Replies to post #25564 on Sirius XM Holdings Inc (SIRI)

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Toyota Customers Receive 3-Month SiriusXM Trial Subscription on Toyota Certified Used Vehicles and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles 03/21 10:00 AM



NEW YORK, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (SIRI:$2.255,0$-0.005,0-0.22%) and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., today announced that customers across the United States will receive a 3-month trial subscription to satellite radio and available SiriusXM services when they purchase a Toyota Certified Used Vehicle or a Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicle equipped with a SiriusXM radio.

Customers purchasing Toyota Certified Used Vehicles and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles will have access to SiriusXM's commercial-free music, and premier sports, news, talk, entertainment plus traffic and weather information. In addition, customers will also get XM NavTraffic on select vehicles equipped with navigation.
"This offer gives customers buying Toyota Certified Used Vehicles and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles the world's best audio entertainment available on the road, and we look forward to working with Toyota and Scion dealers to provide even more of their customers the opportunity to listen to SiriusXM when buying any Certified Used Vehicle equipped with a satellite radio from Toyota," said Joe Verbrugge, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Automotive Remarketing Division, SiriusXM.
"Giving our customers SiriusXM for three months adds value to our Certified Used Vehicle Program," said Dave Depew, Corporate Fleet Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. "It gives our Certified Used Vehicle customers the opportunity to experience services from SiriusXM that enhance the experience of driving Toyota vehicles equipped with easy-to-use, state-of-the-art products such as satellite radio."
Toyota will continue to give customers purchasing new Toyota and Scion vehicles equipped with satellite radio a 3-month SiriusXM subscription, featuring more than 135 channels of commercial-free music, and premier sports, live news, talk and entertainment.

[Holycroc]

I have to kinda agree with Camerons latest article. It has been mentioned before that a new captain of this ship might be needed to set sail in the right direction. Whereas now there is no direction. All the great content is fabulous, but where's the R&D? Where is there evidence of staying current, keeping up with or staying ahead of everyone else? Where's all the cool new radios, how can the website player still look so drab and archaic?

All this fcf supposed to be a great thing, if ya do the right thing with it. Share buyback? Too many out there for it to matter. Dividend? Naaa. Buy other companies, perhaps, if the right one.

I'd say the only two true options that are best are investment into R&D, and paying debt down...

I'm not ready to bail ship here, but questioning things a lot more. Year from now may still be right where I'm at, but there's surely more doubt....

We're still here waiting for Malone to do whatever he's gonna do aren't we....