{"id":136471,"date":"2010-01-04T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/gm-offering-to-help-dealers-remodel-with-a-few-conditions\/"},"modified":"2010-01-04T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T19:01:00","slug":"report-gm-offering-to-help-dealers-remodel-with-a-few-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/136471","title":{"rendered":"Report: GM offering to help dealers remodel, with a few conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/carbuying\/\" rel=\"tag\">Car Buying<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\" rel=\"tag\">GM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100104\/RETAIL\/301049959\/1259\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/87189985_opt.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming out of bankruptcy with four fewer brands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> wants to help its dealers present a fresh face to the public. So it&#8217;s offering dealers a deal of its own: remodel your dealerships and GM will help pay for it. Ah, but just like a clever salesman, GM has a few conditions on its offer. For one, any dealer in the business of selling new cars other than GM models must separate them from The General&#8217;s products. Also, while the renovations should take about three years, GM won&#8217;t be sending dealers a check for something like five to 10 years. And when the money does come, the amount each dealer receives won&#8217;t be based on their receipts for the renovations, but rather sales performance. Suddenly that new shiny showroom courtesy of the Mothership ain&#8217;t looking so new and shiny. <\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t know exactly what a remodeled GM dealership will look like, Automotive News reports that they will feature renovated entryways, new reception desks and &#8211; wait for it &#8211; free WiFi! Take that Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100104\/RETAIL\/301049959\/1259\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; sub. req. | Image: Scott Olson\/Getty]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/gm-offering-to-help-dealers-remodel-with-a-few-conditions\/\">Report: GM offering to help dealers remodel, with a few conditions<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:01:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/gm-offering-to-help-dealers-remodel-with-a-few-conditions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19302084\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/04\/gm-offering-to-help-dealers-remodel-with-a-few-conditions\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Car Buying, GM Coming out of bankruptcy with four fewer brands, General Motors wants to help its dealers present a fresh face to the public. So it&#8217;s offering dealers a deal of its own: remodel your dealerships and GM will help pay for it. Ah, but just like a clever salesman, GM has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}