Yes, General Motors India is working on increasing its used-car business 15-fold and will push its second-hand cars through existing as well as new dealerships throughout India. 

GM already has 17 outlets of pre-owned cars including Chevrolet-OK and is also planning to increase that to 50 by the end of this year.

The company is expanding its business by working in its existing dealerships  that have been dealing only with new vehicles so far.

Karl Slym, President and Managing Director, General Motors India told PTI “We started the pre-owned cars outlets in March-April and already it has started to show results. Last month, we exchanged over 100 cars through these and we hope it will continue to grow in numbers”.

Slym said, “We currently have 203 dealers across the country and our plan is to increase that to 260 by the end of 2009. In line with this, we are also looking to take the pre-owned cars outlets to all our dealerships”.

He denied giving a specific time frame for undertaking this operation.

In June, the company declared extending its 3-year or one lakh km warranty scheme to used-car owners. A 110 point check list is conducted for the cars offered through these outlets by the trained engineers, besides a detailed history check by the company.

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Posted by Naresh Koshti on 27 August, 2009 11:21:32 AM IST #