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Update: Almost two years after the Cougar Ace carrier tipped over off the coast of Alaska, damaging 4,703 brand new Mazdas, management have finally decided to scrap all the cars. The Associated Press reports that officials were planning to salvage as many vehicles as they could but rust caused by the salty sea air made the cars unsellable.

Original: You may remember a report that a cargo ship carrying almost five thousand US and Canada bound Mazdas on board had keeled over. Now Mazda has announced that none of the cars will be sold as new and will instead be sold through the used cars market.

“While we do not, at this time, know the full extent of the damage to vehicles on board, none of the Mazdas will be sold as new,” said Jim O’Sullivan, president and CEO of Mazda North America. “It is possible that those vehicles which are undamaged or repairable will be made available for sale as used cars through Mazda’s dealer network in the U.S. and Canada. We will only be in a position to decide on any used car sales once the vessel has been unloaded and each unit comprehensively inspected. Those beyond repair will be immediately scrapped.”

“In the interest of transparency and customer peace of mind, we will post the vehicle identification numbers (VINs) of vehicles destined for sale on our consumer Websites, www.MazdaUSA.com and www.mazda.ca, so that there is no confusion as to which vehicles were on the ship,” added O’Sullivan.

Slightly more than half of the cars are MAZDA3s and about one-fourth are Mazda CX-7s. The vehicles were headed to the ports of Vancouver, Tacoma and Hueneme.

ca m'attriste! j'aurais bien aimé avoir un CX - 7

Ils ont du perdre beaucoup d'argent j'espère qu'ils ont un bonne assurance

a mon avis oui ils n'ont pas le choix, mais je plains l'assureur

Je pense que Mazda aura surtout des problemes de timing vu qu'ils doivent etre bien assurés question matériel

Sinon ca me fait penser que j'ai vu un CX 7. Pas mal en vrai

C'était déjà arrivé il y a quelques temps dans la Mer du nord. Le Tricolor (je crois qu'il s'appelait ainsi) avait coulé au large de Calais, et avec lui, quelques centaines de Volvo

Exact pour les Volvo.

Tous les 1° XC90 pour l'Europe, dont un pour mon patron

Les CX7, ça se vend pas (essence powaaa) alors c'est pas grave

Je sors !