With apologies to Monty Python, I had to blog this story just for the headline. Here’s the deal: North Texas Chevy dealers are inviting Metroplex-area license holders to test drive the new Chevy Traverse in exchange for a free one-hour session at any local Massage Envy clinic. “Who doesn’t need a moment away from the madness of everyday life?” Dallas/Fort Worth regional developer for Massage Envy clinics, Lance O’Pry, asked, more or less rhetorically. “A Chevy Traverse test drive and a free Massage Envy massage are relaxing breaks in your routine.” Unless that is your routine. Anyway, let’s assume Mr. O’Pry [not shown] is sick of trying to explain the difference between genuine therapeutic massage and equally genuine but not as socially acceptable during symphony intermission schmoozing massage. But if we jettison the distinction, one wonders if there’s a business case to be made here linking extortion and new car sales. Just sayin’.
Please send the Texas correspondent and publish a review ASAP. Now this is News!!!
I nominate TTAC commentator Happy Endings to go down there and do some hard-hitting investigative reporting.
Unfortunately for customers, neither the massage nor the Traverse comes with a happy ending.
Cicero,
It depends on the tip.
Tex
What is Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt doing on the cover of this story? Just wondering…
Swedish massage? That’s a long shot by several miles…
I know where I’ll be stopping on my way home. I wonder if the Vandergriff Chevy folks will be offended when I pull up in my Ford Flex?
I love test drives for free stuff. So far I’ve managed 2500 airline miles (06 Zephyr) and a $50 gift card from Target (07 Edge).
Number of free massages in my future – One!
Number of Traverses in my future – Zero!
Thai or Pinay?