Welcome Nissan Drivers on the North Shore

While we are still in the midst of transitioning into a Nissan dealership, our brand new North Shore Nissan location is open and ready for business. Our old Hyundai store wrapped things up at the end of October, and it has been a whirlwind as we hot-swapped brands....

Time Dealer of the Year Honoree

Our Founder and President – Ray Ciccolo – has been nominated for the 2020 TIME Dealer of the Year award. The TIME Dealer of the Year award is one of the automobile industry’s most prestigious and highly coveted honors. Recipients are among the nation’s...

Farewell Hyundai, Hello Nissan

After much consideration, we have accepted an exciting offer to convert our Hyundai store to a Nissan dealership. Come November 1st, we no longer will be an authorized Hyundai dealer. North Shore Nissan will be the name of our new store. The hardest part of this...

Recognition Well Deserved

As we come up to the one-year anniversary of his induction into the Massachusetts State Auto Dealers Association Hall of Fame, we wanted to once again recognize our leader, Ray Ciccolo. Ray was part of the inaugural class into the Hall of Fame in 2018, as well as the...

Welcome Suburban Auto Body!

 Earlier this year we closed up shop at our Village Collision location in Coolidge Corner. The building was in rough shape, and with a redevelopment project for the property in the works, it was time to move on. We tried to find a suitable property which to move to,...

Swedish Car Day Turns 20!

Amazing to think that our little get together to celebrate Swedish cars will turn 20 on Sunday. Way back when it started last century, we had been the largest Volvo dealer in New England for decades, and had recently brought Saab into our mix when we purchased Charles...

What The Future Looks Like Online

Read a fantastic article in the New York Times recently about the fight to save Notre-Dame cathedral. Not only was it well-written and informative, but it also foreshadowed the future of news articles. Interwoven throughout the text were instructive graphics which...

Boston Volvo 50 Years Ago

This is pretty fascinating – ran across these images online while doing some research on another topic. From 1969, they are shots of the Service Department crew in our old Boston Volvo location in Cambridge (304 Mass Ave). Check them out: Old Boston Volvo Shots ...

Your New Homepage

In the world of search, your website has been taken down a notch. It used to be that your website was the end-all and be-all of your marketing efforts. These days, your Google My Business page is way more essential to your business. As an example, I just performed a...

More Roads Don’t Solve Traffic Issues

If you happen to make a poor decision and drive back home at 2pm on Sunday after a long July 4th weekend, you end up cursing the crush of traffic and getting angry at the State of New Hampshire for not insisting on building more lanes on I-95. You make a simple...