>A burnt-out cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars, including Porsches and Bentleys, sank on Tuesday off the Portuguese Azores archipelago nearly two weeks after it caught fire, a port official said.
>Joao Mendes Cabecas, the captain of the nearest port on the island of Faial, told Reuters the Panama-flagged Felicity Ace had sunk as efforts to tow it began due to structural problems caused by the fire and rough seas.
>"When the towing started... water started to come in," he said. "The ship lost its stability and sank."
>The blaze on the ship carrying around 4,000 vehicles made by Volkswagen Group from Germany to the United States, broke out on Feb. 16. The 22 crew members were evacuated on the same day.
>Volkswagen, which said last week the damage to the vehicles was covered by insurance, confirmed the ship has sunk. Insurance experts said the incident could result in losses of $155 million.
oh look insurance fraud of 155 million dollars by Volkswagen
Tyler Cook
>could result in losses of $155 million I did the math and the average cost of a car seems to be $38,750. So I assume the vast majority of them were Audis.
Robert Russell
>the ship carrying around 4,000 vehicles made by Volkswagen Group and nothing of value was lost
AAHHAAHHAHAHAHA YEEEEEEEEEEESSSS YEEEEEESSSSSS FUCK THE EU!
i bet fucking russia torpedoed them
Christian Williams
are these all of the cars that had to be used with dated molds and parts that didn't require as many circuit boards and electronics while they were waiting for covid to be over?
good thing this accident happened and the free money for all of the VWs that had manual locks so next year they can replace it with the updated versions
Christian Ross
the stock is down but it's probably because of the production halts due to ukraine and not this, since they were insured.
Christopher Nelson
It was mostly VW Group, so there were Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley....
Jonathan Cruz
Yeah, because we don't get to import the poverty spec cars.
Henry Smith
A German engineer decided to ship all the cars in one boat...
Adam Brown
Euros taking "not my problem" to a new level.
Adrian Peterson
Hahaha. Fuck your german shitwagons. Pick your shitty cars up off the ocean floor, your krautpolluten my unterseabed
Captcha: FUBMW
Ayden Flores
How easy is it to tow this ship out of the depth of the ocean?
Jackson Foster
I have a bmw that’s probably worth $500, it needs about $50,000 worth of dealership repair
