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GM Plans To Keep Pontiac Owners Loyal Through Good Service
Owners of Pontiac vehicles don’t need to worry. Pontiac still has over 1 million vehicles on the road with warranties and General Motors is bound by federal law to provide replacement parts for at least 10 years or the useful life of a vehicle. Not only will GM continue to provide outstanding service but will help the Pontiac owners transition into one of the four strong GM brands – Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac.
GM’s goal is to focus on its customers and help Pontiac owners switch to a GM brand rather than going elsewhere. The plan for retaining these customers is by giving Pontiac owners information on nearby GM Dealers, enabling all GM dealers to provide parts for Pontiacs, encouraging owners to use OnStar to locate GM dealers and making special tools available to non-Pontiac dealers.
Sadly when GM decided to phase out Oldsmobile in 2004, the owners chose other non-GM brands. General Motors spokesman John McDonald quoted for Automotive News stating that, “We have to do a better job of focusing on what the customers’ needs are and how we can respond better than we have in the past”
With this new method, service is the most effective way to reach the Pontiac owners and will allow GM to retain their customers better after Pontiac has phased out. Chances will be that Pontiac customers will be able to get service at the stores where they bought their vehicles and GM plans to communicate better and more often than it did with Oldsmobile owners. Spokesman McDonald stated “We will reach out and tell them that we’d love to keep their business, and here’s where a dealer is and who is close by.”
If you are a Pontiac owner, you can count on Todd Wenzel Buick GMC and Todd Wenzel Chevrolet to provide you with the right parts and best service for your vehicle. Come and visit either of our two locations.
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Todd Wenzel Buick GMC Todd Wenzel Chevrolet
2727 28th Street 3156 Highland Dr.
Kentwood, MI 49512 Hudsonville, MI 49426
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5 Stars for the 2010 GMC Terrain!
Ward’s Dealer Business – Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM
In a recent article from Dealer Business magazine, an early demand for the new GMC Terrain cross/utility vehicle is outstripping supply by a wide margin, and Buick GMC General Manager Susan Docherty is looking to keep it that way by taking market share away from foreign rivals.
“We have orders for three times more vehicles than we can build,” Docherty tells the Chicago-based Midwest Automotive Media Assn. “We’ll probably get 10,000 units in this calendar year.”
The Terrain, sharing its architecture, powertrains and plant with the ‘10 Chevrolet Equinox but sporting exclusive sheet metal, is aimed at SUV owners “who don’t want pain at the pump,” she says. The Terrain is priced $6,000 below the old Envoy, and about $1,000 to $1,800 above an Equinox. Docherty expects the Terrain’s bolder, more truck-like styling to draw different buyers than the Equinox.
GMC owners tend to have higher incomes, and add about $2,000 more in equipment to a vehicle than Chevy owners do, she says. And while the Equinox is forecast to skew 65% toward female buyers, the Terrain is expected to appeal equally to both men and women, most in the 30-55 age range.
Meanwhile, Docherty says some payback is expected in overall demand due to the end of the “Cash for Clunkers” program that dramatically boosted industry sales in the U.S. the last couple of months. But GMC won’t dramatically pump up incentives to soften the blow.
“You won’t see us screaming deal, deal, deal as we move out of the Clunkers program and it becomes harder to sell,” she says. “Incentives will still play a role, but we’ve relied too heavily on selling the deal and selling $199 a month and not our quality and value and how we stack up against the competition.”
Stop in to Todd Wenzel Buick GMC to experience the 2010 GMC Terrain and to see our large selection in all trim levels and colors. Todd Wenzel Buick GMC has the most knowledgeable staff, competitive prices and amazing rates in the industry! Come see what makes us your number one Buick, GMC dealership in West Michigan.
Call us at (616)-949-7700 to request your test drive.
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OnStar to the Rescue!
View article below from a Detroit News article posted on Mlive.com. You gotta love OnStar!
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/10/high-speed_chase_ends_when_ons.html
High-speed chase ends when OnStar halts stolen SUV
By The Associated Press
October 19, 2009, 7:17PM
DETROIT – When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase.
The 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe roared away with officers in pursuit, but shortly after the suspect made a right turn, operators at General Motors Co.’s OnStar service sent a command that electronically disabled the gas pedal and the SUV gradually came to a halt.
The flustered thief got out and ran, but was quickly nabbed after he climbed several fences and fell into a backyard swimming pool, police said.
It was the first time since OnStar began offering the service in the 2009 model year that it was used to end a chase that could otherwise have had dire consequences.
“He wouldn’t have pulled over if OnStar hadn’t have shut the vehicle down,” said Visalia Police Sgt. Steve Phillips. “Generally pursuits end in a collision.”
The whole thing began when Jose Ruiz, 33, of nearby Lindsay, Calif., was sitting in his Tahoe in a lighted parking lot about 3 a.m. Sunday while his cousin was talking on a cell phone in the passenger seat. Out of the corner of his eye, Ruiz saw a man walking toward him.
“He already had a gun out,” Ruiz said Monday.
The man pointed a sawed-off shotgun at Ruiz and ordered both men to get out of the Tahoe and empty their pockets. Ruiz’s cousin at first refused, but Ruiz told him to obey, knowing that OnStar could find the stolen truck with a global positioning system.
“I was afraid he was going to shoot my cousin. My cousin was arguing with him,” Ruiz recalled.
The cousin relented and the man sped off in the truck. Ruiz then sprinted for a nearby pay telephone to call police, but ran into a sheriff’s deputy on her break who notified Visalia police.
Officers quickly contacted OnStar and got Ruiz’s permission to find the vehicle. Police spotted it a few miles away, but as officers made a U-turn to pursue it, the Tahoe sped off at a high speed, Phillips said.
The suspect made a turn, and police dispatchers told the pursuing officers that OnStar was about to disable the Tahoe. It then rolled to a halt, and the robber was quickly captured.
The 21-year-old suspect was jailed and faces preliminary charges of robbery, carjacking, possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.
