Starting Wednesday, February 21st, the entirety of GM's certified used vehicle inventory will be promoted for sale on Cars.com, which is one of those online classified sites for selling cars. In all, there's about 60,000 GM certified used vehicles in the U.S. To be one, a GM vehicle has to be 6 model years old or newer, have less than 60,000 miles and go through a reconditioning process. Cadillac, HUMMER and Saab have their own programs for certified used vehicles, so this will only affect Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile, GMC and Pontiacs. Cars.com hosts about 2 million vehicles for sale at any one time from both private parties and dealers, so the site will be making separate pages for dealers who subscribe to Cars.com that set their inventory apart from the crowd, while those dealers that don't subscribe to the site will still get a GM Certified Logo on their listings. This isn't the first time Cars.com has buddied up with an OEM to sell certified vehicles, as it has similar partnerships with Toyota, Honda and Chrysler, among others.
[Source: Automotive News]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
retsel @ Jan 31st 2007 7:28PM
why do we buy cars from dealers again..
i would like to buy them straight from the manufacturer and get service from certified spots....
that would cut prices significantly and Domestics could get a little profit as well...
GM should experiment with selling 1 model direct to the consumer...(Saturn Astra) and see what happens...
dave @ Jan 31st 2007 9:25PM
yea, and start selling food, clothing, appliances, tv's, stereo's, boats, medicine, and everything else that is manufactured straight from the factories or farms. that makes real sense. then just who (since noone has a job) would then be the customers? that's how the communists did it, see how well it worked for them? what are they teaching in schools these days? certainly not econmics or plain common sense.
retsel @ Jan 31st 2007 10:16PM
dave....
i am talking about cars... just cars nothing else here... judge every product on its merit... don't extrapolate someones ideas to illogical extremes... i hope that not what they used to teach in schools... back in the day...
ever heard of web based micro publishers, farmers markets, or Dell or Apple... there are many products that we buy directly from manufacturers but i guess you majored in Close Mindedness...
there will be jobs left over for the enablers of business to consumer interaction... we dont live in a production based economy anymore... it is service oriented... direct marketing is feasible in some cases... and all i wanted to see is an experiment on one product from the the largest manufacturer of cars in the world... if it does not work.. can it... if it does... then run with it...
Dustin @ Jan 31st 2007 10:45PM
retsel, just to support your ideas a bit, I feel like the "car market" has killed itself over the years. I'd rather have teeth pulled than go to a car dealership.
mike @ Feb 1st 2007 12:58AM
the worst is when you go in there and you obviously know more than the salesperson does. i only go into a dealership if i know they have what i want- i do all my shopping and browsing online first (or i did when i was shopping for my truck).
PuffyC @ Feb 1st 2007 10:02AM
GM cannot legally sell cars directly to the public due to contractual agreements. Actually GM doesn't really have that much pull with their dealers, that's why most suck.
sze @ Feb 1st 2007 1:08PM
Actually, it's not a contractual agreement that keeps auto manufacturers from selling directly to the public, it's federal law. Back in the days of trust-busting (i.e. the first decade of the 20th Century), the government thought that allowing manufacturers to sell directly to the public would result in an oligopoly situation where the consumer gets nothing but screwed. Talk about unintended consequences...
Justin @ Feb 2nd 2007 9:54AM
It was opposite day in the Senate, #7, hehe...
Made to order cars would make alot more sense in my mind. Cars take so many resources, building tons no one wants seems stupid and wasteful. Chrysler should be fined for killing the environment with all the models just sitting around no one will buy...lol.