The $2.5 billion, 7,400-employee Larry H. Miller Group of Companies started in 1979 with one Utah dealership. Today it encompasses 44 dealerships in seven states, as well as professional sports, auto racing and other entertainment venues, movie theat

As an early adopter of Internet technology, Casey Coffey, general manager and owner of Gwinnett Place Ford, in Duluth, GA, has led his Internet sales team in achieving some very impressive results: 65% of Gwinnett Place Ford’s sales are Internet sa

Forty-eight years ago, Ray Ciccolo, a young coin-laundry entrepreneur, stopped by a car dealership to buy a new car. He left with the car – and owning the dealership too. Since then he’s amassed 11 dealerships as Village Automotive Group, in the

Darin Partin, Internet sales director for Crest Auto Group, in Plano, Texas, doesn’t worry at all about beating the competition. Partin and his team are focused on beating their own record. Based on their sales numbers, that strategy is working to

Third-generation dealer Bill Underriner operates Underriner Motors in Billings, MT, selling Honda, Buick, Hyundai and Volvo, and, as NADA’s leader for the next 12-month tenure, is eager to lead.  “My focus is on three goals,” he tells Dealer m

Third-generation dealer Sean Gunn got his start by working every department and tackling most every task required to run a modern auto dealership. Now chairman of the board, he’s shepherding Gunn Automotive Group’s successful one-price strategy t

Solid teamwork, innovative responsiveness to customers, constant process monitoring and tuning, extensive research and development, and old-fashioned long hours of hard work have made McGeorge Toyota a winner in so many ways. The numbers tell the sto

When Chad Baker and his business partners at Marc Heitz Chevrolet in Norman, OK erected their 81,000 sq. ft. Chevrolet showroom in 2008, it was just in time for the recession that came roaring through the nation. Fortunately, the entertaining ideas t

Burnsville Toyota is the 2011 Top Winner of the Digital Dealer Website Excellence Awards – scoring higher than 229 other dealerships and dealership groups nationwide. Co-sponsored by Dealer Communications and Dataium, LLC, this new awards competiti