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More "Free gas" deals from automakers?

Sphexi

Sphexi

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Dodge is now offering gas for 2 years when you buy new select vehicles from them...are they that desperate for sales, now that all of the employee pricing deals are over?
 
Dealers have been doing these for years on high MPG cars and it sounds better than it actually is. Lets say you get 12,000 miles worth of gas per year on a 30 MPG car at $2.50 a gallon that's just like taking 2K off the vehicle price. But 2 years of free gas sounds better than $2,000 off to most people I guess
 
Read the fine print. There's a dealership around here that offers that, but you have to have all of your maintenance done by them.

Edit: and what doze said
 
I read the fine print on Dodge's site, looks like for most of the models it's more like $3000-$5000 off the sticker price, but still they have offers like that all the time. It's just interesting how instead of saying "It's on sale" they say "Here's some free gas!" and try to play on people's fear of high gas prices.
 
Originally posted by: eelw
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: eelw
And some of them only limit it to like $500 per year.
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That's pretty misleading. That's pretty much false advertising.
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Not when it's in the fine print.
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Oh I disagree. If they want to give you $500 worth of free gas, they can advertise it as $500 worth of free gas. If they advertise a YEAR of free gas, then it should at least be based on a reasonable average number of miles per year (say, the same number of miles per year they assume for leases? 🙂). If it's a car that gets 40 mpg, that's reasonable. But across an entire line of cars that's not really reasonable. It's kind of silly to set a dollar limit that doesn't factor in gas mileage. Since they're calling it a year's worth of gas, they assume that people who drive SUVs drive half as much as people who drive subcompacts? 😕

I don't *think* you can say something in an advertisement that's blatantly false and then just put the truth in the fine print.
 
IIRC, it's somewhere in the $2000 range for the limit on gas on the ads I've seen. I've found them fairly entertaining, because more idiots who even jump at it don't realize that they're the ones paying for the gas anyway... it's built into the price. It seems that the gas limit was around the amount of gas needed for average mileage for 2 years.
 
TV ad for Dodge (I think) boasts 2 years of free gas. Read the fine print, the TV ads list the maximum amount at 23??.00 worth of gas, which might get you a thousand gallons or less depending on what happens to the price. For some that may work out to 2 years, in a little car and 15,000 miles a year. For others it won't last 6 months.

Local Dodge dealer also advertisers "free tires for life" but I have not idea how many restrictions and hoops exist, but I'm pretty sure they are there.
 
You know what was funny? A couple of years ago Taco Bell had a "free gas" promotion.

Haha, like they need to advertise that!!
 
all this is is instead of "cash back" which in theory you can use on ANYTHING, you get a set $ value of gas that can only be used on... you guessed it... GAS.
 
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