BRAND new cars worth more than £200,000 have been left dumped on a road after the manufacturer went into liquidation.
The Fisker Ocean cars, worth up to £43,000, have been lining Racecourse Road, gathering dust ever since Fisker went bust in October last year.
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Multiple members of the public have reported the unusual and eerie convoy on various occasions.
It has been dormant with its factory stickers still in place for months, yet no move has been made to get rid of the three-tonne factory-new cars.
The Fisker Ocean models retail for £30,000 to £43,000, yet it is unclear which model these abandoned ones are.
These specific abandoned vehicles have not yet been registered due to the absence of the manufacturer or the rightful owner.
Some of the cars still have import stickers on the windscreen, with model numbers and factory documents still lying inside them.
Locals have been trying to figure out how they got there and who is responsible for this ghostly convoy.
The local car dealership, Premium Central Performance and Prestige Cars told NottinghamshireLive that they were holding the cars for the company so that if they made a sale in Nottingham locals would have somewhere they could collect their new Fisker Ocean.
The car dealership had made a deal with the manufacturer to sell their cars.
However, after only selling four of the models, they had no interest in selling more as the company had liquidated.
Therefore, while they had these cars in stock, they were only storing them for Fisker in case they sold one in the local area.
Furthermore, when the company went bust in October 2024, the car dealership contacted the liquidators to inform them that they were moving the cars to a public road ready for collection.
They also warned the liquidators that Nottingham City Council would dispose of them if they were left on the road for too long.
Since then, Fisker and their liquidators are said to have not tried to contact the dealership or collect the abandoned vehicles, and the dealership is not in a legal position to sell them or use them for anything else.
Therefore, after repeatedly notifying the liquidators of their existence, the dealership relinquished themselves from responsibility for the vehicles by parking them on the public road and waiting for the local authority to deal with them – as they are not legally theirs.
Nottingham City Council issued seven-day removal notices on the vehicles on March 3, 2025, and they were still at the site as of Monday (April 14).
Huge car brand closes and sells off ALL UK dealerships after suffering ‘heavy losses’
By Nicole Cherruault
A HUGE car brand has been forced to close and sell off all its UK dealerships after suffering “heavy losses”.
Mercedes-Benz Retail Group’s annual accounts revealed the group has “disposed of its remaining leasehold premises” after years of struggling financially.
The documents, filed via Companies House, show the group has been settling its debts with a view of ceasing trading soon.
They also revealed directors should “not expect any further future trading activity” with the company.
This follows years of financial blows, including a £35 million loss in 2019 and a £20.9 million loss in 2020.
Confirming the latest news, director Wolfgang Pipperger said: “During the period, the company sold its remaining dealerships at which point the company ceased to trade.
“After the reporting date, the company disposed of its remaining leasehold premises, recovered its remaining trade and other receivables and settled any outstanding trade and other payables with a view to move the company into a dormant status.
“The directors do not expect any further future trading activity within the company.”
This follows the closure of a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Bradford late last year.
The dealership, which was around for 70 years, announced it would cease trading on October 31.
The closure came as dealership group Stratstone began the brutal task of closing some of its sites – months after it was acquired by Lithia Motors.
The US giants picked up Stratstone and Evans Halshaw in February after completing its takeover of Pendragon in a huge £397 million deal.
Then, in April, it was reported that Lithia had cut around 250 jobs by binning off used car supermarket brand CarShop.
Since then, Stratstone’s network of sites has been largely unaffected until now – which has seen Mercedes-Benz of Bradford joined by the Tyneside BMW and Mini dealership.
Another ex-Pendragon site – Evans Halshaw Ford Northwich – also closed its doors.
According to the Stratstone website, the Bradford-based dealership opened in 1953 and was the first dealer and distributor for all Mercedes vehicles in the North of England, and is the oldest in the UK.
It stood at its original site until it was destroyed in a fire in 1963; then the business moved to Thornton Road, where it remained until its closure last week.