{"id":702,"date":"2009-01-12T22:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=702"},"modified":"2009-01-12T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:19:23","slug":"vauxhall-to-stop-bsm-car-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Vauxhall To Stop BSM Car Supply?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in an <a title=\"The Times - Vauxhall Stops BSM Car Supply\" href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/engineering\/article5488959.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> interesting story from today&#8217;s press<\/a> &#8211; well, those which have space after they&#8217;ve covered that bloody UFO fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realise  BSM  got all its cars free of charge from  Vauxhall . That&#8217;s one heck of a deal they have going there. Or it was. Looks like  General Motors  has decided it can&#8217;t afford this anymore and it wants  BSM  to pay.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Vauxhall is now in talks with the driving school to get it to pay for the fleet. The change in policy is expected to cost BSM several million pounds. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The credit crunch is hitting even the biggest players, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I know that people on school franchises pay a lot of money, so I wonder if this will affect how much BSM drivers pay? That&#8217;s one\u00a0of the advantages of being completely independent: you don&#8217;t pay anywhere near as much for your car&#8230; and things like this don&#8217;t affect you either. At least that&#8217;s one good thing for me with everything that&#8217;s going on at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong> EDIT 18 Feb 2009: I noticed someone searched for &#8216;has BSM recently been sold&#8217; and only came to this page! For goodness sake, look for more recent posts &#8211; for example, the one which gives itself away really:  <\/strong><a title=\"BSM Sold link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> BSM Sold To German Buyer <\/strong><\/a><strong> ! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BSM and FIAT Sign Car Deal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> *** Click Here! BSM and FIAT sign deal (23\/07\/2009)***<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>EDIT 13\/10\/2010:<\/strong> But  <a title=\"BSM Switches Back To Corsas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> BSM is switching back to Corsas<\/a>  after only one year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in an interesting story from today&#8217;s press &#8211; well, those which have space after they&#8217;ve covered that bloody UFO fiasco. I didn&#8217;t realise BSM got all its cars free of charge from Vauxhall . That&#8217;s one heck of a deal they have going there. Or it was. Looks like General Motors has decided it [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}