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Old 05-06-2006 | 03:27 PM
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Re: GM tells dealer to pull Camaro ad.

Originally Posted by MENEGRANDE
The camaro won't be out until 2011
Care to make a bet?
Old 05-09-2006 | 01:03 PM
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Re: GM tells dealer to pull Camaro ad.

GM High Tech Performance claims the Camaro has been confirmed for production and will come out in 2009. If this is true i'll start putting money back now.
Old 05-09-2006 | 02:09 PM
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Re: GM tells dealer to pull Camaro ad.

Originally Posted by 94LT1Maro
GM High Tech Performance claims the Camaro has been confirmed for production and will come out in 2009. If this is true i'll start putting money back now.
See other threads about the subject.

Also, listen to our CamaroZ28.Com Podcast #33, we talk a bit about it:
http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=446223
Old 05-09-2006 | 09:25 PM
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Re: GM tells dealer to pull Camaro ad.

Originally Posted by Robert_Nashville
You have to understand that, with very few exceptions, when you are dealing with a car salesman, you are not usually dealing with intelligent life. They usually have no significant knowledge of the auto industry in general or of the brand of vehicle their dealership sells…most of them are just passing time until they find a real job or car salesman (or Credit Card collector) is the only job they can qualify for.

It’s very likely that if GM does announce that they are building the next Camaro, people on boards like this will know the details long before most salesmen bother to become aware of it!

In late 1978 I was ready to order a brand new, Black/Gold 1979 TransAm and went to the largest Pontiac dealerships in the Seattle area to order it. At the time, I owned a 1976 50th Anniversary Black/Gold TransAm, of which there were less than 3,000 made (only about 600 with T-Tops). The idiot SALES MANAGER of this dealership argued with me for 20 minutes claiming the GM never produced the car I owned and had with me that night.

Needless to say, I left that dealership and ordered my 1979 from a much smaller dealer closer to home (in Bremerton, WA) who had a salesman that actually knew something about the cars Pontiac made.

Never underestimate the stupidity of a car salesman and if you happen to find a good one, don’t loose his business card or cell phone number!

Hey Rob, there's a 1976 Black and Gold T/A sitting at a wrecker here. I was going to ask him what he wanted for it. It's just sitting there waiting to be restored. It's rough, but the paint is original and the body is all there. wonder what it'd be worth if I restored it?
Old 05-11-2006 | 03:30 PM
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Re: GM tells dealer to pull Camaro ad.

Originally Posted by Fbodfather
actually, we can't -- it's against the law. It's called Anti-Trust. Any employee of any manufacturer (at least in automobiles) is strictly prohibited from telling a dealer what they can or cannot charge for a new car or truck.

If the dealer wants to sell a $30,000 car for 1 dollar or $50,000, we cannot have anything to do with affecting the selling price.

I know that sounds foolish, but trust me -- the day I went to work for GM, I had to sign a pile of papers a mile deep......this law was one of them that I had to acknowledge by signing a paper saying thus.

That said? We don't like it any more than you do....it gives EVERYONE a bad reputation....including the dealers (and there are many more good dealers than bad) who conduct their business in a fair and gracious manner.
Yeah I had to sign a ton of the same paperwork, and probably more when I started working at ***cough cough*** NISSAN ***cough cough***... My job has enough interaction with dealers on a daily basis that I know very well these laws Scott speaks of.
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