Unalaska, AK – The Cougar Ace car carrier arrived in Portland, Oregon at about 2 a.m. this morning with most of the nearly 5,000 Mazda vehicles onboard believed to be intact. But those cars won't be sold as new vehicles, the company said in a press release yesterday.

Mazda spokesman Jeremy Barnes said the decision was made before the ship arrived in Portland, where the company plans to inspect the vehicles sometime in the next two weeks.

Barnes said the cars would have a full factory warranty, and that their vehicle identification numbers would be posted on Mazda's website so buyers will know if they're getting a Cougar Ace vehicle. He said the company hadn't determined yet at what percentage of the original value the cars would be sold, or how much money had been lost as a result of the shipping accident.