Just like recent announcements from Mercedes and BMW, Audi will now offer an introductory 3-month trial offer of the "Sirius Everything" satellite radio package with the purchase of all Sirius-equipped certified pre-owned Audi vehicles sold in the U.S.
This news comes on the tail of a recent announcement from Audi stating that it has outperformed against its competitors in the U.S. luxury import sector.
Audi will continue to offer Sirius as standard equipment on key models sold in the U.S., including the A3, A4, A5, A6, A8 and R8 models as well as the Audi Q7 and Q5 models.
"The Audi experience has always been about more than just driving," said Mark Del Rosso, Chief Operating Officer, Audi of America in a statement. "And that's why we know our customers want Sirius' sports, news, talk and 100% commercial-free music in their certified pre-owned Audi vehicles."
These announcements with automakers are all perfectly timed leading up to Sirius XM's 2Q09 financial results this Thursday. No doubt they will be a topic of discussion.
"The Audi experience has always been about more than just driving," said Mark Del Rosso, Chief Operating Officer, Audi of America in a statement. "And that's why we know our customers want Sirius' sports, news, talk and 100% commercial-free music in their certified pre-owned Audi vehicles."
These announcements with automakers are all perfectly timed leading up to Sirius XM's 2Q09 financial results this Thursday. No doubt they will be a topic of discussion.
more fake subs to count as that quarterly is coming out .
What is NOT fake is that these OEM's obviously see value in offering SatRad in their cars....
SatRad is here for the long term and will (IMO) end up replacing the terrestrial radio infrastructure
What's next Audi offering customers tires with slow leaks on Certified Pre-Owned vehicles? Although paying for radio and buying a ego stroking, foreign Audi go hand in hand for ass clowns desperate to make themselves feel better than they are.
FU Melvin, your scheme of counting new and now used vehicles sitting on the lot as active subscribers is FRAUD, typical of siriusxm's anything goes since the "merge" MONOPOLY.
satradio is DEAD.
lets see that quarterly report this thursday and see how many more subs are lost before we say these have real value .I know of three people that had it in their cars for a free trial and they never used it ( they just hooked their Mp3 players up to the stereo )and when it came time to pay for it they dropped it . They lost 404,000 last quarter and that was after xmas season when people would most likely give sirius as a gift and still lost that many subs . The radios already in cars only count as sub #'s to count even when the car is sitting on a lot unbought that audi already paid for at a big discount and more than likely did not make sirius any money . Can't wait for the 2nd Qrter report . I,m gonna throw a party if they have lost more subs !
I won't agree with everything you posted but I subscribed because it WAS superior to 95% of terra radio (prior merger) certainly NOT because of any ego motivated action.
That being said, I do agree that 'ol Mel will stretch the truth to the point of lying,BS every chance he gets, and make just about every convoluted claim he can to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
What I don't understand is, how does he get away with it???
Greenstein's another one.
How in the world do they do it?????
Recondo72 said...
Mel will stretch the truth to the point of lying,BS every chance he gets, and make just about every convoluted claim he can to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
What I don't understand is, how does he get away with it???
Greenstein's another one.
How in the world do they do it?????
Because they aren't..
It's just that a very few of U one this site think they are...
Who cares anyway if Mel lies (or whatever) about subs....in the end it's REVENUE - EXPENSE = PROFIT
Perhaps you & "js643dp" are right.
Things like honesty,integrity,openess & transparency are SO outmoded anyway. There's no room for such trivial attitudes in the 21st century.
Used to be men of Mel's age said what they ment and ment what they said. They stood by their word and that ment something.
Truthfully tell me you see that in Mel & Greenstein.
With other companies it's might be "REVENUE - EXPENSE = PROFIT" with siriusfm it's lack of REVENUE - major EXPENSES = DEBT = siriusxm is DONE.