Jack Taylor Nominated for Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award

Jack Taylor Nominated for Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award

Jack Taylor, who has operated Alexandria Toyota for more than 35 years, has been nominated by both WANADA and VADA as their Time Magazine Quality Dealer of the Year candidate. Jack has been a tremendous contributor to the auto industry as well as to his community and we believe he exemplifies all that TMQDA is about, said Gerard Murphy, president of WANADA. Were especially pleased this year to be joined with VADA on the TMQDA nomination, he said.

Jack began his career in the auto business as a salesperson with Bill Page Toyota in 1972 and in 1973 bought Hunter Motors with his partner Frank Page and changed its named to Alexandria Toyota. He bought Frank out in 1984 and in 2000 relocated the dealership to a bigger facility to handle the growing business. In 2008, Alexandria Toyota generated nearly $120 million in total sales and employed 166 people.

Jack was the first chairman of the Lexus National Dealer Council and served for four years on the Toyota National Dealer Council. Most important to Jack, however, is the fact that he has won the Toyota President Award every year since its inception, some 23 years ago. The award is given for exceptional customer service.

In 1991 Jack was among a handful of concerned dealers who established an independent political action committee called Automotive Free International Trade Political Action Committee (AFIT PAC) to assure that dealers had a voice in electing free trade oriented members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He served as its chairman from 1997 to 1998 and remains active in its activities to this day.

Jack is active in a variety of community organizations including the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria, which provides college scholarships to academically worthy students regardless of their financial situation, and a leader for Capitol Hospice, for which he has raised more than $2 million over a 20 year period. Additionally, he each year donates $500 to each of 16 school PTAs in the Alexandria Public Schools. Among his more unusual contributions to the community, is the funding of Alexandrias first skateboard park. Built in 2004, the park is still a vibrant part of the City.

Time Magazine Quality Dealer of the Year Awardees are recognized at the annual NADA Convention, which next will be in Orlando, Fla. February 13-15, 2010.