Friday, December 25, 2009

GM to offer consumer test drives at NAIAS, other auto shows?



General Motors feels it has a lineup stuffed with vastly reinforced products and it wants to intend as many customers behindhand the rotate of a newborn Chevy, Cadillac, GMC or Buick to establish its point. Anyone crapper nous over to the local concern for a effort drive, but the General is reportedly hunting for even more structure to intend you to appraise a newborn GM product, including effort drives right at your local machine show.

The city News reports that GM is employed with officials from COBO and the city of city to ordered up a dynamical line so that consumers crapper effort the automaker's products on-site. Vehicles probable be featured include newborn products much as the 2010 Buick LaCrosse, Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX. The effort drive area at COBO is reportedly part of GM's totally revamped 85,000 sq ft exhibit space, which includes more interactive displays and plenty of areas to exhibit soured newborn profession like direct shot and the Voltec system. Obviously, the General needed to attain whatever field changes, since it won't requirement displays for Pontiac, Saab and Saturn in 2010.

Customer effort drives were piloted at the New England Auto Show early this year, where Cadillac reportedly locate over 1,400 grouping behindhand the wheel. GM is also hunting to ordered up drives at individual another field shows, including Chicago in February, but the biggest near will take locate in field metropolitan areas on the east and westerly coasts, where GM creation consideration is weakest.

Auto exhibit effort drives attain amend sense, considering that jillions of showgoers attend these events every year. People who pay $12 to countenance at cars in a crammed and crowded convention center are probable the literal aforementioned grouping to intend excited most newborn products. Why not provide them seat time and let the word-of-mouth flow?

[Source: The city News]

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