Years ago, we got a voucher for owning one of GM's infamous "saddle-tank" trucks. This one was a 1985 C10 Silverado. Of course, it was made "infamous", thanks to Dateline NBC, who put explosive model rockets under a fuel tank and set it to blow in a staged crash.
Now yeah, the trucks would blow up in an accident. If you hit them hard enough. But, it actually took a very serious accident. They didn't blow up like a Pinto would...and even a Pinto wasn't nearly as explosion-prone as Mother Jones would like you to believe.
Anyway, I remember the voucher was for $1000 off the purchase price, if we bought a new GM vehicle within a certain amount of time. Then it dropped to $500, and I think it then dropped to $250, and eventually expired. I can't remember if part of the stipulation was trading in the old truck or not. But, at the time, GM had nothing that was enticing enough to make us fork over a bunch of money for a new vehicle, just to get $1000 off.
I can't remember when the Dateline fiasco was exactly...I want to say 1993? Anyway, while the truck was exonerated, I thought it was actually pretty nice of GM to offer that voucher, even though we never used it. I wonder if very many people actually used those vouchers?