Mazda Sends 4700 Brand-New Cars to the Crusher

they could have given these to schools to work on

GOD WILL JUDGE THEM ACCORDINGLY.

Well you see.. thats why this world is going to end very soon cause we cant seem to salvage anything anymore and just waist as much of the earth as we possibly can… besides mazdas reputation would go way the hell up if they manage to sell a bunch of their screwed up cars to us for cheaper… as long as we know what we are buying… anyone anywhere would be fine with it!

so…

but yea they should have sold them to movies that needed cars to crash or just gave them away for any other good reason….jackasses

this guy would have been more than glad ta take a speed6 off their hands

They could have at least given them to fire departments for extraction training. The cars would eventually get destroyed anyway and they would do some good, but overall it was a good idea to crush them. The cars would most likely have problems later on.

Mazda, It just feels right……..to DESTROY them!

yo , Mazda definetly came out on top, i’m sure insurence gave a huge payout and they got the scrap for all the vehicles- non running vehicles in scrap yards go for like $200-400 X 4700. and they took the tires n wheels off so add a little more on that yet.

haha, if your that worried about miatas you might want to check your sexual preference..

Mazda could probably get more money on scrap or reusing the parts from the cars than they could for selling them. Its nothing more than a smart finacial move for mazda.

They should have had a mass giveaway. The first 4700 people get a car.

they should of donated them to automive schools and programs.

that makes sense. the cars looked undamaged but they could have beem damaged in a small way which could have caused some major problems in the future for those cars. i would have done the same thing

That’s fucked up

That’s fucked up

C’ant we save tire, wheel, wiper, glass ???

Not every day does a no milage car go to the crusher. Sad indeed…

Crooked used car dealers everywhere are in tears. They could have sold these cars claiming slight water damage and make a killing.

i wouldn’t mind buying one of those for half the retail price or something like that but I guess Mazda made the right decision and destroying them all but still sad to see a brand new $20,000-$40,000 car gone like that.

im crying right now

Shoot, wish they could have dropped me off a Mazdaspeed 3 before destroying them all!

damn, very good qc’s up at mazda, quality controls must be rigiurus

damn…they shoulda just donated them to the movie producers or w/e intead of crushing em!!

It is a shame that so many (potentially) perfectly good cars were destroyed, the real travesty is the way it was done: every part was destroyed for economic reasons! Sure the airbags are so sensitive the they may have been effected by the high salt content in the air, but there are many components that could have been utilised in someway rather than destroyed. For example: drilling holes in every (nearly unrecycleable) tyre to ensure “total write off” status is insane.

OK, so I will probably date myself with this one but destroying large numbers of cars is nothing new. However the one that stands out in my mind was the very first year Honda shipped cars to the U.S.. The DOT found out that exhaust fumes could seep into the car via the defroster. Yes, they were air cooled engines and used a heat/defroster system that worked on the same principle as the old VW bugs. Even though the part required for the recall would have cost less than $20 Honda knew the labor and time needed to repair everyone of them would not allow them to sell on the scheduled date so they had every single one of them destroyed. It is important to know that when a manufacture destroys the whole lot of cars they can write it off as a loss but ONLY IF EVERY SINGLE PART IS DESTROYED. This means they can’t sell the tires, engines, transmission or nothing. I remember seeing photos of Hondas stacked right on top of each other on flatbed trucks to be taken and destroyed. They were so small (nickname Cracker Jack Boxes) that they could stack them sideways on flatbed trucks.

Though it is a shame that so many Mazdas had to be crushed (I do have a soft spot for them) I think it was the most responsible thing for the company to do. I bet if they had ended up selling them or donating them, someone would have said “Oh, it’s probably Ford just trying to make more money, who cares who gets hurt.” However, Mazda and FO-Mo-Co took the hit, and they should be commended for that.

Thats pretty sad.

What a waste. They could have been used for so so many things. Such a shame in this day and age. At least they were recycled.

That just shows you exactly how much those cars are worth and what they cost to build! cookie cutter car manufacturing, Im sure it didnt even hurt mazda! Oh well.