Who says times are bad? Despite discouraging news coming from Detroit and a market that is as competitive as ever, according to many dealers, revenues for the nation's top automotive dealer groups reached record levels in 2004, continuing the...
Certified pre-owned vehicle sales winners for the two Ward's Megadealer 100 firms headquartered in Charlotte, NC: Hendrick Automotive and Sonic Automotive. Hendrick's sales director for new and used vehicles, Chris Little, says the group achieves...
LOS ANGELES One of the most respected and successful dealers in the huge Los Angeles market is Bert Boeckmann, 74, owner of the top-selling Galpin Ford and several other stores in the San Fernando Valley city of North Hills. Ward's interviewed him...
GRAND BLANC, MI Michigan's largest privately owned dealership group is adding three new stores in the state, including a radically new Buick-Pontiac-GMC outlet with a dramatic glass “canopy,” a first of its kind for a General Motors...
BOWLING GREEN, KY – Since his college days in the late 1960s, Cornelius Martin knew he wanted to be a car dealer. Now he is a megadealer, the head of one of the top dealership groups in the nation...
The Ward’s Mega Dealer 100 is filled with colorful owners and principals perhaps none more colorful than Tex Earnhardt, founder (1951) of the privately owned and family run Earnhardt Auto Group in metro Phoenix, AZ. Now an active 73 years...
The top eight megadealers in the U.S. have clustered their stores in six Sunbelt states, following the nation's population growth and avoiding the North's seasonal weather problems. A Ward's Dealer Business survey shows that 495...
Mega-dealer Lithia Motors Inc. acquires its third Montana dealership in a year, Power Chevrolet, with annual sales of about $40 million in the state capital of Helena, pop. 28,000. The store's new name will be Lithia Chevrolet of Helena. The...