You may recall that last year, part of the Porsche factory that produces the 911 caught fire and delayed some production for a short time. Because not all Porsches are produced in the same factory, most of the Porsche supply chain went unaffected.
Fast forward to 2008, and we see again why companies should always buy transportation of goods insurance. Turns out that early Wednesday morning a train was derailed in Dillenberg, Germany (wherever that is), which cause 20 brand new 911s and who knows how many other cars to be brutally damaged. Porsche lovers hearts are breaking across the world! Still in tight times, maybe Porsche can make more money with train crashes rather than a weak sales market…
Early Wednesday morning two heavily loaded freight trains collided just outside of Dillenberg, Germany. While the cause of the accident is not yet known, one of the trains was transporting an unknown number of luxury brand vehicles, including at least 20 Porsche 997s.
Some of the Porsche’s didn’t handle it too well as you can see on the photos below. Thankfully nothing too catastrophic happened as one of the trains was ferrying tankers of very flammable liquids.