That thought occurred to me, too, that I might be seeing an import parking lot. But then there was the picture of the cars lined up at the Sunderland auto test track. And yeah, who is able to shell out these huge sums for average featured cars?
But, on the other hand, I am more than a little skeptical that free market companies would continue to make cars that have no purchasers. This isn't the Soviet Union we are talking about here where you would have two factories running side by side, one making left shoes and one making right shoes. These companies are in business to make a profit and have board members and shareholders to answer to.
So that's why I said, "...if it's true."
I don't doubt that there are troubles in the auto mfg. industry. It's a cyclical industry, though, and it runs through booms and busts during times of relatively good economies because of the fairly long life of its products...people buy a car and don't need to buy another one for quite some time unless they wreck it.
There is a lot of stuff like this published on ZeroHedge that I find to be dubious.