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Guaruja 07-17-2012 12:47 PM

RORO Ships
 
Not sure if this has been posted - but it's a quick video showing Toyota's Roll On / Roll Off ships. Quite a few FR-S seen driving off the ship. This is how all of our toys got delivered from Japan:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/...d-of-cars.html

Chewie4299 07-17-2012 07:08 PM

Very cool. I never knew that was how they did it. Makes perfect sense.

zoomzoomers 07-17-2012 07:11 PM

Cool! Thanks for the post.

W2 07-17-2012 07:42 PM

Simply amazing how many cars they can hold in that 1 ship. I would love to take a walk through, or maybe drive.

kwood9000 07-17-2012 08:04 PM

Very cool! Thanks!

shinjiro n 07-17-2012 08:06 PM

I saw a video a long time ago interviewing the driver in Japan who load up the ships, those guys are amazing! Also my dealer invoice actually showed me what ship my car came on, the Mighty London Highway!

Smitty_89 07-17-2012 08:53 PM

I saw my Firestorm FR-S!! Its gonna be here soon...lol

ike44 07-17-2012 09:03 PM

How do the guys who drive those cars on and off get in them in the first place? It looked like there was all of 1 foot between cars.

Smitty_89 07-17-2012 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ike44 (Post 321462)
How do the guys who drive those cars on and off get in them in the first place? It looked like there was all of 1 foot between cars.

You go in order, so the first car that they drive off is not between two cars and then you drive off the next car and so on...I would assume.

ike44 07-17-2012 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smitty_89 (Post 321473)
You go in order, so the first car that they drive off is not between two cars and then you drive off the next car and so on...I would assume.

Ahhhhhh, now that I actually think about it, that makes a lot of sense.

kendalldwhite 07-17-2012 09:18 PM

no that cars being delivered in Houston sorry

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smitty_89 (Post 321441)
I saw my Firestorm FR-S!! Its gonna be here soon...lol


kramerica_industries 07-17-2012 11:06 PM

Great post thx!

alex86 07-18-2012 05:44 AM

good post. imagine the 3000 cars delivered every week in a country....

rick 07-18-2012 06:23 AM

That shows clearly how and where the initial few miles are clocked in a new car! :) very cool!


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