A car company with a heart!

While at Extreme Fitness in Thornhill, Ontario, on Thursday, 22 October 2009, Todd Jamison returned to his parked car. He was horrified at the condition he found his Hyundai Elantra (only recently Todd had paid the Elantra off).

Thinking his car had been vandalized with something like a baseball bat, for whatever reason he knew not… Todd went up to where he knew surveillance cameras were monitoring the parking lot. He asked if he could review the footage in order to find the culprit.

Here’s the footage in which Todd discovered who totally destroyed his 2004 Elantra!


Surveillance video footage caught the worse parking job!

A BMW SUV drives up over Todd’s blue Elantra and the white car beside Todd’s… then just drives away. Not to worry folks, the vehicle was spotted later, and the driver has now been charged.

2009 Hyundai Elantra

2009 Hyundai Elantra

Having taken a few days off work to find a new vehicle, on 31 October, Todd received a call from his office on pretense of a client needing to see him. Once Todd was finished with the one client, Todd was asked to return to the parking lot and go over what had happened to his car. That’s where Hyundai Canada representative Barb Pitblado present Todd with his brand new Hyundai Elantra! Apparently, Barb stated “We wanted to help the guy. This was our random act of kindness.”

5 stars for Hyundai!!!!

Source: AutoNorth

209 Responses to A car company with a heart!
  1. Linda Riecke Reply

    My spouse and i wound up at this post doing internet search for a new vehicle and were amazed with this story.

    • Trish Reply

      Glad you enjoyed it Linda!

  2. Deandre Sheer Reply

    I would like to say hi there as well as compliment you, on your web site. Well done!

  3. Harold Bahun Reply

    Appreciate your attention to details!

  4. Herlinda Sep Reply

    Just stop in to compliment you, on your outstanding writing style.

  5. Azalee Killen Reply

    Thanks for sharing this.

  6. Erika Roney Reply

    Many here have said it better than I could… WOW!

  7. Clarinda Sinnett Reply

    Good stuff!

  8. Synthia Ellifritt Reply

    two big thumbs way up for this guy!

  9. Bethel Sporleder Reply

    Appreciate your post here. What a story!

  10. Clarisa Poser Reply

    We enjoyed reading this post!

  11. Mercy Santillan Reply

    Sent this to my stumbleupon account, and emailed this post to a several buddies.

  12. Neida Enz Molinary Reply

    Fantastic post, appreciate your publishing this!

  13. Tyrone Caudillo Reply

    I have discovered great posts on this web site. Thanks!

  14. Shannan Rigney Reply

    I’m actually using the same theme as your web site. Have you ever come upon any browser compatible troubles ?

    • Trish Reply

      None that I'm aware of Shannan.

  15. Antonette Ripp Reply

    Two thumbs upward!

  16. Emogene Beausoleil Reply

    My spouse and i liked this one!

    • Trish Reply

      I'm glad you both enjoyed this Emogene!

  17. Cory Mazzeo Reply

    Anybody who see this are obviously going to love Hyundai dealerships. thanks partner.

  18. Elizebeth Stoutamire Reply

    Numerous thanks for this post!

    • Trish Reply

      You are very welcome Elizebeth!

  19. Josephina Tapaoan Reply

    I am surfing on the internet a lot more than Three hours lately, yet I by no means ever identified any sort of exciting report like yours.

  20. Milan Wittenmyer Reply

    i really enjoyed this post, thanks.

  21. Aaron Lindbo Reply

    Absolutely two thumbs up. Ideal car company !

  22. Genevie Gorzynski Reply

    I’d buy Hyundai after watching this!

    • Trish Reply

      That's great to hear Genevie. Think you'll be happy you did too!

  23. Mona Somoza Reply

    This is certainly a website!

    • Trish Reply

      It certainly is Mona!

    • Moureen Reply

      Two thumbs up for Hyundai!

  24. Danilo Horsey Reply

    Think I know which car company I’m buying from next…

  25. Mollie Nordyke Reply

    Valuable post, valuable lesson… GREAT dealership!

  26. Leda Hauptman Reply

    Awesome!

  27. Mickey Behar Reply

    Wow, I’d say they had a BIG heart!

  28. Cody Kakimoto Reply

    What a great dealership!

    • Trish Reply

      Got that right Cody! Ontario Hyundai in Whitby are every bit as awesome a dealership.

  29. Corrie Besanson Reply

    Bloggers love to know when what they write has elicited an emotional, and this video surely does the trick. Wow!

    • Trish Reply

      Thanks Corrie! Glad you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed posting it.

  30. Shelby Chander Reply

    Naturally I’ll provide you with a hyperlink in your internet blog. Thanks for sharing.

    • Trish Reply

      You're welcome Shelby!

  31. Irwin Mcgrotha Reply

    Wow, nice car company!

    • Trish Reply

      Got that right Irwin!

  32. Laverne Sobotta Reply

    Yeeeeah for Hyundai… way to go!

  33. Jordon Schouviller Reply

    I enjoyed your post… it sure pays to buy Hyundai!

  34. Halley Mandril Reply

    Two thumbs up!

  35. Moriah Westall Reply

    Thanks for sharing this!

    • Trish Reply

      You're very welcomed Moriah!

      • Alexandr Reply

        I am so impressed by the products Hyundai sells too!

  36. Max Agosti Reply

    I just came across your post, and I want to say i truly enjoyed this. Thanks!

    • Trish Reply

      You're very welcomed Max!

  37. Elsa Tigue Reply

    Listening this video reminds me of what happened to my brother! I will forward this post to him. Thanks!

    • Trish Reply

      Glad it helped in a good way Elsa!

  38. Garland Barnaba Reply

    After reading so many great posts here I will be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write more again very soon!

    • Trish Reply

      Thank you Garland! Comments like yours help me know whether my content is worthy of being posted or not.

  39. Frankie Montgomery Reply

    Great story. Wish more dealerships were this kind!

    • Trish Reply

      Me too Frankie… me too!

    • Marcelo Darrel Reply

      Nice car company. Thank you.

    • Mike Winx Reply

      A car company I wouldn’t mind dealing with. What a refreshing change from the big 3!

  40. Bradford Reply

    thnkx for this post. Well stated!

    • Trish Reply

      You're welcome Bradford!

    • Meg Turner Reply

      I get pleasure from a post like this. Thanks for permitting me to remark!

    • Tamla Reply

      Wow, is all I can say!

  41. Alexis Mana Reply

    Awesome post!

  42. Catarina Bowle Reply

    I recently came to your blog and started reading your articles. This time I decided I would leave my first comment. Great POST!

    • Trish Reply

      Thanks Catarina. Hope you will continue to enjoy my posts.

  43. Monserrate Zimmel Reply

    Any wonder Hyundai is doing so well in our pathetic economic times? Me thinks not!

    • Trish Reply

      Amen to that Monserrate!

  44. Jonathan Loparco Reply

    Well said Fred!

  45. Fred Difelice Reply

    Wouldn’t it be nice if ALL car companies treated their customers so well?!

  46. Darron Pacitti Reply

    Became aware of your blog thru Google, and found it full of a good variety of informative articles. I’m impressed!

    • Trish Reply

      Thanks Darron,

      Feedback like yours is VERY important to the continuance of my treasure trove of tantalizing topics ;-)

  47. Jeremy Kurelko Reply

    Nice story!

  48. Pamelia Sohre Reply

    I appreciate your nice info, really helped me. I will revisit your site.

  49. Gail Nemet Reply

    Well stated! Guess who I’ll be buying from next?!

    • Trish Reply

      Thanks Gail… ummm… Hyundai maybe ;-) ?

  50. Danny Brown Reply

    Wow. No other words but wow. Now THAT is a company that gets it.

    Cheers for sharing this, Trish. :)

    • Trish Reply

      Thanks Dan!

      Many Hyundai dealerships are trying to re-write the book on how automobile dealerships operate, and it sure isn't before it's time!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Please enter your name, email and a comment.

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

*