Sonic Suspends Some EchoPark Operations

Company cites the impacts of lower used-vehicle availability and higher wholesale pricing as the reasons.
Company cites the impacts of lower used-vehicle availability and higher wholesale pricing as the reasons.
Poor retail sales were offset by a 3.1% increase in total F&I gross profit and a 40.5% increase in revenue at Sonic Automotive's EchoPark locations. While declining oil prices have hurt the company's performance in the Houston market, officials are confident the group will recover.
Record F&I and fixed-ops gross profit helped Sonic Automotive offset low vehicle sales. But the big story for the publicly traded dealer group was the performance of the F&I offices at its one-touch EchoPark dealerships. They increased their per-copy averages by 54.1%.
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