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Hundreds of 5-year-old never-used municipal vehicles found in Miami.
" Bullwinkle"
30.04.2012 - 12:07
30.04.2012 - 12:07
you ever bought a brand new car only to forget where you put it? How about
300 of them? Well, Miami-Dade County did. The county "discovered" this fleet
of no-mileage vehicles after reading about them in a Spanish-language
newspaper there. But yeah, if you oppose more taxes and think gubbermint
wastes money, you're a radical wingnut Nazi racist something something
extremist, you are.
Hundreds of 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never
used
Have you ever bought a brand new cars only to forget where you put it? How
about 300 of them? Probably not - unless you're Miami-Dade County, which was
recently reunited with 298 vehicles it bought brand new between 2006 and
2007.
The county "discovered" this fleet of no-mileage vehicles after reading
about them in a Spanish-language newspaper there (see the source for more
images). Most of the misplaced motorcade is made up of Toyota Prius hybrids
whose warranties either expired with very few miles on the odo or will very
soon.
Looking to save some face, the county has rushed at least 123 of the hybrids
into service. The Toyota warranty covered
100,000 miles, but we're not sure if that covers cars parked for five of
those eight. We're also not sure what that much time in Miami heat and
humidity does to an unused hybrid powertrain, but it can't be good.
The county, as you probably guessed, is looking into how it lost so many
cars. The leading theory is that they might be part of Carlos Alvarez's time
as mayor. He was the mayor during the period the Toyotas were purchased, but
a 2011 recall election successfully removed him from office. Apparently the
voters "felt, among other reasons, that he had been behind multiple acts of
misappropriation of funds."
We've tried to contact Toyota to see what kind of warranty support these
cars will get but haven't had any luck so far. We'll update with their
response.
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