Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award
The Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award is an annual Time Magazine-sponsored award, in partnership with Ally Financial, honoring new car dealers in America who exhibit exceptional performance in their dealerships and perform distinguished community service. It is the automobile industry's most prestigious and coveted award for car dealerships. Dealers are nominated by members of the Automotive Trade Association Executives. Finalists and winners are chosen by a panel of faculty members from the University of Michigan's . The "TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year" award is presented at the annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention.
National ''TIME'' Dealer of the Year Winners
1960s
- 1960 — W. Bankston
- 1961 — John Landers
- 1962 — Richard Stoudt, Sr.
- 1963 — I. Burton
- 1964 — Charles Medick
- 1965 — Herb Abramson
- 1966 — George Higgins
- 1967 —
- 1968 — C. Thomas
- 1969 — William Rohrer
1970s
- 1970 — O. Noller
- 1971 — Nicholas Lattof
- 1972 — Roy Butler
- 1973 — Harmon Born
- 1974 — Rolland Patterson
- 1975 — W. Cook
- 1976 — Frank England, Jr.
- 1977 — Warren McEleney and Robert Rice
- 1978 — Edward Glockner
- 1979 — John Pohanka
1980s
- 1980 — Edward Rikess
- 1981 — Ray Shepherd
- 1982 — Richard Strauss
- 1983 — John Cooper
- 1984 — James Willingham
- 1985 — H.F. Boeckmann, II
- 1986 — Joshua Darden
- 1987 — Bob Russell
- 1988 — Sam Pack
- 1989 — Lou Fusz
1990s
- 1990 — James Lupient
- 1991 — Jack Krenzen
- 1992 — Sheilah Garcia
- 1993 — Richard Fitzpatrick, Jr.
- 1994 — Lorne Schlatter
- 1995 — William Adamson
- 1996 — David Parker
- 1997 — Talton Anderson
- 1998 — Dale Critz, Sr. and Randy Hansen
- 1999 — Charlie Zook
2000s
- 2000 — Don Williamson
- 2001 — Martin NeSmith
- 2002 — George Nahas
- 2003 — John Bergstrom
- 2004 — Paul Holloway
- 2005 — Ralph Seekins
- 2006 — Bennie F. Ryburn III
- 2007 — Tracy Shields Jones
- 2008 — Timothy J. Smith
- 2009 — George P. Fritze
2010s
- 2010 — Scott H. Wood
- 2011 — Thomas Castriota in Hudson, Florida
- 2012 — Mike Shaw
- 2013 — Michael Alford
- 2014 — Jeff Teague
- 2015 — Andy Crews
- 2016 — Mary Catherine Van Bortel
- 2017 - Carl Swope
- 2018 - Jack Salzman
- 2019 - John Alfirevich
- 2020 - Susan Moffitt