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Old 03-25-2010, 10:05 PM   #1
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GM's Test Drive Studio

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CHICAGO, March 24 (Reuters) - General Motors Co plans to lease retail space in four U.S. cities to offer shoppers the chance to test drive not only three Chevrolet vehicles but those of its largest rivals, a top marketing executive for the U.S. automaker said on Wednesday.

Under the plan, GM will offer consumers the chance to drive the hot-selling Equinox, the large Traverse crossover and the mid-sized Malibu sedan, Steve Tihanyi, GM's general director of marketing services, said during a conference in Chicago.

The automaker also will give prospective customers the opportunity to drive vehicles from rivals Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd.

"You come in and drive any of these competitive products at your leisure," he said. "You don't have to go running around town to go to a bunch of dealerships."

"It fits perfectly with 'May the best car win,'" Tihanyi said of a slogan used by GM in recent advertising. "We're going to see how it plays out."

GM is leasing space now in free-standing, high-traffic retail locations for the "Test Drive Studio" program, he said. It plans to test the program in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia and may expand from there, he said.

"We're trying to get it up and running by mid-spring," Tihanyi told Reuters, saying the timing was dependent on leasing and preparing the right retail locations.

The idea would be to draw online shoppers at Kelley Blue Book and Edmunds.com with pop-up ads directing them to the test-drive studios while also luring street traffic in the heavy shopping areas, he said in an interview. (Reporting by Ben Klayman; Editing by Richard Chang)
"May the best car win" is really being stressed lol.
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Old 03-25-2010, 10:08 PM   #2
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Old 03-25-2010, 10:12 PM   #3
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Wow...talk about "thinking outside the box".

That's a very unique idea! And shows incredible pride/confidence in their own products.
THAT'S the GM I want to see more of!
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Old 03-25-2010, 10:20 PM   #4
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that is interesting.
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Old 03-25-2010, 10:27 PM   #5
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Old 03-26-2010, 10:26 AM   #6
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It's unique. But they should get anything and everything that they can fit under the roof, unfortunately they will probably only stick some toyotas, hondas and fords in there.
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Old 03-26-2010, 10:30 AM   #7
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Interesting for sure...

Reminds me of an event Cadillac hosted at the Dallas Galleria a few months ago. They had CTS, CTS wagon and SRX there for people to drive/look at etc., but they also had BMW, Mercedes, etc. competing vehicles.

Also, anyone go to the test drive thing in Vegas they had set up 5? years ago? No competitive vehicles, but a cool way to test drive GM vehicles...
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I recall Ford doing this with their vehicles first.
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Wow...talk about "thinking outside the box".

That's a very unique idea! And shows incredible pride/confidence in their own products.
THAT'S the GM I want to see more of!
Indeed! Welcome to the NEW GM!
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