Mazda Disassembles "Totaled" Cargo
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Mazda Disassembles "Totaled" Cargo
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...023/LATESTNEWS
Interesting...
Within hours the metallic blue sedan will be drained, gutted, squished and shredded--one of thousands to meet the same fate here. The cars are so new, most don't even have 10 miles on the odometer.
Automakers usually try to find the best way to build new vehicles. These days, Mazda Motor Corp. is busy figuring out how to most efficiently destroy them.
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The freighter, the Cougar Ace, spent weeks bobbing on the high seas, listing at a severe 60-degree angle, before finally being righted.
The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal--but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long. Might corrosive fluids seep into chambers where they don't belong? Was the Cougar Ace now full of lemons?
Automakers usually try to find the best way to build new vehicles. These days, Mazda Motor Corp. is busy figuring out how to most efficiently destroy them.
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The freighter, the Cougar Ace, spent weeks bobbing on the high seas, listing at a severe 60-degree angle, before finally being righted.
The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal--but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long. Might corrosive fluids seep into chambers where they don't belong? Was the Cougar Ace now full of lemons?
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That seems ridiculous to me. A good vehicle dismantler could have stripped the vehicles and sold 95% of the parts on the secondhand market. You're not telling me tyres and CD players are going to be useless by being left on a boat for a bit?
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I hadn't heard this story, so I Googled it.
Intersting to see a ship with its' propeller and rudder out of the water.
Sort of amazing that it didn't sink (looks like some windows and other
openings must have been underwater on the port side).
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/27/c...mazdas-aboard/
Intersting to see a ship with its' propeller and rudder out of the water.
Sort of amazing that it didn't sink (looks like some windows and other
openings must have been underwater on the port side).
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/27/c...mazdas-aboard/
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