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Porsche confirms losses from Felicity Ace sinking after Lamborghini and Bentley pledged to replace 215 destroyed cars

Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has confirmed that the sports car brand lost more than 1000 customer cars when the cargo ship taking them to the US last month caught fire and sank. 

The Felicity Ace was transporting around 4000 Volkswagen Group cars from the Emden port in Germany to Davisville, Rhode Island, before a fire started in the hold from an as-yet unknown source.

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