World's Largest BMW Dealership Opens - Florida

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COCONUT CREEK, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2004--In a move destined to cause change throughout the industry, Vista BMW has built an innovative "dealership of the future" in Coconut Creek, Florida, easily accessible to Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Palm Beach markets. Situated on 17 acres, the complex confers upon Vista BMW the title of World's Largest BMW Dealership.


The 137,000 square-foot facility features BMW and Mini Cooper showrooms, BMW Certified Pre-Owned Cars and an industry-leading, high-tech, 52-bay service center. There is also a Vista Boutique and Vista Drive-In cafe.


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Check out BMW North Scottsdale, it is saying that it is the Worlds Largest BMW Center (it does have 58 bays, although I'm not sure how many acres it is on).
 
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Wow...what they need to come up with is a dealership with a test track on the premesis. That would be the SSSSHEEEEEIT. Think about it, a test track to test the performance in the automobile you are interested in buying.
 
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The Dealer ship in North Scottsdale has a track in back. When the Dinan performance center had its grand opening a few weeks ago, they had all the BMW owners parallel park thier various BMW's all around it as they showed up. My E30 was between an E46 and an E39.
In the middle of the track, they have the Rover off road test area with hills made of rocks, lumber, ect. I've seen more Land Rovers on this track than BMW's on the mini road coarse-I'm not sure what it takes to get on the road coarse.
 
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It sure as hell isn't where I bought my car. They have like 8 bays and not even enough room for customer parking. Sales customers have to park on the street. Service customers clog up the tiny driveway they have.
 
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theBMWenthusiast said:
what they have overpassed my BMW alma mater Irvine BMW!!!! must confirm this with the dealer (oh and ya Irvine BMW will have 80ish service stalls in january when new update is complete)
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Haha, I bought my car at Shelly. Sister dealership. They're supposed to be done soon. We'll see how much better they made it. They sure bragged enough. Hope they got new techs tho cuz the old ones sucked.
 
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Haha, I bought my car at Shelly. Sister dealership. They're supposed to be done soon. We'll see how much better they made it. They sure bragged enough. Hope they got new techs tho cuz the old ones sucked.
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at Shelly or at Irvine...cuz Irvine is awesome, they ahve really good service guys and can do the work really quickly with friendly service advisors and the service quality is awesoem .At Irvine the expansion of the parking area for more cars was completed a while ago, but now they are expanding the main building, from the looks doubling the building at least, i know for sure that the service dept. bays and such has been doubled and all equipment has been installed. They are gonna hire a huge number of new technicians and it should really be nice there once all the changes are complete, not that it isn't nice now [:D].
 
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I meant at Shelly. If they still have the same techs as they did when I bought my car, I wouldn't trust them with anything beyond an oil change. Better than McKenna, but not that competent IMO.
 
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codex57 said:
I meant at Shelly. If they still have the same techs as they did when I bought my car, I wouldn't trust them with anything beyond an oil change. Better than McKenna, but not that competent IMO.
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i think Irvine is taking all the good ones, they keep hiring more and more every day [:D] but i've seen shelly and didn't like it, after being at Irvine for a while Shelly seems so small...
 
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Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if Irvine got all the good techs. Shelly's neighborhood demographics isn't even close to the wealth of Irvine's. I'm actually surprised that little automall has both a Mercedes AND a BMW dealership there. Guess they're saving money by not being in the Cerritos Auto Square.
 
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Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if Irvine got all the good techs. Shelly's neighborhood demographics isn't even close to the wealth of Irvine's. I'm actually surprised that little automall has both a Mercedes AND a BMW dealership there. Guess they're saving money by not being in the Cerritos Auto Square.
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ya here it is a high neigborhood demographic...i mean there is Irvine BMW (huge), Laguna Niguel Mercedes-Benz (too big for my likings, i mean you have to drive around to the different areas of the dealership), and Fletcher Jones Motor Cars, Newport Beach (i actually like the style of this place)...
 
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Not a big fan of Fletcher. Snobby salesmen when I went. Wouldn't give me the time of day. So what if I look young? [?|] Well, I'm not the typical clueless rich person that walks in there. Have you seen their sales numbers? Actually not that high considering the lot is monstrous. They make a killing in service.
 
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Not a big fan of Fletcher. Snobby salesmen when I went. Wouldn't give me the time of day. So what if I look young? [?|] Well, I'm not the typical clueless rich person that walks in there. Have you seen their sales numbers? Actually not that high considering the lot is monstrous. They make a killing in service.
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ya i agree with you on that one, and i got the top 500 dealership numbers so it is crazy how much they make on srevice, and when i said i like the style of the place, i meant the architecture and the building looks pretty nice, wish that were a BMW dealership, but i have to agree with you on the salesman being snobby all the time, i've been to benz dealerships twice lately, and i mean im not that old, im only 17, but im the guy who does all the car stuff for my family, but when i go there they treat me like a kid, i mean i am one, but still, im there to drop of a car and see some upgrades and parts and stuff, but when i go to a BMW dealership they are really cool, i mean everyone loves the cars and actually knows stuff and wants to talk to you, i think BMW has much nicer and intelligent sales people then most other places.
 
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