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01-22-2007, 01:24 AM | #1 |
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This May Be Why There are 6-Miles on New Yarii
This picture appeared in the Portland, OR Oregonian this week.
Loading onto this or similar ship, plus unloading, parking in a HUGE receiving lot, running through the lot's shop for needed mods and then onto a transporter for the trip to the dealer could easilty account for the 6-miles most folks mentioned. FYI: The accompaning article also the big lot here in Portland has something like 4,000 Mazdas being stored on it from the ship that almost sank off of Alaska - It said they plan to scrap them eventhough many seem undamaged.
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01-22-2007, 02:05 AM | #2 |
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Well yea? 6 miles or higher on any new car...no one can get a new car with 0 miles on it.
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01-22-2007, 04:03 AM | #3 |
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That's one huge ship! Friggin floating parking lot....
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01-22-2007, 09:16 AM | #4 |
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how else do you think they get them on and off the boat? I am in Toledo (where they make Jeeps) and all of them are driven off the line to a holding lot 3-5 miles away, there are like 4 or 5 of these holding lots around town, it is kinda funny when they kick up production because there will be like 1,000,000 Jeep Liberty's all parked nicely in one parking lot.
Also my Dad works at one of the Dodge Ram Assembly plants in Warren, MI. They do about the same thing, but almost every car driven off the line they do a burn-out right off the line, my dad says it is funny to watch.
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01-22-2007, 09:26 AM | #5 |
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Mine had 8 miles
and I took delivery right after it rolled off the truck at the dealership.
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01-22-2007, 05:12 PM | #6 | |
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First car we hopped into was an mr2 and we did a couple of high speed laps/burnouts around the lot. Same went for the other two cars we moved. Curious how many new / used cars on a lot lose a bit of rubber this way?
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01-22-2007, 06:04 PM | #7 |
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mine had 8 before i took delivery. started with 6 and 2 were from my sales guy who went and filled'er up.
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01-22-2007, 07:17 PM | #8 |
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Hehe......... I see this kind of ships very often because I live close to where some of them dock. I have even tried to see my Yaris rolling off the ship but could not. There are thousands of cars in each shipment.
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