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Article: VW SA must be cursing bad timing.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2007
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Last month its complaint against rival General Motors' newspaper adverts - which claimed that Corsa Lite's servicing parts were cheaper than those of its rivals - came before the Advertising Standards Authority Directorate.
The advert was based on the results of Car Magazine's parts basket survey, which found that the Corsa Lite maintenance parts were cheaper than those of the CitiGolf.
But VW argued that, according to its own research, the Corsa's parts were not cheaper and that pending the outcome of its dispute with the magazine, the adverts should be put on hold.
But the ASA found that General Motors "cannot logically be penalised for ...