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A crushing issue: How to destroy brand-new cars

Discussion in 'Other Cars' started by cwerdna, Apr 30, 2008.

  1. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Seems like a waste.

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    Well in this day and age, you really can't take any chances. However, this would be a good chance for Mazda to show how recyclable their cars are and how much of those new vehicles can be recycled and put into new ones.
     
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    I'm pretty sure that this is the same batch of cars discussed at the end of this article:
    High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace

    And while we can point fingers at the USA's litigious nature... mild terms like "tilted" don't quite correspond to "nearly capsized, with many cars under salt water for days".

    (Given that there are thousands of post-Katrina cars getting sold across the USA (and likely into Central America as well), I'm not sure that's a compelling argument for destruction vs. "as-is donation" ... but the latter is pretty well blocked by the aforementioned litigiousness, so.)
     
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