The burning cargo ship in the Atlantic is carrying Porsches, Volkswagens, and Bentleys. The reports say that there are 1,100 Porsche and 189 Bentley luxury cars. Another article - this one USA Today - says there are 4,000 cars in total.
And what's up for the receiving owners? The USA Today article shows a tweet from Matt "Park Cars" Farah: "I just got the call from my dealer. My car is now adrift, possibly on fire, in the middle of the ocean."
Absolutely always, without exception, in an article on cars is the the clicker bait article below:
Grimsby: Unsold 2020 SUVS are almost being given away.
Today's picture is of dust covered vehicles in the open air. Wouldn't it have to be an arid region somewhere? Perhaps the desert? How far from Grimsby will we travel to get our unsold SUV? Will it come across the ocean?
Pinterest has pictures of thousands and thousands of cars "deteriorating in storage lots". But it is snopes.com that has checked the facts and say that this is false. Here's whats snopes says:
"Although the displayed photographs are real, they are several years old (reflecting conditions that existed back in 2009), and do not depict what is claimed in the accompanying text." They go on to say:
"Even the text in the faux “Unsold Cars” article is misleading: According to The Truth About Cars, “Sheerness is one of the leading ports for the importation of cars to the United Kingdom.” The updated photos showing all those cars in the U.K. aren’t unsold inventory waiting to be shipped; they are the precise opposite — these are cars in the pipeline that dealers have ordered, not a vast graveyard of autos waiting to rust."
See the pictures and read the snopes article HERE. And today in 2022 4,000 car owners who will have to figure out how to get their cars during a car shortage.
Here's my version of sand - patterns at the shore in Florida a few years ago.
Every day at the beach is a different beach. Yesterday the water receded revealing sandbars that brought the walkers, shell hunters and frolicking dogs.
