Thai Car Manufacturers Off Flood Relief Campaigns

[MoonRiverOasis]

Over the past couple of weeks, several Thai car manufacturers have announced flood relief measures - here's a quick overview:

Chevrolet:

• 30% discount on parts for flood effected vehicles, valid until the end of October (presumably, this offer will be extended)

Ford:

• 30% discount on spare parts to flood effected customers until November 15th
• Donated 5 Rangers and Everests to assist with flood relief.
• Donated 1,000,000 Baht to the Red Cross to assist with flood relief.

Honda:

• Donated 100,000,000 Baht (100M Baht) cash to the Thai Red Cross for flood relief
• Donated 7,000,000 Baht worth of supplies (pumps, boat engines, tents, sleeping bags etc) to the flood releif effort.

Hyundai:

• Up to 35% discount on spare parts for flood effected vehicles, until the end of the year
• 50% discount on all labor for flood effected vehicles, until the end of the year
• Donated 1,594,894.25 Baht to the flood relief efforts

Mitsubishi:

• 20% discount on both labor and parts for flood effected vehicles, valid untl the end of the year

Nissan:

• 30% discount on spare parts for flood effected cars (expiry of offer not stated)
• Have donated in total 4,600,000 Baht to flood relief

Toyota:

• 30% discount on parts for flood effected vehicles
• Donated 2,000,000 Baht to Family News
• Donated 2,000,00 Baht to the Rajaprajanugroh Foundation
• Donated 2,000,000 Baht the to Thai Red Cross
• Donated 2,000,000 Baht to the gov't
• Donated 2,600,000 Baht worth of sand bags
• Donated 500,000 Baht of emergency provisions
• Donated engineering teams to help devise water drainage plans

Volvo:

• Free inspections for flood effected Volvo's
• 30-50% discount on spare parts for flood effected Volvo's, valid until the end of the year

Edited October 30, 2011 by MoonRiverOasis

[culicine]

Good on Honda for donating 100M. That's not chump change!

What's with the donation from Hyundai? Looks like the whipped around the hat at their service centers lol , Unusual figure...

[MoonRiverOasis]

Good on Honda for donating 100M. That's not chump change!

What's with the donation from Hyundai? Looks like the whipped around the hat at their service centers lol , Unusual figure...

Yeah, good trump by Honda

Hyundai did a fundraising drive - it wasn't all out of their corporate pocket, so to speak.

Edited October 30, 2011 by MoonRiverOasis

[MoonRiverOasis]

Mitsubishi Thailand have just donated 30M Yen (~12M Baht) to the flood relief efforts..

[MoonRiverOasis]

BMW:

• Donated 1,000,000 Baht to flood relief

Mitsubishi (updated):

• 30% discount on parts until January 31, 2012, in flood effected areas
• 20% discount on labor until January 31, 2012, in flood effected areas

[MoonRiverOasis]

Chevrolet:

• 30% discount on parts for flood effected vehicles - offer now extended until the end of Decemeber, 2011
• Donated 15 new Colorado pickups in conjunction with the Channel 7 TV station, to assist with flood relief efforts.

[BSJ]

I know it sounds calculated, and it is! Big corporations often only give a small amount in the first round until they see who the major donour is......then they discover someone in accounting left of a zero or 2. And the second cheque is much bigger. Honda is not playing fair!