Purchase of new C6, when available.

[V8 ETE]

When the C6 becomes available (maybe next year into Europe). From my understanding there is no official dealership in the UK, I realise there used to be but these are now service centres. My question is this. When GM export their Vettes to Europe, assuming there is no dealership network in the UK, and say i purchased a new C6 from Germany. Would GM repair my new car in the UK under their warranty scheme, I ask this as we are in the eec, and therefore even if there is no Dealership network in the UK there would have to be service centres incase Vette owners from say France or Germany etc experieced problems while driving here or am I talking crap.
This could affect my future purchase of a new Vette.

[mark387mw]

At present Bauer-Millett are the only official GM dealer in the UK, suggest you speak to them

Mark

[LuS1fer]

American Dreams are already advertising them for £44995. You could ring and ask.

[C5RagTop]

Last night on Men and Motors (before the naughty bits I might add) there was a feature on the Detroit Motor Show including the C6. The presenter said the car would be available in the UK which is encouraging as regards warranties. However he did misquote the horsepower so he might also have got the UK availability bit wrong also.

My view is that warranty when you are spending that amount is vital. This was a deciding factor when I bought my 2001 last year and I was able to have some minor details fixed under warranty. There was a posting on this site earlier this year which indicated that GM had suspended all UK warranty work but I'm not sure if this has been resolved.

There really is only one place to ask and that is GM themselves.

[LuS1fer]

The guy not only quoted the bhp wrong (425 instead of 400), he also said the car had a 5.7 litre engine. That's what you get for letting Tomorrow's World presenters loose on a car show which barely showed the C6 or the Mustang. Conclusion: Don't believe a word.

[te51cle]

Warranty work can be done. The car goes on a trailer (if necessary) to Manchester, the work is done there and the car returned to you. GM pay for the trailer, or at least they're supposed to. Ask Nige for an update as he has been a customer recently !

[Dee Gee]

V8 ETE

I ran a Camaro in UK for 4 years which I imported from the US.

I transfered the US warranty by registering under the "International Tourist Program". The outfit, run by GM, lives in Ontario, Canada. All warranty rights transferred with me.