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General Motors wants your assurance back. Battered by its attack into bankruptcy, the aggregation knows the car affairs accessible isn’t altogether assured in GM today. So the automaker is alms a new advance to car shoppers: the auto industry’s first-ever 60-day money-back guarantee.

The New York Times reports, “In an absolute accomplishment to restore aplomb in its products, General Motors will action a 60-day, money-back agreement on all its cars alpha on Monday.”

The Times is not carefully actual if it says the affairs applies to all GM vehicles. Autoblog notes, “The new action will awning new Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC models.” Cars congenital by Pontiac, Hummer, Saab and Saturn – all brands GM seeks to advertise or shut down this year – are not covered.

The Times reports, “The ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ affairs is anticipation to be the aboriginal time that a aloft automaker has offered a abounding acquittance on a car afterwards it has been sold.”

The action amounts to an continued test-drive offer. GM Vice President Bob Lutz told USA Today that the aggregation is acquainted that some barter may acquire to acknowledgment their GM car and buy a adversary instead afterwards the continued evaluation. “If you do the allegory and a Toyota Camry meets your needs bigger than a Chevrolet Malibu, hey, advice yourself,” Lutz said. Still, the automaker doesn’t apprehend abounding takers — if GM’s British division, Vauxhall, fabricated a agnate action several years ago, “only 2% to 3% of buyers brought cars aback for refunds,” a bulk that is “about what he expects for the U.S. program.”

Kicking Tires adds, “The affairs will run through November and does acquire a bulk of conditions, as you’d expect.” It alone applies to 2009 and 2010 archetypal year vehicles. There are still some 2008 models abiding on banker lots, but they will not be covered. The car aswell “must be alternate amid 31 and 60 canicule from purchase,” with beneath than 4,000 afar on its odometer. The client accept to be accepted on payments, and “If the acquirement accommodation included an added bulk to pay off the accommodation on a trade-in aloft what the trade-in was worth, that allocation will not be refunded.”

GM will advertise the affairs to the accessible with an ad assault timed to hit the Sunday morning allocution shows and Sunday football amateur this weekend. A website created to explain the agreement charcoal bare as of this writing, but should arise online this weekend with added details.

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