{"id":197947,"date":"2010-01-19T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49241"},"modified":"2010-01-19T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:00:38","slug":"gm-offering-pontiac-customers-service-perks-to-keep-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/197947","title":{"rendered":"GM offering Pontiac customers service perks to keep business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49242 aligncenter\" title=\"2009 Pontiac G8 GXP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2009_pontaic_g8_gxp_sedan_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After General Motors decided to kill Oldsmobile in 2004, 80 percent of Oldsmobile drivers have moved onto non-GM brands. Hoping to prevent the situation with Pontiac owners, GM is offering them four free maintenance visits during 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s to keep the relationship with the Buick-GMC dealer,\u201d said Brian Sweeney, general manager of Buick-GMC. \u201cWe thought the best way to do that was through service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GM mailed out the offer last month to customers who own a 1999 or later Pontiac purchased new or as a certified used vehicle. Sweeney says that that&#8217;s about a million people. Buyers can redeem the offer, good for oil changes and tire rotations, at any Buick\/GMC dealership in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20100118\/RETAIL05\/100119832\/1147#ixzz0d2O65T8d\">Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qpodaVWWZGcc7NLBjweMw5UnhA0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qpodaVWWZGcc7NLBjweMw5UnhA0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qpodaVWWZGcc7NLBjweMw5UnhA0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qpodaVWWZGcc7NLBjweMw5UnhA0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=nv4Y_yvXmJM:6-nLqreRWmc:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After General Motors decided to kill Oldsmobile in 2004, 80 percent of Oldsmobile drivers have moved onto non-GM brands. Hoping to prevent the situation with Pontiac owners, GM is offering them four free maintenance visits during 2010. \u201cIt\u2019s to keep the relationship with the Buick-GMC dealer,\u201d said Brian Sweeney, general manager of Buick-GMC. \u201cWe thought [&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-197947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197947","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=197947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}