so I didn't look hard enough to realize those were all VWs.
I was glad to hear that Rivian was setting up shop there, hope they make a go of it.
I have more than a few friends who lost their jobs when Mits pulled out, from the plant itself and smaller shops that provided parts and services to the plant.
Glad I passed on the opportunity to go there or I would have been looking for a new career at 50 something myself.
Does the whole area smell like crayons?
There are 30+ lots all over the US full of VWs. This one's in Victorville, CA.
The Silverdome in Michigan.
Washington state (not the only parking lot on this property!)
Google maps link of the area
Google maps link to a port in WA.
Brainerd
An aerial view of the Rivian lot.
No more VWs at the Silverdome. No more Silverdome for that matter.
How hard would they look for a liberated one?
What a waste.....
But by now they are probably not worth enough to retrofit ,
There was an old Die Hard movie that torched a not finished housing track in the San Fernando valley in LA ,
The houses were left unfinished so long that they could not be fixed and it was too much to tear them down ....
So what can we do with the VWs ,
1000 hour race ? Largest demolition derby ? Free cars to the poor ?
Largest concentrated mass burnout.
In reply to JAGwinn :
Some of our CIR SCCA members tried to get one of their lots for autox over the years way back when it was still Diamond Star. Unfortunately we never got permission.
MadScientistMatt said:
I found one of those lots up in north Georgia about two years ago. So VW still hasn't figured out what to do with them?
Some of them, at least, are being retuned/retrofitted and being sold as used cars. A friend of mine has one.
The only reason they cheated on the tests for his model, he told me, was so that they could stretch the DEF tank out to 10,000mi to coincide with the oil change interval. Of all the stupid things...
Fill every the transmissions and crankcases with MMO and enduro race
In reply to Knurled. :
They sold the '15 models left on the lot, starting in Spring '17, I bought one.
Ony ones that would be sold as used from a dealer now, would be ones the previous owner did the "fix" on, and later traded in on something else, or the dealer picked up at auction. None of the buy-back cars are being sold.
Low buck racing series! You pay $5000 to enter and they give you a car. If it breaks or crashes, throw it away and get another one!
bigdaddylee82 said:
In reply to Knurled. :
They sold the '15 models left on the lot, starting in Spring '17, I bought one.
Ony ones that would be sold as used from a dealer now, would be ones the previous owner did the "fix" on, and later traded in on something else, or the dealer picked up at auction. None of the buy-back cars are being sold.
That sounds pretty accurate then, since his is a '15. Must have misremembered.
Sell them to Mexico? There's gotta be money to be made on all those cars.
I'd love to get ahold of an engine out of one for an offroad vehicle. The passat engine was rated at 188hp and 300ft*lbs in a light and small package. I'm sure a tune could bump those BHP numbers up to WHP.
They are selling a bunch of them. I have a '12 Sportwagen I picked up from a local VW/ Audi/ Porsche tuner/ importer. Fully loaded, super clean, 110k miles, 4 year 50k warranty from VW on all diesel parts, $7k.
I have heard of better deals, but for a daily, it is great and truly super clean Palm Desert car. Additional bonus, the TDI doesn't make you choose between AC or acceleration, torque for the win!
Buyback inventory of VWs and Audis- https://azeuros.com/inventory/
AAZCD
Reader
3/12/19 9:11 p.m.
Cheating an emissions test? Bad for the environment.
Wasting hundreds of thousands of cars has to create a much bigger 'carbon footprint' than any damage caused by the software.
In reply to former520 :
Are they Dieselgate buy-backs, or just cars that the previous owner kept?
