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300 New "Misplaced" Vehicles

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What were they thinking?
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 the hybrid bits for eight years or 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.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/04/25/hundreds-of-5-year-old-municipal-vehicles-found-in-miami-that-we/?ncid=txtlnkwbauto00000002
 
I was in the Philippines in 1990, after Cory Aquino had become President following the ousting of old Fred Marcos. A shipment of new Mercedes had sailed into port, bound for homes amongst the players in PI who had dough. Not surprisingly, there was a glitch on the paperwork of the cars, and, you guessed it, the Mercedes' were confiscated by the government. Shortly thereafter, Cory and her corrupt colleagues were riding around Manila in new German machines, for free. :roll:
 
loomixguy said:
I was in the Philippines in 1990, after Cory Aquino had become President following the ousting of old Fred Marcos. A shipment of new Mercedes had sailed into port, bound for homes amongst the players in PI who had dough. Not surprisingly, there was a glitch on the paperwork of the cars, and, you guessed it, the Mercedes' were confiscated by the government. Shortly thereafter, Cory and her corrupt colleagues were riding around Manila in new German machines, for free. :roll:

Wonder if they had been Toyota Prius's if they would have confiscated them? :D
 
So what does that work out to in wasted $s?

"rushed 123 into service"

What have those employees been driving for the last 5 years :lol: :lol:
 
if they forgot about them, then they didn't need them to begin with...

instead of rushing them into service.. an auction would get the city better use of them...
 

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