Not even if insurance pays out and you can salvage parts?
Road to Rotary: Japan to France in an RX7
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Best worst case scenario is that I get my money back (i'm about 35k into it) and get to keep the car to rebuild. That's best worse case. I'm going for what I believe is right though. Will see what we can prove with the lawyers and with my sponsors.
Caporegime
They wrote "driver error". WTF.
It it a stationary object, with skid marks sideways to the mud. What was it doing driving on the mud? Driver's error. That boils my blood.
It it a stationary object, with skid marks sideways to the mud. What was it doing driving on the mud? Driver's error. That boils my blood.
The fact they wrote that in an email is golden.
Caporegime
It also looks like it squashed a orange cone under the front wheel.
You mentioned that you believe it to be a 40-50k car, I'd be working hard to evidence that (I realise that isn't easy with a rare car) because I can't see this being anything other than a total loss claim, maybe with a salvage buy back option.
Any decent insurance policy will have betterment clauses which means that you will be blocked from being any better off. Getting your costs back and keeping the car would come under that. Getting a market value however for a like for like replacement (again, near impossible with the nature of the car) is within the realms of possibility.
Mostly I'm just sorry to hear about the bad luck. All you can do is reside yourself to the fact that the incident was completely out of your hands and make the best of the bad situation.
I'm fortunate, if you can call it that, to have really good relationships with toprank europe, who is an expert in these things, as well connections to places that can attest to this, with reports from inspections and work done to the car by toprank in japan prior to the sending.
This won't be hard to document.
It also won't be hard to prove there is a future loss of not having the car through my sponsors. They will all be willing to write up our deal details. Whilst it might be hard to quantify that loss, it won't be hard to prove there would be one.
This has gone up the company very quickly. It's now got over 750k views on tiktok and the company has asked toprank not to post about it and remove the posts.
I've heard that it's caused a ******* **** storm internally, which is good.
My contact at mazda is contacting his connections in the press, to see if we can get it put in the Sun, Telegraph, autoexpress... Nothing like lighting a fire and pouring a **** ton of petrol on it.
This happens too often and people get ****** for it. If I didn't have the reach and connections I do, I'd just have to take it. Another claim, another victim losing out. Shame this time they happened to do it to me, who has nothing better to do than make this my full time job in taking them done and fighting for everything I have lost.
It gets so much juicier than this too. You should see what it says in the report THEY sent!
A little clip:
Brief explanation of damage:
Driver departs from Dk8 with screeching Tyres...
It's really not helping them in ANY way, so plays nicely into my press run! Lawyers were like WTF? This is great for us
Caporegime
That is the saddest part in the whole thing. The point that the company that is in charge of looking after your delivery just couldn't give a rats ass. Long gone are the days of a thing called customer service. You only get customer service when it effects their publicity.
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Caporegime
Yeah I guess this is Antwerp? Proper dodgy port from what I have read in the past. Isn't it the European gateway for white powder?
Zeebrugge
Not like Belgian bureaucracy is any better
Soldato
This is awful to see, I can't believe someone would even think it's ok to drive someone elses car in this way.
I'm so angry just seeing that picture.
I'm so angry just seeing that picture.
Soldato
wow.. what a kicker! hopefully a good outcome from this.
I've been a passenger on a cargo ship and you don't want to know the way the dock workers drive brand new cars on and off the ferry and around the dock. Like someone mentioned above, so many cars are taken to body shops due to damage sustained in transit.
And here we are nannying our cars around for the first 1000 miles when they've been redlined from cold on a foggy winter morning around a dockyard
It's nigh on 20 years ago now but I knew someone who used to unload cars at the dock as a temp job while studying and they said exactly the same thing. Start car, nail it to the holding point as quickly as possible, run back.I've been a passenger on a cargo ship and you don't want to know the way the dock workers drive brand new cars on and off the ferry and around the dock. Like someone mentioned above, so many cars are taken to body shops due to damage sustained in transit.
And here we are nannying our cars around for the first 1000 miles when they've been redlined from cold on a foggy winter morning around a dockyard