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You seem to think this is a big deal, its not. Sure some nice cars are toast right now but they aren't all Porsches which you seemed was going to upset their production numbers. Fact is the 1100 cars represents 1.5% of Porsche's total production. The 189 Bentleys coincidentally represents about 1.5% of their annual production (12,400 cars/suvs annually).
The cars are all insured, nobody loses a dollar(except the insurance companies) and car factories build cars so a few more weeks of production and the cars will all be built again.
Are you kidding? A few more weeks to replace all those cars? You are nuts if you think that. It is a big deal. It's a lot of money lost on 4000 vehicles, not 1100. Plus all the people waiting for their car that they won't be getting.
Are you kidding? A few more weeks to replace all those cars? You are nuts if you think that. It is a big deal. It's a lot of money lost on 4000 vehicles, not 1100. Plus all the people waiting for their car that they won't be getting.
Yeah then she tried the "your out of my market" so I can't sell to you. I said I have a townhouse 8 miles from your dealership........then it was umm, well I have to see if we have an open build slot.
I called on a 1800 mile used 992. I didn't like the options so I said for that money I'd rather buy new. She started the spiel but then changed her tune when I said great lets order.
I’d never deal with her again. I just texted my sales friend now, has zero 992 allocations and hasn’t had one for a few years. It is a slower volume place though. Join some Porsche Facebook groups, occasionally a guy from Chicago or FL will mention an allocation… figuring they’ll go with the highest bidder.
One company owns both Porsche dealers in the Twin Cities, they lost 17 Porsches in this fire.
These days, the old thing of no one left aboard who is alive isn't quite the finders/keepers story we are told as children.
Let's say find a Nazi bomber in international waters loaded with treasure. It is all yours, right? Nope! It's a government aircraft that belongs to the succeeding government. If it were the US, then it takes an act of Congress to declare that it is theirs no more.
As complex as government vessels are, I suspect the flags, owners, and insurance would be equally tough for civilian vessels.
In this case, if they get control of it, there is probably a nice finder's reward or profit in selling it back, depending on how it is set up, to not bother with doing the individual cargo itself.
Are you kidding? A few more weeks to replace all those cars? You are nuts if you think that. It is a big deal. It's a lot of money lost on 4000 vehicles, not 1100. Plus all the people waiting for their car that they won't be getting.
Do you realize those cars were 100% insured? Not a single dollar lost on the cargo (cars).
Factories make cars, so based on their production rate is when those cars will be replaced. So someone will have to wait a few months to buy another car, so what!
Do you realize those cars were 100% insured? Not a single dollar lost on the cargo (cars).
Factories make cars, so based on their production rate is when those cars will be replaced. So someone will have to wait a few months to buy another car, so what!
Without going into a lot of detail here, if those cars were destroyed, there is a loss - the only question is to what entity. If an insurance company pays for the cargo it is a loss to the insurance company. I would expect some type of deductible to also be a loss. Value cannot be destroyed without some party incurring the loss.
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Do you realize those cars were 100% insured? Not a single dollar lost on the cargo (cars).
Factories make cars, so based on their production rate is when those cars will be replaced. So someone will have to wait a few months to buy another car, so what!
Do you realize insurers are businesses, who will take a MASSIVE hit for this?
Not a single dollar lost? Ask the insurance companies.
Really? Don't be an ass, It's not just the "luxury" car buyers who are out. There are people who were waiting for their under 50K cars too.
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