{"id":11830,"date":"2014-02-08T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2014-02-08T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T15:17:24","slug":"consumer-advisory-gmr-4x4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11830","title":{"rendered":"Consumer advisory: GMR 4&#215;4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two sets of fantasy vehicles. Set number one is the ones I would buy if I ever won the lottery: something like a nice high-end BMW, or an Acura NSX, or a Mercedes sedan, or maybe a nice Audi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Set number two is the more affordable set, and what I like to call &#8220;hacking around&#8221; vehicles. Sometimes I think it&#8217;d be nice to have something like a used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissarmyvehicles.com\/\">Pinzgauer or Unimog<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also thought about a real Land Rover; not one of those soccer mom vehicles, but an older model Defender, possibly a military surplus one. All of these are surprisingly affordable.<\/p>\n<p>But if I ever do go looking for that surplus Land Rover, you know who I <strong>won&#8217;t<\/strong> be doing business with? <a href=\"http:\/\/gmr4x4.com\/\">GMR 4&#215;4, aka GMR Imports LLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Linoge has the whole story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallsofthecity.net\/2014\/02\/gmr-4x4-and-armada-services.html\">how he got screwed over by GMR over at his site<\/a>. In short, his &#8220;jump in and drive away&#8221; Land Rover has cost him over $11,000 above the purchase price so far, requiring a transmission replacement (it literally could not be driven off the transport) and an engine replacement within the first 100 miles of driving. Yes, yes, buyer beware when you&#8217;re buying a used vehicle, but based on Linoge&#8217;s summary, GMR substantially misrepresented the condition of the vehicle on their website.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to go over to Walls of the City, read Linoge&#8217;s story, and then carefully consider whether you wish to do business with GMR 4&#215;4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two sets of fantasy vehicles. Set number one is the ones I would buy if I ever won the lottery: something like a nice high-end BMW, or an Acura NSX, or a Mercedes sedan, or maybe a nice Audi&#8230; Set number two is the more affordable set, and what I like to call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-consumer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11833,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions\/11833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}