My (free) 2010 Camaro (Dr. Pepper Camaro winner!)

[Lucky SOB]

Originally Posted by mifbody

My mom would absolutely love to sell her Grand Prix to get a Camaro but it's just not feasible with the way GM is right now. :(

That would be quite the driveway of fbodies... FOUR!

[IROCanSS]

Originally Posted by Chevyrocker

Congrats. What a great day that would be...


These guys are right about the taxes though. Dr. Pepper might pay for the actual tax on the vehicle, but you will be taxed on it come the end of the year. Either way, it is completely worth it.

No income taxes are collected at time of winning or recieving the car. the taxes are due at income tax (april) time. Now he can probably do a payment plan or whatever or just "sell" the car to himself. Any bank will loan 8 grand on a new camaro I am sure.

Sales tax is different. he didn't buy the car, thus no sales tax. Dr. Pepper bought the car so they pay the sales tax. I am not sure they can cover the title and license though because that is state by state.

Originally Posted by Dan3

Pay attention to this guy. "Free" prizes have really screwed a lot of people who don't understand how good ol' Uncle Sam works. You really will get slapped with some hefty taxes, DrP cannot cover them.

HOWEVER, you said something about college. If you are young enough, and unemployed or employed at minimum wage, your tax bracket may be low enough to get the car for well under $8k. I'm not tax accountant though, I would call someone who knows and ask some questions.

I'll pay $8k for the car if you can't j/k Gratz bro

True, I just used the 30% as the math was easy. More like what ssump29 said. Seems closer I would imagine to 10-20% or less for a college kid. Regardless he is on the hook for something.

Originally Posted by mifbody

The only tax that the TT&L covers is the sales tax - the winner will still be responsible for the 1099.

yup!

[The Dark Knight]

Wow...I always wondered if people actually won things like this...congrats man!

[vm1971]

CONGRATS!
holy moly

ive entered in OVER 25 codes so far. nuthin.

BUT CONGRATS to you. wow!

[Vash]

Grats.. this contest is bad I am putting on sugar weight.

[Hemlawk]

Contrats!!!!

Ive entered about 20 codes so far.

K_master. How many times did you enter a code?

[vm1971]

Originally Posted by Vash

Grats.. this contest is bad I am putting on sugar weight.

be like me... its all Diet Dr. Pepper - actually tastes good!
and ive counted on my code history... 30 friggin DUD caps! GRRR!!!!!!!!!

[TFord]

congrats guys!

[Revo1]

Originally Posted by SirBrad

That's awesome. Congrats. I always think to myself, "who actually wins these contests?".

Well is seems like at least two people have!

Just wish one of those could have been meeeee! Given model is the 2LT right?

[outlawz]

congrats to the OP.....

related story from 4th of July...

I'm going to watch fireworks with the wife and kids in Dixon, CA on saturday and sitting in the parking lot was a BRAND SPANKING NEW 1LT Yellow Camaro automatic with the RS package.... Looked amazing. I'm not super into yellow but this thing was really nice. Would have been better in a 2SS version but it was nice nonetheless....

So me and the wife are drooling over it thinking about how awesome it'll be when our CGM 2SS finally gets here... The guy who owns it comes over and starts putting his chairs in the trunk and my wife asks him "did you pay MSRP???" and the guys replies "No, Free".... My wife is like "what?" and he proceeds to tell her he won it in a contest from GM.....

no friggin way.... yes way..... he won the damn thing free and clear. says he paid like 2200 in TTL and walked.... crazy.....

[Vash]

Originally Posted by vm1971

be like me... its all Diet Dr. Pepper - actually tastes good!
and ive counted on my code history... 30 friggin DUD caps! GRRR!!!!!!!!!

I don't eat anything that says diet too many wierd chemicals and ingredients.

But I do know it's probably one of the better tasting diet soda's.

[vm1971]

Originally Posted by outlawz

congrats to the OP.....

related story from 4th of July...

I'm going to watch fireworks with the wife and kids in Dixon, CA on saturday and sitting in the parking lot was a BRAND SPANKING NEW 1LT Yellow Camaro automatic with the RS package.... Looked amazing. I'm not super into yellow but this thing was really nice. Would have been better in a 2SS version but it was nice nonetheless....

So me and the wife are drooling over it thinking about how awesome it'll be when our CGM 2SS finally gets here... The guy who owns it comes over and starts putting his chairs in the trunk and my wife asks him "did you pay MSRP???" and the guys replies "No, Free".... My wife is like "what?" and he proceeds to tell her he won it in a contest from GM.....

no friggin way.... yes way..... he won the damn thing free and clear. says he paid like 2200 in TTL and walked.... crazy.....

HOLY F.
thats gotta be me soon, its just GOTTA be. i cant wait any longer!!!!!!!!

[1320junkie]

I swear all Texans I know live and die by Dr Pepper...kind of like us Georgians and Coke

[geminidreams]

Originally Posted by rolnslo

Dr. Pepper will pay TT&L. They will not be paying the income taxes for you. Depending on your tax bracket, this 'free' Camaro is going to cost you thousands of dollars in income taxes. You'll get a 1099 for the full retail value of prize, including the TT&L they are going to pay for you too.

By the way, the other winner on here for this contest is Kristinw0821.

That is sad that you will have to sell it Wow..