Mazda dumped 4,703 brand new cars to scrapyard

Deaf Mater · 05-04-2008, 03:12 PM

Mazda Sends 4,703 New Cars to the Scrap Heap - Switched

Foxrac · 05-04-2008, 03:27 PM

Wow, that's waste...

purplecatty · 05-04-2008, 03:49 PM

Shush! what a waste too!! If cars are not wet then Why not sell it cheep!! $1 each to get rid of it. Anyone would be interested in buying $1 Brand New cars!! BE NICE!

Catty

Phillips · 05-04-2008, 03:53 PM

!!!! Sheeesh

Liebling:-))) · 05-04-2008, 04:29 PM

wow

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Originally Posted by purplecatty

Shush! what a waste too!! If cars are not wet then Why not sell it cheep!! $1 each to get rid of it. Anyone would be interested in buying $1 Brand New cars!! BE NICE!

Catty

That´s good suggestion... Why can´t they sell us for $1 instead of waste them to scrapyard.

Calvin · 05-04-2008, 04:33 PM

That's crazy to send all those brand new cars to the crusher or shredder. I guess they don't want to deal with recalls or liability issues with those cars.

And I agree it's a BIG waste! *smh*

Wokamuka · 05-04-2008, 05:48 PM

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A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars - WSJ.com
The Japanese car maker, controlled by Ford Motor Corp., easily could have found takers for the vehicles. Hundreds of people called about buying cheap Mazdas. Schools wanted them for auto-shop courses. Hollywood asked about using them for stunts.

Mazda turned everyone away. It worried about getting sued someday if, say, an air-bag failed to fire properly due to overexposure to salty sea air.

It also worried that scammers might find a way to spirit the cars abroad to sell as new. That happened to thousands of so-called "Katrina cars" salvaged from New Orleans' flooding three years ago. Those cars -- their electronics gone haywire and sand in the engines -- were given a paint job and unloaded in Latin America on unsuspecting buyers, damaging auto makers' reputations.

Mazda saw no easy way to guard against these outcomes. So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles. "We couldn't run the risk of damaging the brand name that Mazda worked so hard over the years to develop," says Jeremy Barnes, the company's corporate-affairs director for North America.

Fear of lawsuits trump the educational good that could have come out of this.

***VamPyroX*** · 05-04-2008, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by purplecatty

Shush! what a waste too!! If cars are not wet then Why not sell it cheep!! $1 each to get rid of it. Anyone would be interested in buying $1 Brand New cars!! BE NICE!

Catty

Yeah! I'd buy 100 of them at $1 each and sell them at $1,000 each!

sequoias · 05-05-2008, 12:05 AM

Whoa, what a waste. I hope they're recycling them to make another new cars though. Many old cars are recycled from the scrap. I bet the insurance will cover the damage to Mazda's new cars on the trip to the US.

***~SG~*** · 05-05-2008, 05:48 AM

Wow, that's crazy to destroy brand new cars. What a waste.

Wokamuka · 05-05-2008, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sequoias

I hope they're recycling them to make another new cars though. Many old cars are recycled from the scrap.

The process is, as follows:

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The process runs with startling efficiency. It begins when longshoremen take the cars from the freighter and drive them to a nearby lot where the airbags . . .

A forklift next piles the cars onto trailers for a brief ride to Pacific Car Crushing.

Steel-alloy wheels are sliced with high-power saws to make sure they won't be resold. Holes are drilled into every tire.

Next stop: Schnitzer Steel, a salvage yard down on the waterfront that's home to an immense metal grinder.

Moments later, metal shards -- most no bigger than an ashtray -- sprinkle onto a mountain of scrap near Schnitzer's dock. There, a freighter prepares to take the scrap back to Asia where it will get recycled.

Mr. Wilson looks on and concludes: "It'll all probably end up coming back as cars."

Deaf Mortgage · 05-05-2008, 12:05 PM

I cried because I want buy a Mazda 6!

I will take them as my own!

They are wise to scrape because its cheaper to recycle than handling 4,000 lawsuits. Worth possible 300k each.

So do math...

Sell full price 20k each and total profit 80,000,000

or handle 300k lawsuit and total 1,200,000,000... Umm... it could be worse.

sequoias · 05-05-2008, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Wokamuka

The process is, as follows:

Ah, I probably overlooked that. Thanks for showing me that part.

The Highlander · 05-05-2008, 12:25 PM

I don't really like Mazda.

Dixie · 05-05-2008, 04:28 PM

in this sue happy world Mazda did the right thing. But still they could have sent the cars to the dealers, told them to run some miles on them, sell them as-is. Or at least they could have been sold as certified used and the vehicles donated to abuse shelters or to poor families that cannot afford a car of their own and live where there is no public transportation available.

But even if the above were not viable options, then they should have donated them to fire and rescue services where they could be used in extracation training procedures or for Vocational Technologies Schools or 2 year community colleges where Automotive Mechanics is an offered course and they need vehicles for the students to work on.

But a wokamuka said - the liability in this must far outweigh the educational possibilities this could have had.

purplecatty · 05-05-2008, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Dixie

in this sue happy world Mazda did the right thing. But still they could have sent the cars to the dealers, told them to run some miles on them, sell them as-is. Or at least they could have been sold as certified used and the vehicles donated to abuse shelters or to poor families that cannot afford a car of their own and live where there is no public transportation available.

But even if the above were not viable options, then they should have donated them to fire and rescue services where they could be used in extracation training procedures or for Vocational Technologies Schools or 2 year community colleges where Automotive Mechanics is an offered course and they need vehicles for the students to work on.

But a wokamuka said - the liability in this must far outweigh the educational possibilities this could have had.

Also shoulda use those mazdas on Science channel show Such as Myth Buster, Cool Fuel and other funny science show to cut em up, modify, or blow em up for experiement!! Also why not they use it to run Hydrogen, Propane, Electric, ect on Cool Fuel show LOL This is much more educational than liabilty!!

I agree that they should use that cars for emergency practice, cops ramming against car for practice, Fire dept use life jaws and all those sort which is MUCH less wasteful, make use of it before throwing it away.

Catty

sequoias · 05-08-2008, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by purplecatty

Also shoulda use those mazdas on Science channel show Such as Myth Buster, Cool Fuel and other funny science show to cut em up, modify, or blow em up for experiement!! Also why not they use it to run Hydrogen, Propane, Electric, ect on Cool Fuel show LOL This is much more educational than liabilty!!

I agree that they should use that cars for emergency practice, cops ramming against car for practice, Fire dept use life jaws and all those sort which is MUCH less wasteful, make use of it before throwing it away.

Catty

That is a great idea. They should have given it away for educational purposes.

Deaf Mater · 05-13-2008, 07:40 PM

Remember Mazda are partly owned by FORD.....what's waste..but too much liability, well would be nice to have em for parts .... if do.. would make sweet parts heaven.....

Jacob · 05-13-2008, 07:53 PM

I'd be happy to purchase one of these pretty madza's for a buck

authentic · 05-13-2008, 09:18 PM

why didnt they remove engine and everything , and paint it on yellow or pink or orange, and sell them on toys r us? Let our kids happy driving a big vehicle?

***VamPyroX*** · 05-17-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by authentic

why didnt they remove engine and everything , and paint it on yellow or pink or orange, and sell them on toys r us? Let our kids happy driving a big vehicle?

I could have taken one of those cars and converted it into something else for show.

You know how they have those cars repainted/remodeled to represent something that person likes?

If I had my own house with a big backyard, I would put the car back there... convert the front hood to a super-sized grill... the back trunk to a couch... and the inside as seats for people to sit inside with the windows down and enjoy the view while drinking beer.

purplecatty · 05-18-2008, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by VamPyroX

I could have taken one of those cars and converted it into something else for show.

You know how they have those cars repainted/remodeled to represent something that person likes?

If I had my own house with a big backyard, I would put the car back there... convert the front hood to a super-sized grill... the back trunk to a couch... and the inside as seats for people to sit inside with the windows down and enjoy the view while drinking beer.

Like this example: Holden Monero GTS BBQ Grill

jaguar-bbq-grill.jpg (image)

***VamPyroX*** · 05-27-2008, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by purplecatty

Like this example: Holden Monero GTS BBQ Grill

jaguar-bbq-grill.jpg (image)

Yeah! I'd do something like that!

SCBassist · 05-27-2008, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by purplecatty

Shush! what a waste too!! If cars are not wet then Why not sell it cheep!! $1 each to get rid of it. Anyone would be interested in buying $1 Brand New cars!! BE NICE!

Catty

Here's your buck!

Now I'm here to collect

crankshaft · 05-31-2008, 05:51 PM

HMMmmm I'm not surprised. it's probably cheaper for them to dump'em than to face a big price lawsuit... remember we're living in "sue happy" society.. sad but ture....

Just sayin'

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purplecatty The Harley Guy Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Center of the USA Posts: 1,326	Shush! what a waste too!! If cars are not wet then Why not sell it cheep!! $1 each to get rid of it. Anyone would be interested in buying $1 Brand New cars!! BE NICE! Catty

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*~SG~* Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 3,636	Wow, that's crazy to destroy brand new cars. What a waste.

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Deaf Mortgage ASL Mortgage Banker Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 850 Blog Entries: 1	I cried because I want buy a Mazda 6! I will take them as my own! They are wise to scrape because its cheaper to recycle than handling 4,000 lawsuits. Worth possible 300k each. So do math... Sell full price 20k each and total profit 80,000,000 or handle 300k lawsuit and total 1,200,000,000... Umm... it could be worse.

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Dixie Darren Hayes, Aussie Boi Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arkansas Posts: 3,867	in this sue happy world Mazda did the right thing. But still they could have sent the cars to the dealers, told them to run some miles on them, sell them as-is. Or at least they could have been sold as certified used and the vehicles donated to abuse shelters or to poor families that cannot afford a car of their own and live where there is no public transportation available. But even if the above were not viable options, then they should have donated them to fire and rescue services where they could be used in extracation training procedures or for Vocational Technologies Schools or 2 year community colleges where Automotive Mechanics is an offered course and they need vehicles for the students to work on. But a wokamuka said - the liability in this must far outweigh the educational possibilities this could have had. __________________ Visit my Deaf Blog Signature banner created by me, please do not steal!

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Deaf Mater Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Winston Salem NC Posts: 69	Remember Mazda are partly owned by FORD.....what's waste..but too much liability, well would be nice to have em for parts .... if do.. would make sweet parts heaven.....

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