Cargo ship that sank with 4,000 supercars worth $400 million onboard will never be recovered

Back in 2022, there was a real loss for the supercar community when a cargo ship called Felicity Ace sank with 4,000 supercars worth $400 million onboard, but the worst part about it is that it will never be recovered.

Imagine watching the freshest and most brand-new Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae roll off the production line, get loaded onto a big cargo ship, and then learning that it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is unfortunately what happened when the Felicity Ace caught fire and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic with almost 4,0000 VW Group supercars on board in 2022.

The loss was significant, with 15 Aventador Ultimae going down with the ship that Lamborghini restarted production of it, just to make up for it, and the kicker is: no one will be able to see those cars ever again.

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Felicity Ace is a cargo ship that sank with 4,000 supercars onboard

A lot of supercar fans will remember the devastating moment in 2022 when the cargo ship Felicity Ace sank with almost 4,000 supercars onboard.

The supercars all came from the VW Group, and in the 3,965 onboard there were Porsches, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Audis, and VWs among them.

The biggest loss out of the group was the fact that 15 Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae that went down with the ship, the loss was so big that Lamborghini had to restart production of the Aventador to make up for it.

The $400 million deep-sea garage will never be recovered

On February 16, 2022, the Felicity Ace caught fire about 90 nautical miles off the Azores in Portugal, and all 22 crew members on board managed to escape unharmed; rumours say that an EV battery on board caught fire.

Salvage crews tried to tow the massive cargo ship, but on March 1, the vessel capsized and sank in waters that were almost 3,000 meters deep, the same depth as the Titanic is now located.

At three kilometers below sea level, the wreck is far beyond salvageable, and although there could be some chance to dredge up the ship, it would cost more than the supercars and risk a lot of serious environmental damage.

The Felicity Ace has become an underwater time capsule of luxury in the 2020s, a strange, ghostly underwater garage full of supercars that never got to the road. The post Cargo ship that sank with 4,000 supercars worth $400 million onboard will never be recovered appeared first on Supercar Blondie.