Maybe it's the Luck of the Irish! Terry Box of the Dallas Morning News wrote an awesome article on Bob Stallings Hyundai entitled Dallas Insurer Zooms Into Car Sales.
"But Bob Stallings, the workaholic executive chairman of Dallas-based Gainsco Inc., intends to stand tall in both — no matter how big the stretch.
“If I can be known to have the same orientation as a guy like Carl Sewell, yes, I’d like very much to be thought of as a car dealer,” said Stallings, 64, who owns a successful IMSA Sports Car racing team.
In November, Stallings’ company — whose primary business is car insurance — bought a Hyundai dealership off LBJ Freeway in southern Dallas and renamed it Bob Stallings Hyundai.
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| David Woo/Staff Photographer Dallas Morning News |
It’s a fairly unusual investment for an insurance-based holding company, but Stallings wants more.
“If I could open or buy two dealerships a year for the next five years without blowing the company up, that would be a good start,” he said.
The trouble is finding them."
As always, we at our Dallas Hyundai Store are completely focused on customer satisfaction. Bob made sure to mention the following in his interview with the newspaper:
He says his new Hyundai store already has customer satisfaction numbers “way above the national average.”
“Look, I want to be a significant dealer,” Stallings said. “I love cars. And I love building things.”
