Ok NYSPEED Extreme Team… who wants free gas? Not the post Louie’s Slim dogs gas, actual gasoline. Like us on Facebook and guess how many miles I will drive before I have to fill up the Volt. Closest to the miles wins a free tank of gas! I will post pictures of my trip odometer on a regular basis so you can see the progress. 25.2 miles so far.
^ From what I’ve seen in the other thread he’s charging it every chance he gets (including a charger at work) and his commute is less than the Volt’s battery only range.
So it could be a loooong time before he needs gas, though I do think I read something about the Volt having some “feature” that runs the gas engine once and a while just to make sure the gas isn’t going stale.
Crazy like a fox. Dave’s going to get a bunch of traffic to their FB page and exposure for the dealership, all for the cost of a single tank of gas. Use of social media at it’s finest.
You could probably continuously run this until the end of the lease, and still come out ahead of your regular advertising ventures (commercials, news ads, etc…)
I don’t know the exact amount but they pay us a fixed price to do the final PDI “Pre-delivery Inspection” when it arrives here and that amount includes the tank of gas. It usually works in the dealers favor on average because they pay based on average fuel price per gallon. If anyone buys a brand new car and doesn’t get a full tank then they need to say something when they are there picking it up. On pre-owned cars dealers do whatever they want… some fill them up (we do) and some don’t.
Might want to try pitching it to the local news. It’s just interesting enough with an environmental angle that it might make the cut for a fluff story on a slow news day. Gas and oil are on their way back up and the news talks about that all the time so their lead in story is already there.
I really need to start pushing harder to get the old school sales/owners here to let me do some social media for this place. Instead they still block FB/Twitter.
