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Originally Posted by tabs
Yep the mfg will collect from the carrier, they will be fixed up bright shiny and new and sent out to the dealers as new...they have never been titled so there will be no salvage title or record of them being smashed...Maybe they will offer a deep discount to some unsuspecting nouveau riche Chump who thinks he is getting over on the dealer....YEP a sucker is born every minute.
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The liability is so huge that they will not repair cars that are damaged like this. They usually don't even use the parts. They just go of to a crusher. If a part off a damaged car ever failed on a customer's car, you could say punitive damages faster than Tabs can say Jack Robinson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_of_North_America,_Inc._v._Gore A few years ago there was an article in Car & Driver about a ship that got caught in some extreme weather and ended up sitting at about a 45 degree angle until everything got sorted out. I believes it was a Mazda shipment. None of the cars were even physically damaged by striking another, but the company couldn't guaranty that the cars would work after being at see for so long, and couldn't guaranty that the parts hadn't been compromised. The whole shipment was crushed other than a Miata or something like that that was allowed to be used as a test vehicle at a local community college.