Electric vehicles aren't exactly flying out the door at Bill Marsh Auto Group. Co-owner Jamie Marsh says that electric and hybrid cars probably account for less than one percent of the company’s sales. Marsh says that the Bill Marsh Auto Group has been working to get more...
Serra Traverse City is one year into a multi-year renovation/construction of its auto dealerships on Garfield Road in Traverse City. Managing partner Jerry Zezulka said the projects began in August of 2016 and won’t be finished until sometime in 2020. “We started with a 36,000 square-foot service center on the South...
Auto sales have softened a bit from the record pace of the past two years, but local auto dealers remain upbeat about their business prospects. Some say sales are up from a year ago, while others are backing up their confidence by spending millions of dollars...
Protecting $30 billion of classic motorcycles, cars, and boats worldwide takes a lot of innovation. And space. Fortunately, Hagerty has both. Seven hundred employees of the classic vehicles insurer in Traverse City work either at the River's Edge campus on Cass Street or 130 S. Union, in...
Car and truck sales in the United States are starting to level off after climbing to a record 17.4 million new vehicles last year. But Traverse City dealers say they are continuing to enjoy strong results and don’t expect that to change anytime soon. “It’s probably...
Except for devoted Luddites who like to work on their older model muscle cars and pickups, the day of the shade tree mechanic has pretty much passed. Radical changes in car technology saw to that. The mechanical skill it takes to pull an engine block or...
Adam Hammer started his classic car restoration business – Hammer and Dolly Automotive Restorations – four years ago with “a bench and a tool box.” Not content to repair modern wheels, Hammer is dedicated to bringing life back to rusty wreckage like a ’55 Chevy Nomad...
With his work ethic and a solid background in engineering, former Northwestern Michigan College automotive tech student Andrew Medley could have written his own ticket when it came time to take a job. And it appears he did. He landed a job at automaker Tesla,...
There is a photo of Otto Belovich as a 10-year-old boy, standing in front of a used car lot in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His family had recently arrived in the country from Austria. The cars in the background were pure coincidence – at least so he...
Traverse City-based car broker, Wally Szunko, knows automobiles. He’s bought and sold thousands of them over his 22-year career. “I buy cars. Then I sell them – mostly to dealers but sometimes to friends,” Szunko said. That sounds simple enough. However, there is much more to...
