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Cargo ship carrying BMW's, Volvo's, and Saab's sinks :-(
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Posted by: Mike656

Poor cars

. Even though insurance covers it all, it still sad to think about those BMW's on the bottom of the English Channel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2578127.stm

Posted by: Killa-b

yea i JUST saw this on the TV. boooo

there are going to be a LOT of people NOT getting their BMW's for christmass

50mill USD worth of cars.

they are attempting to rescue them i guess parts like tires, wheels, engine could be re-used??

or the plastics.

Posted by: Mike656

The ship appears from the pic to have flipped sideways, I bet the cars are totally messed up. And I doubt they would use anything if it was exposed to salt water.

Posted by: Garfbag

who want to go car fishing??

Posted by: Killa-b

i thought about the salt water as well

but they said, they were retreving cars from it sooo.

Posted by: Koofteh

Yeah, heard about that yesterday. I was gonna post an article, but I couldn't find one.

Think of all those cars lying there, at the bottom of the sea. I bet there's some nice M5 and M3s too, that's a sad picture.

Shawn

Posted by: wolwol

i'll bet it will be the fastest car underwater as of now
n the most expensive one too!

me

Posted by: mawti

I've always wondered if something like this has ever happened before. Anyone remember the movie 'The Perfect Storm'? There's this scene where it showed containers falling off a ship into the sea. When I saw that, I thought to myself "gee, i hope there wasn't anything expensive in those containers...especially not cars."

er...don't even know where im going with that. anyways, poor cars.

Posted by: greed

you guys dont care about the volvos???

how about all those XC90s, S60, S80, S40, and C70 that went down :-(

RIP

Posted by: Killa-b

meh

its just a ford

and the Saab's are just GM's

heheheheheh
muhahahahahhaha

BMW the LAST PURE Luxury brand in the world.

Posted by: eddie3390(",)

can't i go swimming, rip out an m3 engine, rinse it, dunk it in WD-40 and stuff it into my civic?

Posted by: mawti

Quote:

Originally posted by Killa-b
meh

these are not the words of any true car guy.

Posted by: Killa-b

im over it now.

i had my morning peroid, chkecked to see if my friends BMW was on the VIN list of the cargo ship and its not.

but trust me.

deep inside, there is a significant part of my soul missing.

Posted by: Appleman

That's one hell of a sacrifice. I can't believe BMW would have done that to save the rest of the world from seeing the ugly Saab's and Volvo's.

Thank you BMW!

Posted by: greed

errr everyone underestimates volvos ....

hahahhahha did u kno another boat crashed into the wreck???

lol i thought that was the funniest thing ive ever heard of

Posted by: Mike656

Quote:

Originally posted by greed
errr everyone underestimates volvos ....

hahahhahha did u kno another boat crashed into the wreck???

lol i thought that was the funniest thing ive ever heard of

Yeah, its a VERY busy shipping lane. Now they got a french warship guarding it and warning other ships. I heard on my local AM news station that over 2900 of the cars were BMW's

, the rest were the others.

Posted by: 323iT

nnnnnooooooooooooooooooo