That GM bailout hard at work...

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That GM bailout hard at work...

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Nearly 30 percent of GM's 60-day money-back participants returned cars
http://www.leftlanenews.com/nearly-thir ... -cars.html
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Good lord. I seriously thing GM may be finished.

I, somehow, found myself in the middle of one of those big 'ol truck conversations with my redneck brother-in-law. He and one of his friends were discussing how shitty Chevrolet and GMC HD trucks are compared to the F250s and F350s. Sadly, I was right there with them. I have driven several of these big 'ol trucks over the years and I can definitely tell a major quality difference between Ford and Chevrolet.

Sick a fork in 'em. They're done.
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That is a little deceiving. Half the cars returned under the guarantee program were for the same model with a higher trim level. I am actually guilty of that as I had signed the paperwork to purchase a new Granma that was a trim level below my old car, but I did not get the car off the dealers lot when I figured out that my wussy butt could not handle the lesser trim level. So I pulled the car back on the lot and picked up an LS model that was exactly like my old car, minus the power passenger seat.
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The KEY to the article is this:

What wasn’t heavily advertised however was the fact that the money-back guarantee program was only available for buyers that opted out of an optional $500 discount from the purchase price.

Which means that those people who took another $500 off the price couldnt return the car if they wanted to. Wonder who many of THOSE would have? That might have made it 50%!
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