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I agree.. how do scrap yards manage to make money by breaking up cars? Surely there are so many different materials, contamination must be an issue and modern c
by _mulder_ 13y ago
I agree.. how do scrap yards manage to make money by breaking up cars? Surely there are so many different materials, contamination must be an issue and modern cars don't even have that much metal.
How do car-breakers make their money? That's the Pricenomics article I want to read.
- GFischer 13y agoMaybe selling the used parts to us South Americans :) Cars here (Uruguay) are so expensive, we try to maintain them forever An old article (from 1969!!!) illustrates the point: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1082075/index.htm http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1... "The official position is that car owning is a sumptuary sin." It still is, and so new cars are taxed about 100%. Take any U.S. car, triple its price, and that's the cost in Uruguay. Old cars (2005 and older) can be five to ten times more expensive than in the U.S. (my 2002 small Renault Twingo sells for U$ 9.000)