All-new media website launched today Easily downloadable press releases and extensive picture
archive Special media ‘gricers’ quiz with great prizes
Although the Vauxhall press team are a pretty flexible bunch,
there are some times when even we struggle to deliver. Like when you
need a high-res picture of a 1994 Cavalier Diplomat and the tyre
size of a Monaro VXR. At three in the morning. On a Saturday. When
the deadline is at dawn…..
To help out, we have a new, super-efficient recruit in the press
office who works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without ever
demanding a pay rise or getting stuck in traffic on the A1(M) near
Baldock. You can get straight through by typing
media.vauxhall.co.uk
into your web browser (drop the usual www.) and having a look
around.
You will need to register for a username and password before you
can delve into the (massive) picture library, unless you have
already registered with any other GM media websites, in which case
you can use your existing info. Since registration approval may take
a few days, feel free to use our temporary password and username:
6431car (used as both username and password) until we have rubber
stamped your application. You won’t get away without registering for
long though, as 6431car will self-destruct at the end of November
and no longer allow you access.
Of course, we wouldn’t just launch a media website without making
a song and dance about it, and because we’re car anoraks just like
you, we’ve created a special ‘gricing’* quiz to celebrate the site’s
launch.
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So if you have the right kind of Cavalier attitude, Nova history
of Vauxhall inside out, don’t have Zafira losing and reckon you are
on Corsa to rack up Omega high score, simply register your details
on the site and grice* away.
Not only will a good score elevate your status among gricing
buddies, but it will also give you a chance of winning one of
several stunning prizes, ranging from a rather swanky Vauxhall
mountain bike to a year’s supply of VXR Haribo (if Tom and Craig
haven’t scoffed them already). We’re even going to give away all the
leftovers from the press office cupboard, and we suspect that – for
some of you – gems such as the VX220 Turbo briefcase, a few
T-shirts, launch press packs and a model of an Astra police car are
probably more desirable than the bike. The closing date is a month
from today – 14 December – and we’ll announce the winners via
Newspress.
If you are stuck, then by all means give us a call in
the press office for a clue. After all, once the website has gone
live and you don’t need to ring us to find out the load volume of a
Vectra estate or the diameter of an Agila exhaust pipe, we’ll
probably be at a loose end anyway…
*Grice. v. gricing; to grice the desire to learn as much as
possible about the automobile, and to bore others to tears with your
pointless knowledge of useless car facts. Gricing is seen as highly
addictive and can have a repellent effect on members of the opposite
sex. Underground networks of gricers are known to exist, and are
especially prevalent in the fields of automotive journalism and car
manufacturer PR departments. A recent outbreak of gricing within the
Vauxhall Press Office led to two members of staff being quarantined
for 48 hours until they wrote a silly quiz to aid their recovery. n.
Gricer One who grices. eg, Tom Barnard (01582 427606), Craig
Cheetham (01582 427612), Andrew Cullis (01582 427081).
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