Brown County business leaders will join corporate dignitaries from Toyota Motors and Gulf States Toyota to celebrate the ground-breaking of Texas’ newest Toyota dealership on Thursday, October 27, at 11:00 a.m., rain or shine.
Bruner Toyota is holding the Ground Breaking ceremony for their new state-of-the-art Toyota facility at the intersection of Highways 377 and 183N, across from Heartland Mall. The 25,000-square foot full-service dealership will house the full line of Toyota cars, trucks, SUVs and vans as well as a dedicated Toyota Quick Lube. The dealership will also feature Toyota Certified Used Vehicles.
“We are celebrating the fifth anniversary of Toyota’s Tundra and Tacoma manufacturing plant in San Antonio, where they are producing the most dependable full-sized truck in the industry,” says Greg Bruner, President of Bruner Toyota. “We look forward to opening our new dealership just before Labor Day of 2012, weather permitting.”
The state-of-the-art dealership will contain the newest corporate images from Toyota as well as customer-focused features throughout. Bruner continues, “Toyota shares our commitment to being dedicated to the positive customer experience. We are extremely proud to be installing the very latest technology that Toyota showcases at its largest dealerships.”
Consistent with the emphasis on customer comfort, guests will enjoy a comfortable waiting area that is equipped with complimentary WiFi so they may access their wireless computers and notebooks seamlessly.
General Manager Jim Stanley has high expectations for the new dealership location. “When we moved here four years ago, we committed ourselves to being a good corporate citizen while, at the same time, managing a professional operation. We are involved with everything from youth athletics and academics to the arts and the United Way. Our customers will find the same caliber of facilities here that they would find in Dallas or any other major city. That’s the Bruner Toyota commitment.”
Bruner and Toyota officials will make a joint announcement about a local community partnership that will benefit the Brown County area.
About the Bruners:
Dwain and Greg Bruner will receive the prestigious Family Business of the Year Award presented by Baylor University in Waco on November 9. Charlie Bruner was the first family member in the auto-related industry, opening a full-service gas station in Kerens, TX, in 1923. In 1927, his son Vernon added new cars sales and began what is now an 84-year-old love affair between the Bruners and the automotive industry.
In 1962, Vernon’s son Dwain opened his own dealership in Wolfe City, TX. He moved to Stephenville in 1969 to Stephenville, where he has grown his automobile holdings.
In 2007 the Bruners acquired the former Holley Chevrolet and Holley Toyota in Brownwood on East Commerce Street. Today the Bruners have new car operations in Stephenville (8 brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, Buick, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram) and Brownwood (5 brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, Buick and Toyota). Bruner Motors also operates a freestanding used car and lube center operation in Glen Rose and a newly renovated (opened this week) high-technology car wash in Stephenville.
Greg Bruner is President of Bruner Auto Group in Brownwood and Jim Stanley is General Manager. Both Greg and his father Dwain Bruner are the dealer principals of Bruner Auto Group in Brownwood and Bruner Motors, Inc. in Stephenville.
Since 1927, four generations and five Bruners have owned and operated automobile dealerships in Texas.
