4 Longtime Dealers Changing Locations
In the search for more business and better addresses, four longtime Orange County dealers are shifting locations.
Fletcher Jones Motorcars will be moving early next year to a new 9-acre lot on heavily traveled Jamboree Road and Bayview Way, where it expects to be able to house and sell about 45% more cars than it does at its digs on Quail Street. Sterling BMW, another Newport Beach luxury car dealership, checked out of its facility on Jamboree near Newport Center and into the former Newport Imports facility at 3000 W. Coast Highway in the city this month.
Nicholas Chevrolet--a fixture in Santa Ana under the Eddie Hopper Chevrolet name for 36 of its 38 years--has moved into a new facility in the Garden Grove Auto Center. Owner Joe Voltarel, who became sole proprietor in 1994 and changed the name to Nicholas Chevrolet to honor his first grandson, says that he now has the nation’s longest Chevy dealership--the narrow lot, sandwiched between the Garden Grove Freeway and Trask Avenue, has 600 yards of frontage on Trask.
Huntington Beach Jeep-Eagle is vacating its 2.6-acre site on the Beach Boulevard auto strip in Huntington Beach to move into new quarters next door. Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, the Cypress-based importer and distributor of Mitsubishi cars, has bought the old Jeep Eagle site and plans to build a company-owned dealership there.
