Top Rated Car Dealers in the Greater Dallas Area

There are well over 200 new car dealers in and around the greater Dallas area which makes it pretty easy to find a car dealer – but what about finding a dealer that won’t try to trick you into options you don’t want, or trap you in agreements and contracts you don’t need or overcharge you in one of the many ways they know how? To find that kind of car dealer you need help; the help of someone who knows the business, someone like the folks at Consumer Guide® Automotive.

For almost 40 years Consumer Guide® Automotive has been evaluating automobiles; evaluating manufacturers, recommending the best in each category of vehicle (much like Consumer Reports does for thousands of other products) and publishing their findings in their magazines and on the Internet. They must be very good at what they do; they’ve been a successful business for all those years and, just recently, their website, ConsumerGuide.com was named the “Best of the Web” within the “Car Buying” category by Forbes.com (read their review HERE).

Consumer Guide® Automotive also evaluates car dealers and publishes a list of CG Approved Dealers. They are obviously very picky! Out of all the car dealers in or near Dallas, only six have made it on the CG Approved Dealers list: Classic Chevrolet in Grapevine, Texas (north of Dallas, near DFW Airport), John Eagle Honda of Dallas in Dallas and the four Lawrence Marshall dealerships (Honda, Nissan, Scion and Toyota) all located together in Denison, TX (a far north suburb of Plano, TX).

Classic Chevrolet in Grapevine, Texas

Location:

1101 State Highway 114

Grapevine, TX 76051

Toll free phone: 888-366-1263

Classic Chevrolet was moved from Dallas to a much larger (11 acre) property in Grapevine in 1992 and since then has doubled in size to 22 acres with more than enough room for new cars and trucks, pre-owned cars and trucks and repair facilities.

On the subject of customer service, Tom Durant, the owner of Classic Chevrolet, has the stated goal for Classic Chevrolet of maintaining its status of one of the “best known and most respected dealerships in the Metroplex” and to “make the buying experience as non-confrontational and hassle-free as possible.

John Eagle Honda of Dallas

Location:

5311 Lemmon Avenue

Dallas, TX 75209

Toll Free Phone: 888-353-0689

John Eagle Honda sells and services new and pre-owned Honda cars and trucks and prides itself on being a very customer-oriented dealership. Their internet site encourages communication with the dealership’s management team and provides a link to “Ownerlink.” a service provided by Honda and Acura to allow their customers to keep in touch with their vehicle’s maintenance needs and requirements as well as their financial services account.

Lawrence Marshall Honda/Nissan/Scion/Toyota

Location:

2020 North US Highway 75

Denison, TX 75020

Toll Free Phone: 888.520.8804

These four Lawrence Marshall dealerships, all located together in Dennison, Texas, are part of a chain of Lawrence Marshall dealerships that are owned by Ray Childress, the former All Pro defensive lineman for the Houston Oilers. He started out as a spokesman for Lawrence Marshall when Marshall owned three dealerships in Hempsted, Texas and then, when Lawrence Marshall retired, he purchased the business and “grew” it into 36 Lawrence Marshall automobile dealerships located between Dallas and Houston.

The dealership’s philosophy calls for honesty, friendliness, the best prices, the best service and personal attention to every customer; that was the Lawrence Marshall’s philosophy and is now the Ray Childress philosophy.