Mungenast Automotive Family proudly recognizes Co-Owner Ray Mungenast for his featured article on?Automotive News, an industry-leading website dedicated to providing the latest automotive news to industry insiders, the media, and the general public. ?Ray is the incoming 2012 chairman of the AIADA, or American International Auto Dealer Association, which is comprised of over 10,000 import dealer members nationwide. ?Below you?ll find an except of the article, but to read it in its entirety, the full article can be viewed on?Automotive News.
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St. Louis native Ray Mungenast will represent 10,000 import-brand dealerships as 2012? chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. ?Along with his two brothers, he heads the Mungenast Automotive Family, which owns five auto dealerships and one motorsports store in the St. Louis and Alton, Ill., areas.??His father, Dave Mungenast Sr., founded the dealership group in 1965 when he opened its first storefront, a Honda motorcycle dealership. From there, the group branched out into autos, opening a Toyota store in 1967 and later adding Honda automobiles, Acura, Lexus, Hyundai and Scion.
The middle child of the three brothers, Ray Mungenast got into the family business in 1985 working at the Honda motorcycle store. He completed training at the National Automobile Dealers Association?s candidate academy in 1986 and went to work at the family?s Acura store in 1989. ?He got his first glimpse of Washington?s policy world in 1992 when he traveled there with his father to attend an AIADA congress. ?I?ve gone every year consecutively since then,? Mungenast said.
His father, a motorcycle racing champion, part-time Hollywood stuntman and member of the American Motorcyclist Association?s Motorcycle Hall of Fame, was AIADA chairman in 1998; he died in 2006.
Ray Mungenast
Dealerships: 5 automobile dealerships (Lexus of St. Louis, St. Louis Acura, St. Louis Honda, Alton Toyota-Scion, Mungenast Hyundai); 1 Honda-Victory motorcycle dealership
2011 sales: 4,904 new, 3,483 used
Source ? Automotive News
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