Moto Miwa: First batch of BRZ's and FRS left Japan for Long Beach, CA

[Fascist Fish]

Originally Posted by feedbag

a guy at my work was looking at a pic similar to this, but its the vancouver, wa port where they off load, and he says in all seriousness "don't ever let them tell you they don't have they car you want in white."
i just laugh inside because he is one of my managers and obviously never been to a new car lot to see the cars that just got shipped in.

[Enemies]

Don't think all those are white. They look black, red, etc. if you look at the side of the cars instead. They must just be protected with some form of white plastic.

[Subaruwrxfan]

This thread is epic, you guys all rock.

[OrbitalEllipses]

Originally Posted by RRnold

What a great thread! Some of you have your gumshoe clockwork down! :happy0180:

The creep-fu is strong with these ones!

[karbon]

Originally Posted by Spaceywilly

I took a look at the last location the Altair Leader was at and it looks like it is also a car loading location.



I looked at the street view around this area and I don't recognize the cars in these lots, but it looks like it might be the kei cars that were manufactured at the BRZ plant before they switched to BRZ production.



http://g.co/maps/2aah2

So based on this and Moto's post, I am guessing that this location is where the BRZ/FRSs were loaded, and now it is picking up some other cars at the Yokohama port. Now I feel like I am stalking this boat...

I believe if you look at the image date, they are from November 2009. Good thinking though!

[Draco-REX]

I know that if I ever have my BRZ stolen, I can turn to this forum for help. By evening, I'll have the location of my car, the thief's address, and what he had for lunch.

But with this information glut, we're going to be dying during the two weeks while it's out in the Pacific and out of reach of open information like this. Only the transport company will know where it is.

[neutron256]

Originally Posted by feedbag

Hook me up :P

edit: Spaceywilly - Tokyo is closer to Gunma than Kobe is, also it seems the the Altair Leader parked on the south end of that inlet which is tooled for containers rather than cars (notice all of the cranes / containers). Though I could be wrong and they could have always changed the tooling since the photos were taken (2009). I'm having a hard time digging up information on the area and bing doesn't have imagery at the same level of detail they did for the Tokyo harbor.

This is a RoRo ship. Roll on, Roll off. It's not built for containers.

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by Enemies

Don't think all those are white. They look black, red, etc. if you look at the side of the cars instead. They must just be protected with some form of white plastic.

He knows that. It was hs point.

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by neutron256

This is a RoRo ship. Roll on, Roll off. It's not built for containers.

They still ship containers on them at times.

[feedbag]

Originally Posted by neutron256

This is a RoRo ship. Roll on, Roll off. It's not built for containers.

Originally Posted by Spaceywilly

Just to prevent any confusion, this is not a live image of BRZs being loaded onto a boat

look to the right of the ramp

edit: Altair Leader is heading out to sea

[dorkymork]

Originally Posted by feedbag

I'm definitely going to be clicking on this link an awful lot for the next two weeks

Looks like it has left the port.
ETA is May 15th.

[engee]

Originally Posted by dorkymork

Looks like it has left the port.
ETA is May 15th.

How'd you see the ETA?

[dorkymork]

Originally Posted by engee

How'd you see the ETA?

BALBOA (ETA 20120515120000)

This is listed just beneath the word "Cargo" on vessel details.
You can also see ETA here: http://marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdet...MMSI=432817000

The BALBOA is for the port, which is at/near Long Beach, CA.

[feedbag]

Just FYI that link I said this in is broke:

I'm definitely going to be clicking on this link an awful lot for the next two weeks

This is the correct link: http://aprs.fi/#!call=i%2F432817000&timerange=3600

Based on this it seems it's heading for BALBOA (ETA 20120515120000). Balboa port is down in Panama, it's most definitely not Long Beach :\

edit: beaten by dorkymork

Here's hoping they're making a stop in Long Beach on the way, maybe they're just going to a distribution center elsewhere. Though if it's the latter it brings out the ETA by a few weeks

edit: I hope dorkymork is right
edit2: hmmm. Either way, I trust Moto that a batch will be here within a few weeks, even if I got the wrong ship. Though the fact that it was at a Subaru warehouse / port is pretty damning evidence.