Jack Pohanka, Area Salesmen Get Honorable Media Mentions
The media recently featured three very favorable articles on the people who lead and staff the Washington area automobile business.
. Jack Pohanka of Pohanka Automotive Group was interviewed in The Dealer Speaks feature in the March 20 issue of Automotive News. A Washington area icon, Pohanka’s chain of 14 stores, which was founded in 1919, is the oldest dealership group in the Washington, DC, area that has remained under the same family ownership. Pohanka was the first US auto dealer to sell both foreign and domestic vehicles and the guy who invented the term megadealer. His distinguished resume also includes founder and chairman of the Capital Automotive REIT, founder of the National Institute of Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), former NADA chairman (1976), after he chaired WANADA (1968). It is an interview not to be missed.
. German Vidal of Ourisman Honda in Bethesda, MD was featured in a lengthy profile article, The Keys to La Buena Vida, in the Style section of The Washington Post, March 19. A master at his trade, Vidal is one of the top salesmen in the Washington area ã make that one of the best in the country. An excellent read for all aspiring sales professionals. If you missed it, go online to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/18/AR2006031801359.html.
. Wanda Cockrell, service manager at Jim Coleman Toyota in Bethesda, MD received a very favorable mention at the tail end of a March 14 article in The Washington Post, entitled Key Codes Leave Car Owners Locked Out. The article discussed the high cost and hassle of replacing high-tech, anti-theft ignition keys, including an example of one woman whose 2002 Toyota Highlander was flooded during Hurricane Katrina at her home near New Orleans. Once she moved to Washington, the woman took her Highlander to Jim Coleman Toyota where Cockrell took care of the $305 bill to cut and program two keys. And she threw in an oil and fluid change, said The Post.
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