Re: Finally a proper use for pourable foam
im kinda irritated that they would kill the resale on a perfectly new benz... why not a cheaper car or used one at that..
This car is in Europe, Eastern Europe to be exact, and is at least 10 years old. There is, or was no resale value left on it, which is probably why it ended up where it was in the first place.
It is like a 10 year old Saturn in bad shape in the States. No big loss.
European cars are not very reliable (electronics), cost a fortune to repair, and as such lose their resale value real fast.
A German car only holds its “status symbol value” here for a year or two, after that it is it is just an expensive to repair, used car. Most dealers won't take them in as a trade in because they have to guarantee them when sold locally (Germany), and the, as said before, electronics are a nightmare. You can't afford to repair them here, but in other parts of the world, where labor is not an issue, they can afford to spend weeks, or months, tracking down the electronic gremlins, or just rip it all out (not allowed in Germany).
This leads to them being bought up in bulk and exported (container ship, rail, truck) out of the country to Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. It keeps the used ones off the market, and artificially pushes the short term value of new ones higher. If you want one in Western Europe you have to buy a new one at overly inflated prices.
Had the car not been rebuilt in this way, it would probably ended up as scrap metal on a slow boat to China in the near future.
