A car is a liability. And it does go bad if it sits in the garage, the tires, the battery dies...Plus the space it takes up. Maybe if you didn't have that car in your garage you could do something interesting with that garage, like form Hewlett-Packard or Apple? I expect there wasn't a car in those garages. So it takes up space, about the same as what you need to house someone, and if you want to sell it you I suppose have to drive it...no I guess you're right in that regard, you can show it to people until you sell it. But it's better to regift it, so you're not responsible for harm that could come from bad condition, in fact come to think if there's no trust it might itself be a regift. Yeah, it's a liability.
Worst case scenario, you can throw the car away. You had no car before receiving it as a gift, you'll be not worse off if you throw it away. The dog is a little worse because you may become attached and in general, you can't really treat animals like objects in our society.
You can get it towed to a junkyard and they will even pay you a little bit for it, probably enough to at least pay for the towing costs. Otherwise, I’m sure you can arrange something with your council.
Is that true? I would expect that most junkyards would charge you both for towing and scrapping the car.
(Granted, nowadays, due to the supply chain issues and component shortages, people will pay an arm and a leg for a car that even barely runs, so there's that.)
They won't tow it for you. But they will usually pay for your car if it's in any reasonable condition, though not a lot. Maybe it's different in different countries
You can still sell the parts years and years later. No garage necessary. No driver's license required. If someone gives you a car unless it's a total junk you can easily convert it to money, and the time pressure is completely different compared to a pet.
The moment you accept the pet you have to think about everything in your future for years. You accept a car? Okay, you might not even see it, maybe you just get a paper and a key fob and an address. And you don't have to do anything for years. Nothing happens morally.
