Around 1,400 luxury vehicles from the 52,000 tonne car transporter Hoegh Osaka, including a £260,000 Rolls Royce Wraith, a Porsche Boxter, Range Rovers and Jaguars, which was grounded on Bramble Bank in the Solent three weeks ago to stop it capsizing, are finally being driven off the ship on to Southampton dockside.
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Get your bids in now...!!
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Not sure why they'd get any special treatment or pricing. My LEC was a cancelled order that spent several months in a channelside storage facility before finding an alternative buyer. I'm sure it's not that unusual, so are the cars that were 'stored' on the ship really that different?
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They are probably fine but would you want one that was not heavily discounted? It's a all a question of customer perception. At the end of the day the brand image is the most valuable thing a car company owns. I doubt they will want to risk losing it.
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>> I'm sure it's not that unusual, so are the cars that were 'stored' on the
>> ship really that different?
Yes they were stored at a 55 degree angle, hanging form chains to the suspension in a salt water laden atmosphere.
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Lots of cars get abused, bounced about, parked next to the sea for weeks/months/years and many other things we don't know about when we're looking at them. The difference is, we do know what these cars have been through. That fact alone would affect warranty validity and resale values.
And they're all LHD.
I expect Rolls Royce are mortified - not at the damage done to one car, but at the damage done to the future residuals of any matching Wraith that may come onto the market. I can see them making the Hoegh Osaka car's details public, possibly documenting its inspection and rebuild, or crushing it and letting the fact be known.
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Rolls-Royces used to have a substantial book, with all the car's numbers and details, followed by a step-by-step manual on how to reduce the thing to its component parts, or all an owner had to know about that oily stuff, in their fitted tool cabinets (in a drawer under the front passenger seat in my fifties Bentley). The tools were just for Bentley owners, not serious mechanics. But they were of excellent quality as far as they went...
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Pretty confident all 1400 cars - or the vast majority - will be re-shipped and sold as if nothing has happened. Who's to know, etc. Plenty of unsuspecting customers out there :-/
I bet thousands and thousands of cars are routinely parked up on salty docksides for months at a time before hitting the dealer network...
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A dockside is not the same as dangling from chains in a ship sideways over a sandbank in a storm!
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LISTEN to HIM FFS.
Is that OK Boss? I've tried telling them :-0)
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So there are over 1400 people in Europe expecting a brand new car (should have got them by now) and are told there's a delay.
So do you accept the car as is or wait for a new one to be built. Could be a long wait.
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Get it independently checked, negotiate a hefty discount and proceed as planned. Probably.
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Some are looking a bit second hand. Bit more than a T-Cut job.
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Last edited by: Old Navy on Tue 27 Jan 15 at 21:10
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>> Some are looking a bit second hand. Bit more than a T-Cut job.>>
>> tinyurl.com/lwp66rh>>
Same link as I provided earlier..:-)
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>> >> Some are looking a bit second hand. Bit more than a T-Cut job.>>
>> >> tinyurl.com/lwp66rh>>
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>> Same link as I provided earlier..:-)
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Posted specificallyfor the people who do not read a whole thread for a whole host of reasons. :)
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Dents aside, they're a lot cleaner than I expected them to be.
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>> Dents aside, they're a lot cleaner than I expected them to be.
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What do you expect? They've been washed twice a day.
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Europe?
I bet it was going further afield than that, why else would there be a Porsche on board.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-31312223
It was carrying more than £60m worth of Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai and Mini cars, as well as JCB vehicles.
Most were driven off under their own power but four remained on Friday and were so badly damaged specialist equipment was used to remove them.
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Fancy a luxury car - cheap? - WillDeBeest
