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First GM Money Back Guarantee Return a Corvette
Jalopnik ^ | 10/15/2009 | Not listed

Posted on 10/15/2009 1:09:58 PM PDT by nascarnation

Since GM's 60-day money-back return policy started, there've been around 150,000 retail sales and only one confirmed return. A manual transmission Corvette was returned after the driver tired of rowing gears. What'd he get instead? An automatic model.


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He/she wanted to do it automatically, I guess.
1 posted on 10/15/2009 1:09:59 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

I’ve noticed in the small print that it is a “Money Back Guarantee” or “A $500 incentive.” I’d wager that many dealers put the $500 incentive on the paperwork as a default and many customers don’t catch it. I have to wonder how many have attempted to return the vehicles but got caught in the fine print.

Pure speculation on my part.....


2 posted on 10/15/2009 1:17:47 PM PDT by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: nascarnation
He gave up a Corvette with a floor shift? What was he thinking?
3 posted on 10/15/2009 1:19:18 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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I don’t understand what you mean exactly. In other words the dealer can opt to do either one? $500 or take the car back? because the depreciation is well over $500, so I know what I’d do as a dealer...


4 posted on 10/15/2009 1:20:20 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: nascarnation
They make it sound successful with just one return in 150,000 sales. First, the program started 9/14 so, by the 30-day min rule, the 1st possible return could have only been yesterday. Second, many of the free-car-for-60-days artists will not even start to show up for another month.
5 posted on 10/15/2009 1:20:28 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: nascarnation
A Corvette with an automatic transmission. I'm going to say that again because I just made a Vette-owning colleague cringe. A Corvette with an automatic transmission. I hope they took those uneconomical wide tires off as well and offered him a hybrid option.

I think my friend is going to kill me now.

6 posted on 10/15/2009 1:25:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: nascarnation
All of my vehicles, Vettes included, except my minivans have been manual trannies.

A good friend of mine bought a Vette after driving mine. His wife made him buy the slush box. I still will not let him live it down.

7 posted on 10/15/2009 1:35:02 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: domenad

The ads have a fine print that says that the $500 rebate is an option instead of the ability to turn it in. My bet is that the dealers add the rebate as a matter of SOP. If the buyer doesn’t catch it, they lose the option to return the vehicle.


8 posted on 10/15/2009 1:47:28 PM PDT by CSM (Business is too big too fail... Government is too big to succeed... I am too small to matter...)
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To: mountainlion
The only Corvette I liked....split window Sting Ray


9 posted on 10/15/2009 1:51:23 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: mountainlion

All Corvettes are “Floor Shift”. Some happen to be manual while others are automatic. Maybe he has a bum left knee.


10 posted on 10/15/2009 1:51:58 PM PDT by Adams
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To: newfreep

The 63s and the 67s are nice. From the 70s on they are butt ugly.


11 posted on 10/15/2009 2:00:09 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: nascarnation
That's it. His Man Card has been revoked.


12 posted on 10/15/2009 2:48:26 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: nascarnation
Did you click on the video at your link?

Corvette Shows Why Germany's Rechtsfahren Law Exists

Getting passed at 160 mph. Dude.

13 posted on 10/15/2009 2:56:27 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: newfreep

I always liked that body style (60’s Stingrays) best. Got a friend with a blue convertible version. Sweet car.


14 posted on 10/15/2009 2:58:18 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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Realize though that the car with the camera inside has a speedo in kilometers/hour (Euro units).

So he’s doing about 100 mph.


15 posted on 10/15/2009 3:01:12 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Ask any fireman what most of their recent calls are and many will say car fires. They noticed an alarming increase since cash for clunkers happened.


16 posted on 10/15/2009 3:06:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: nascarnation

Obviously....and peeing himself in the process.


17 posted on 10/15/2009 3:08:16 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Huck
Here's nice.


18 posted on 10/15/2009 3:10:11 PM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

are you talking about arson?


19 posted on 10/15/2009 3:19:14 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Most likely. They say they’re seeing a major spike in car fires.


20 posted on 10/15/2009 4:17:40 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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