<i>"The car industry cannot stop making new cars because they would have to close their factories and lay off tens of thousands of employees. This would further add to the recession."</i><p>These companies exist to make money for their shareholders, not to act as an economic stimulus for the rest of society. Car companies frequently lay off workers and idle their production lines in response to economic slowdowns. Then, when the economy picks up, they hire the same workers back. (The workers don't really have anywhere else to go that will pay them comparable wages.) And if there's no revenue coming in from car sales, how are they going to pay those employees to make more cars? How are they going to buy the materials to build new cars?<p>A private company could never work this way, only a government (like the "Five Year Plans" in the Soviet Union, in which state-owned companies were manufacturing piles of goods that people didn't need).<p><i>"Currently May 16th, 2014, all of these cars at the Nissan Sunderland test track have disappeared? Now I don't believe they have all suddenly been sold. I would guess they may have been taken away and recycled to make room for the next vast production run."</i><p>No, they probably haven't been sold yet, but they've been shipped off to dealers in other countries to be sold. It's not economical to build or export cars a few at a time, so they're going to be moved in large batches. "I don't believe" is hardly a convincing argument for anything.