I bought a car in Dec for an awesome deal (used 1 yr.) Take the time to research, have lots of info, be willing to walk away and be firm on a price you are willing to pay and you can do really well if you have decent credit to get a loan. The dealers are dying. some may try to hoard, some will need to unload inventory to free up cash and will deal.
I can't speak for the European ports, but Long Beach CA always looks like that. I used to wonder how the hell they would sell that many cars. My friend worked at the Nissan port and used to have to drive those cars through a carwash. That was his job, driving the cars through the carwash then reparking them LOL
In the late 90s there was a huge increase in electronic products and all the manufacturers were spending a lot of money to find electronic components. The maker of electronic components were struggling to make them. When that bubble burst everyone had huge excess and I gained from that as I was able to buy a lot of excess at some amazing prices. The same should be happening to all those excess automobiles. Funny how the big companies don't really think ahead. All they seem to care is if the executives and board members are happy with their fat checks. They should give the workers more credit as without them this big companies wouldn't be big at all.
Here in Munich, about 1500m from where I live BMW has it's developement and parts of it's production. They have always about 2000 new cars just standing around and waiting for sale or delivery. So that's just normal here.