{"id":4085,"date":"2010-11-06T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2010-11-06T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T21:21:00","slug":"bsm-and-corsa-switchback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4085","title":{"rendered":"BSM And Corsa Switchback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about how <a title=\"BSM To Go Back To Using Corsas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BSM is dumping the Fiat 500 and returning to Vauxhall and Corsas<\/a> as their tuition vehicles. Of course, the forums have been rife with speculation by the know-it-all BSM-haters.<\/p>\n<p>These two snippets are from the <del>BSM Instructor Academy<\/del>. The earliest says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>NEW CAR DEAL WITH VAUXHALL <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are absolutely delighted to announce a huge new partnership with another iconic British motoring giant&#8230; We are rekindling our a previous 18-year relationship with Vauxhall as of next March, with our fleet of Fiat 500s and Grande Punto\u2019s being replaced with 5 door Vauxhall Corsas from the award winning ecoFLEX range.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet will be changed to Vauxhall by the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Dating right back to 2009 when we first acquired BSM. There was no car deal in place for BSM at that time. Vauxhall and Aviva had parted ways and we needed to get cars to our instructors \u2013 clearly a vulnerable position for a driving school to be in! We secured for our Instructors the Car of the Year, the Fiat 500. We worked with our instructors and learners through surveys and by monitoring communications closely to understand instructor\u2019s feelings about the Fiat 500.<\/p>\n<p>In May of this year, instructors sent us a clear message saying that 80% of them wanted to drive the Vauxhall Corsa \u2013 we can\u2019t ignore that overwhelming strength of opinion. The Corsa is the instructors car of choice, so we\u2019ve set about delivering to you the car you wanted. Here are some other essentials that you required and we\u2019ve made sure that we deliver\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full size spare tyres<\/li>\n<li>Steel Wheels instead of Alloys<\/li>\n<li>Larger dials on the dashboard so you can see the speed<\/li>\n<li>Rear headrests<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded power steering<\/li>\n<li>Better fuel consumption<\/li>\n<li>And all cars will have 5 doors<\/li>\n<li>5 star NCAP safety rating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are market leaders and it\u2019s important to us that our offer to Instructors is head and shoulders above our competition.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re back to British, and we can\u2019t pretend we\u2019re not delighted to be backing British industry once more. We must say a huge thank you to Fiat for an enormously successful 18 month relationship, which came along at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, this is fantastic news for us, for our learners, for our instructors and for our economy. The fact remains though that this would all mean nothing if we didn\u2019t have the colleagues at BSM to help us maintain our reputation as the UK\u2019s biggest and best driving school. And without that reputation we wouldn\u2019t have this deal. So it\u2019s down to our instructors and colleagues \u2013 to you! So thanks for the continued hard work, and here\u2019s to and exciting year ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then a more recent one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Switching to Vauxhall &#8211; Follow Up <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newspaper coverage of our move to Vauxhall has said that we \u2018ditched\u2019 Fiat because the cars were too small and been caused an issue with the DSA but this not true.<\/p>\n<p>We have in fact spoken to DSA this morning, and they assure us that the information in the newspaper didn\u2019t come from. Furthermore, they have offered us this quote if we want to go back to the papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fiat 500 meets DSA\u2019s Minimum Test Vehicle requirements. DSA has confirmed to us again today that the Fiat 500 remains suitable for driving lessons, check tests and driving tests, and that the agency was in no way involved in BSM\u2019s decision\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate our reasons for the switch, we have listened to instructor feedback about the Fiat 500, and we have managed to come to an excellent arrangement with Vauxhall that not only makes good commercial sense and gives our instructors what they want, but which also factors in a number of instructor specific improvements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full size spare tyres<\/li>\n<li>Steel Wheels instead of Alloys<\/li>\n<li>Larger dials on the dashboard so you can see the speed<\/li>\n<li>Rear headrests<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded power steering<\/li>\n<li>Better fuel consumption<\/li>\n<li>And all cars will have 5 doors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this won&#8217;t stop the &#8220;experts&#8221; giving out misleading information, but at least the facts are there for anyone who cared about such trivia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT 28\/6\/2012:<\/strong> Remember that <a title=\"AA Now Running BSM - Feb 2011\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BSM is now run by The AA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote recently about how BSM is dumping the Fiat 500 and returning to Vauxhall and Corsas as their tuition vehicles. Of course, the forums have been rife with speculation by the know-it-all BSM-haters. These two snippets are from the BSM Instructor Academy. The earliest says: NEW CAR DEAL WITH VAUXHALL We are absolutely delighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}