GM has announced the return of employee pricing for its 2008 models and the 2009 Pontiac Vibe.
The new sales promotion will include employee pricing on up to 90 percent of GM's 2008 vehicles. The program is expected to start Wednesday and go through Labor Day.
“We are going to have an employee-discount-for-everyone program,” GM spokesman John McDonald confirmed to Automotive News today. “We are going to issue a press release tomorrow morning with the details.”
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...and employees get an extra 10% on top!
Posted by lowest iq | August 19, 2008 3:01 AM
Posted on August 19, 2008 03:01
Does anyone know how well the Vibe stacks up against it's brother, the Toyota Matrix? I imagine the Vibe is cheaper and I'm wondering what was cheapened under the Pontiac badge.
Posted by sintekk | August 19, 2008 3:14 AM
Posted on August 19, 2008 03:14
Why can't they just put a lower price on the car and stop this cheap "Employee Pricing" crap....
I have yet to see any other manufacture (BMW, MB, Acura, Hyundai) resort to such low IQ marketing tactics....
Stop showing comericial of flying "Super Accords" and using comic book style wriitng.. It just devalues the line and shows people who your target audience is....
Posted by Andrew | August 19, 2008 9:20 AM
Posted on August 19, 2008 09:20
GM is such a joke! Did you know this "employee" pricing that they just made available to everyone is normally not even available to dealership employees? Only factory employees and District and Regional Sales Reps (and their families) can normally get this "employee" pricing. They say f*ck our dealers they only help to sell the vehicles we cram down their throats and force them to order and buy at our invoice price less holdback. Also they are getting rid of leasing like Chrysler. Smart move to stop losing money on their inflated residuals at the auction however now they won't sell any new Saabs, Cadillacs, Hummers, or anything else that was mostly leased before. Nice try to stop the innevitable failure of GM!
Posted by Cappy | August 19, 2008 12:31 PM
Posted on August 19, 2008 12:31
Cappy
That's because dealers are NOT employees.
They are middle men.
They are not employed by GM.
Dealers' employees need to talk to their employers about what kinds of deals they can get.
If the dealers and their employees don't want to be GM dealers, they could pick up Ford, Mazda, Honda, Toyota......
Wouldn't think this was too hard to figure out.
The manufacturers need to sell cars to someone. They can't give them away at cost to everyone.
Maybe I should get employee pricing because a the parent of a friend of mine when I was in grade school worked at a transmission plant. Sounds reasonable to me.
Posted by teldar | August 20, 2008 7:41 AM
Posted on August 20, 2008 07:41