Hundreds of Luxury cars are being dumped in a carpark in China

HUNDREDS of expensive cars have been wasting away in an overgrown parking lot in China after they were dumped by their rich owners.

A $500,000 Bentley is being swallowed up by plants in a Chinese carpark along with hundreds more. Picture: CEN/Australscope

HUNDREDS of vehicles have been wasting away in a parking lot in China where the cars are now overgrown with weeds and trees.

Hidden in the undergrowth are expensive luxury vehicles such as Mercedes-Benzes, Land Rovers, and Bentleys — two of which are thought to be worth AU$500,000 each.

According to reports from the carpark in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the 200 or so cars have been abandoned there for years, and many are already old enough to be scrapped.

Local authorities said that many of the expensive vehicles have been kept in the lot because they were involved in complicated criminal cases currently under investigation.

Picture: CEN/Australscope ONLINE USE ONLY Pic shows: Abandoned vehicles in the car graveyard. Hundreds of vehicles have been wasting away in a parking lot in China where the cars are now overgrown with weeds and trees. Hidden in the undergrowth are also expensive luxury vehicles such as Mercedes-Benzes, Land Rovers, and Bentleys – two of which are thought to be 3 million RMB (316,890 GBP) each.

Due to the complex nature of the cases, which involve a number of government departments, the cars have been essentially impounded in the lot and have been allowed to disappear among the foliage.

Among the Audis and Mercedes-Benzes are also motorcycles or much older and cheaper vehicles which are also due to be scrapped.

But authorities have yet to handle the sedans in what has now been described as a “car graveyard”.

Picture: CEN/Australscope ONLINE USE ONLY Pic shows: Abandoned vehicles in the car graveyard. Hundreds of vehicles have been wasting away in a parking lot in China where the cars are now overgrown with weeds and trees. Hidden in the undergrowth are also expensive luxury vehicles such as Mercedes-Benzes, Land Rovers, and Bentleys – two of which are thought to be 3 million RMB (316,890 GBP) each.

Several similar cars seized by authorities in the past had been auctioned off last year, reports said, after local courts in Chengdu were given permission to sell cars from solved cases to the public.

But the majority of the vehicles are still wasting away as different government departments work together to resolve the criminal cases.