{"id":240984,"date":"2010-01-28T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=35164"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:20:48","slug":"gm%e2%80%99s-new-sale-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240984","title":{"rendered":"GM\u2019s New Sale Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35165\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/gms-new-sale-strategy\/sticky-gas-pedals\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sticky-gas-pedals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know its bad when you have to start attacking other car companies to make your own car&#8217;s mor appealing. It appears GM got their bashing\u00a0 campaign idea from a Honda dealer in Dallas, Texas who was trying to steal a few Toyota customers away by displaing a sign that read, &#8220;Our gas pedals don&#8217;t stick.&#8221; While it is quite funny, it seems like they are getting kind of desperate.\u00a0 General Motors just announced that they will be using a new incentive structure to lure Toyota car drivers towards GM vehicles. This incentive program\u00a0will be in\u00a0effect until the end of February. All of this comes after news that\u00a0Toyota had to recall more than two million cars due to sticking gas pedals. Not only did\u00a0Toyota have to recall two million cars,but several car rental\u00a0companies(Avis, Enterprise, National) are pulling a larger percentage of their rental fleet. Just some more bad press for Toyota.\u00a0Any current Toyota customer who wants to switch to a Buick, Cadillac\u00a0Chevrolet, or GMC\u00a0will be offered these three following deals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lease Customers: Waiver of three payments up to $1,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Financing Customers: 0% financing for 60 months<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cash Buyers: $1,000 Bonus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is going to be interesting to see if this will knock Toyota back a little bit or will they will be able to recover from a loss of their customer base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f1mGWnquZOU65t5devXmJ1NgmVw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f1mGWnquZOU65t5devXmJ1NgmVw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f1mGWnquZOU65t5devXmJ1NgmVw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f1mGWnquZOU65t5devXmJ1NgmVw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know its bad when you have to start attacking other car companies to make your own car&#8217;s mor appealing. It appears GM got their bashing\u00a0 campaign idea from a Honda dealer in Dallas, Texas who was trying to steal a few Toyota customers away by displaing a sign that read, &#8220;Our gas pedals don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240984","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\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}