Business View Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 3

84 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 30+ Years of Experience Turning Each Client’s Vision into a Reality. www.vlkarchitects.com Grubbs Acura, Grapevine, Texas trucks, the mindset on buying new cars got soft and our used car sales went up. The same thing happens when people stop buying new cars and hang on to their cars longer, then our service business goes up. With these separate little businesses inside our big business, we can swing one way or another depending on what’s going on in the economy.” He adds, “Right now, with the pandemic, the new car supply is very tight. We have come full circle to what got my great-grandfather into the used car trade in the first place, a lack of new cars. So, we like to think of ourselves as used car dealers with a new car franchise. Because the used car side of the business is very constant. The new car side is up and down, whether it’s based on the economy or supply or even the quality of the vehicles. For example, each manufacturer goes on a cycle where they have a hot product for a couple of years and then they don’t have a hot product. But since we’ve always been heavy in