“New Kia cars are not being released to Ontario dealerships — and reportedly many more across the country — to sell. Instead, they’re being stored on this compound, 30 kilometres south of Kitchener, Ont. and allegedly on other similar compounds across Canada.”
It sounds like plausible deniability from what I suspect the real reason is: constraining supply to continue the perception of a shortage and maintain high prices.
How long can they do that? I mean they need a constant cash flow to pay for all their overhead. If they start making less cars that also sends a signal.
If they make enough profit per unit on the inflated pricing to pay their overhead they can