Comments on: Video: Mazda destroys 4,703 new cars

By: weirluo

weirluo — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:59:08 +0000

JW, apparently it’s OLD Wall Street Journal news, AT LEAST! I wonder if it’s copy right protected. LOL…

By: JW

JW — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:40:37 +0000

sorry, I commented before I saw the video, wait… so u mean Car Advice is running OLD “new”s???

By: paul

paul — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:56:17 +0000

What a load of shit.
They could have sold them just like Toyota did back in about 99-2000, when a boat was hit on the way over here.

The cars were all sold with water damage and panel damage at a reduced price.All customers where awear of this and all warrantys on corrosion were void.

And Reckless1,about the tie rod ends breaking, think before you speak. For example,There are 1000’s of 4wd sold in Australia and lots of these cars go into salt water, manufactures will still warrant these, by the time they break the car would have been out of warranty for years.

By: No Name

No Name — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:21:33 +0000

WTF TP – the article is about scrapped cars not bloody pricing structutres. Get real man.

By: crouchy

crouchy — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:32:56 +0000

Are your sure those salt affected Daihatsu’s werent sold?

It sure would explain alot… hehe.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:30:43 +0000

Noooooooooo… Such a waste! They can use it as spare parts

By: realcars

realcars — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:23:26 +0000

u should complain to your beloved Toyota TP as they are setting the price as market leader.

By: realcars

realcars — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:21:45 +0000

They won’t be zoom zooming

By: TP

TP — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:20:54 +0000

I also find it annoying! Although the thing that really annoys me atm is the price of cars in Australia, $10k more then the U.S on avg yet we have the same avg income… puts me off wanting to buy some cars when your paying for eg $45k for a $30k WRX.

By: No Name

No Name — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:04:31 +0000

Seems a crying shame, but I see their point especially in the light of stupid American litigation. You can imaging some thicko redneck driving his rusty reclaim Mazda has an accident then take a lawsuit out against Mazda.

By: pg

pg — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:52:29 +0000

this pisses me off, i cant even afford a car and they do this??

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:02:16 +0000

I would like to see the guys face that took the call telling mazda that the freighter had capsized

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:30:24 +0000

After payment of the claim, the cars belong to the insurance company, not Mazda.

If the Insurance Company tried to sell them, Mazda would justifiably object, as they would not have any warranty and could all rust apart and ruin Mazda’s image.

If I were Mazda, I’d also take the insurance money and watch them being crushed, rather than put potentially lethal cars into the US system – just imagine the litigation the Yanks would start if someone was killed in one of these cars due to, say, a rusted tie rod end breaking.

By: George

George — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:08:35 +0000

Wheelnut, I think you may mean the 2-door STi models (normal ones with 2 doors) – not the 22B’s.

By: Dlr1

Dlr1 — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:31:40 +0000

I seem to recall a similar incident involving Daihatsu cars bound for Australia 10 or so years ago. In that case the cars were affected by salt water while sitting on the docks in japan when a typhoon hit. The vehicles in that case made it too Australia and were donated to a number of TAFE schools for training mechanics. Shame they didnt do the same. But its the insurance company footing the bill here, not mazda.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:05:18 +0000

crouchy,
thats what i thought too.
maybe even use the wheels?

i do see their point in having to destroy them though.
it would probably cost them more to send someone to salvage the wheels and freight them back than simply opening a fresh box of wheels that arrive through the automatic ordering system.
one thing in manufacturing that is common, is that it slows the operations down and complicates the process once you start inserting bits and pieces into standard order formats

By: crouchy

crouchy — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:05:11 +0000

hmmm… if only those boxes were waterproof. and i could dive to the bottom of the atlantic.

By: wheelnut

wheelnut — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:01:41 +0000

Apparently there’s also one of the 400 Subaru 22-B 2 Door WRX STi at the bottom of Fuji Harbour in Japan if anyone is interested

And a couple of hundred Mercs BMWs Audis and Prsches in the middle of the atlantic – still in their boxes

By: crouchy

crouchy — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:58:33 +0000

*********Primo***********

Oh sorry i had to do that, just once.

I think the wall street journal needs a new reporter.

As if they couldnt use some of the parts (interior?)