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 Hyundai of New Port Richey is thriving behind vice president and general manager David Frazier, left, and president Scott Fink. When it comes to new vehicle sales, Hyundai of New Port Richey trounces competition.
By Robert Trigaux, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Monday, July 19, 2010 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in greater Tampa Bay sells the most vehicles of all? Logic suggests a dealership in highly populated Hillsborough or Pinellas counties selling popular autos like Toyota or Honda might be No. 1. Wrong by more than a mile. The biggest seller of new vehicles is Hyundai of New Port Richey. Not only is the dealership tops in volume of new vehicles sold by anybody in the bay area, it is also the No. 1 Hyundai dealer in Florida and has been tops in the Southeast among Hyundai dealers for the past 59 months. It ranks third nationwide. From January through May of this year, the Hyundai dealership has sold nearly 1,500 new vehicles. Regionally, nobody else, not even the big Toyota dealerships in Tampa, even cracked 1,000, according to sales data from AutoCount. How did this happen? For some insights into this dealership's unusual success, we talked to Scott Fink, 49, president of 85-employee Hyundai of New Port Richey. Fink started working for Ford and has owned pieces of Clearwater Mitsubishi and Clearwater Toyota in years past. Last week, he was near Irvine, Calif., attending Hyundai's national dealer council, where he spoke by phone to the Times.
How did a Hyundai dealer in western Pasco blow by the big dealerships in sales?
When I first started, in the first month of business in June 2003, we sold 141 new cars, outselling everybody in the market. For the first six to eight months, we competed with the Fitzgerald dealership south of us in Countryside. We were like a prizefighter. We kept coming and our volume kept building. Everybody looked at us as the new guy in town, that we would get tired and fall down. It didn't happen. Click this link to read the whole article. Riding the Hyundai high in Fla.: From 141 local owners to 27,000
After opening Hyundai of New Port Richey near Tampa, Fla., in the summer of 2003, CEO Scott Fink has built his store into the highest-volume Hyundai dealership in Florida and the brand's No. 3 retailer in the country.
This year, sales at the store are up 27 percent to 2,997 vehicles through August.
Fink, 49, also owns a second Hyundai store and a Mazda dealership about 30 miles east in Wesley Chapel, Fla. Today, there are about 27,000 Hyundai owners in New Port Richey, compared with 141 when Fink opened his store in 2003.
Like many dealers, Fink hunkered down by cutting costs and finding ways to be more efficient during the downturn. After outperforming the market for the past two years, he says he's in the market for acquisitions -- but he doesn't want to get so big that he can't have a hands-on impact on his dealerships.
Fink, who also is chairman of the Hyundai National Dealer Council, spoke with Staff Reporter Ryan Beene.
Read more: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100920/RETAIL07/309209998/1400#ixzz10HQcqC8o
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