Talk about bad day, cargo ship carrying 4000 VW, Porsche, Lamborghini and more catches fire

[K.Aoi]

A lot of people are having a very bad day right now,

Cargo Ship Full of Porsches, Bentleys and VWs Is On Fire and Adrift in the Atlantic [UPDATED]

The Felicity Ace’s crew has been rescued, but the fate of the vehicles on board is unknown.

www.thedrive.com

There's probably a lot of Mk8 GTI and Rs in addition to Porsche, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Audis... That's a lot of money worth of brand new cars that just went up in flames. I bet none of them will be sell-able now due to liability issues. I feel bad for all the owners-to-be who's custom ordered car is essentially destroyed now. Thankfully none of the crew were hurt, but still that's a big oof

 

[Quattro Pete]

Bar b Q Porsche

Unfortunate potential loss for VW/Porsche headed to USA : https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39123584/cargo-ship-porsche-vw-fire-atlantic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

bobistheoilguy.com

 

[K.Aoi]

Bar b Q Porsche

Unfortunate potential loss for VW/Porsche headed to USA : https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39123584/cargo-ship-porsche-vw-fire-atlantic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

bobistheoilguy.com

Whoops, didn't make the connection with the title. Was surprised I didn't see a thread about it, that explains it.

 

[97prizm]

I was under the impression that cargo ships had fire suppression systems in place to prevent this very thing from happening. I wonder if the VW Group will suspend using them for vehicle shipping. This has more than a big oops written all over it.

 

[Malo83]

 

[K.Aoi]

I was under the impression that cargo ships had fire suppression systems in place to prevent this very thing from happening. I wonder if the VW Group will suspend using them for vehicle shipping. This has more than a big oops written all over it.

You'd think so, I'm going to be interested to read the post-mortem analysis when it comes out eventually.