Anybody remember the Cougar Ace, the ship transporting Mazdas that rolled over in 2006?

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/01/vert-a-pac-train-cars-kept-your-chevy-vegas-price-in-check/

60 degrees aint nothing...

Odd that the article went offline...here's the Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5TjUYg_vdBUJ:www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys%3FcurrentPage%3Dall+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

(engage high-speed Page Down drive to get to the text)

GameboyRMH wrote: Odd that the article went offline...here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5TjUYg_vdBUJ:www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys%3FcurrentPage%3Dall+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk (engage high-speed Page Down drive to get to the text)

Saved by the Brits: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2009/05/features/cowboys-of-the-deep

Nice find, here's the all-on-one page link:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2009/05/features/cowboys-of-the-deep/viewall

Too bad it doesn't have all the pics and diagrams of the original. I'll see if I can pull it out of my laptop's browser cache later today and make a PDF.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130202075945/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all

RX Reven' wrote: Why, why, why doesn’t Mazda bring these to the US???

Simply put, the same reason we don't get any number of cars available elsewhere: Corporate brass doesn't think they'd sell enough to cover the Federalization costs (which are substantial).