From TexAgs Sponsor,
Greg Gunn
Managing Partner
Aggieland Chevrolet:

I am the in-town business owner of Aggieland Chevrolet who manages the day-to-day operations of a small business that serves all of Brazos Valley and surrounding areas with their vehicle sales and service needs.



I spent my formative years going to junior high and high school in Willis, Texas which is about an hour from here. After high school graduation 1987 I left home and drove to Boston to start my building career as a carpenter. Upon returning to Texas in 1992 I got into home improvement, remodeling, design and building services.

My best friend of 32 years is Shelley, and we just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary earlier this year. We have 2 children, a son Clayton and daughter Corey. and we have 3 beautiful grandchildren, twins Hayden(girl) and Landon(boy) that will be 8 this fall. Lincoln is their little brother, and he will be 4 this fall. If I get my way, all 3 will attend Texas A&M. They are a handful and such a blessing. All of them like being up at the dealership with me. My oldest grandson is really into trucks he has already picked out a black Trail Boss 1500 Silverado.

When I am not working, I enjoy offshore fishing, spending time with my children and grandchildren. My wife and I like traveling. Now at 55 years old I have decided to start golfing since I can now hit from the white tees. We also enjoy Aggie sports.



When I was offered GM position here and to be the owner operator of Aggieland Chevrolet, I was extremely honored to be giving such an opportunity. This is a huge responsibility. I have been in automotive since 2007 when I left the building industry after 14 years and started a new career selling vehicles. In the last 35 years I have obtained a wealth of knowledge in sales, construction, finance, customer service, leadership, development and community.

While I have only been here a short time, just over 2 and half years, I am very proud of the relationships we have developed, and the partnerships forged. In these 30 months, we have made charitable contributions just under $400,000 and are on our way to a total of over a million in the next few years. The list is long and continues growing each year. We try to accommodate as many organizations and charities as possible. This is such a blessing to be able to give back. Here is just a partial list of the charities we have supported:
Coach Gary Blair Charity, Aggie Anglers, Local chapters CCA, Aggieland CCA, NRA, Ducks Unlimited
Brazos Valley Boys and Girls Club, Big Brother/Big Sister. Brazos Youth Livestock Show & Auction
Bluebonnets StreetRod'ers Annual Meet, Bryan American Legion Boys State Convention
Allen Academy Folds of Honor, Brazos Valley Cares Steak your support, Operation Safe Shield
OPAS Encore Gala, AHA Heart Ball Gala, Hispanic Forum Gala, Texas A & M Coaches Night
BCS marathon, Junior Achievement, Twin City Mission, Bryan ISD Teacher Education Foundation.



Aggieland Chevrolet is committed to being a great partner to this wonderful community.
There are many Aggie graduates at the top and sprinkled all throughout. We typically have 15 to 20 Aggie interns each year.

Even though Aggieland Chevrolet is part of a larger privately owned dealer group, I run Aggieland Chevrolet. My partners have entrusted me with handling the day-to-day aspects of business. While I can't control or change anything that has happened at other dealerships in our group, I am very proud of my team here at Aggieland Chevrolet. Most of all we value relationships in our community, with customers and our employees.

Since I have been here, we have added 3 GM Master Certified Technicians and double the total number of technicians, Service Advisors and Parts Dept employees. All of these increases were made to handle the growing needs of our community. While it hasn't been without obvious growING pains, we have earned consecutive General Motors "Mark of Excellence" & "Elite Dealer" for 2002 & 2023. We are on track to do it again in 2024.

We currently employ 8 former members of our US military. We have 5 TAMU graduates employed with us. One of last year's interns has worked all year part time and is committed to joining our team full time after he graduates in 2025. We currently have 2 interns finishing their 8-week internship at the end of July.

I am confident Aggieland Chevrolet will strive to live up to the core values of a business in Aggieland where traditions run deep.

Why does that surprise you?

Because it's not good for anyone when your customer base and advertisers are odds with each other.

lb3 said:

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Because it's not good for anyone when your customer base and advertisers are odds with each other.

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You and I are not Texags customers, Keating is. Our attention is simply the product Texags sells to their customers.

Another warm Texags Auto Board welcome I see.

Anyways, great to see you on here Greg. Love Greg, he's one of the great Partners in our Auto Group and we are VERY fortunate to have him here operating our local Chevy store. We work together all of the time and he's a great guy and an exceptional operator.

And don't @ me. I have been posting on this auto board since I was a young business student at Texas A&M. I have spent plenty of time on this board doing whatever I could to help in some of the situations that were brought up here at stores of ours in other metro areas, and in many circumstances I was able to help. I have done nothing but try to add value to this board whenever I could, as well as run a great business here in College Station.

I've had several of you come see me at my office simply because you wanted to learn more about the auto business and I have always taken the time to work on the relationship between my store and this forum. Greg is no different, if you had an issue at his store he would be the first one to jump in and see what he could do to help.

Chewy said:

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That makes sense on using it for your protection. I actually hadn't thought of that. Appreciate that explanation.

However, why don't yall offer to remove it for the customer? Based on threads here it sounds like it's never offered.

Is it essentially a LoJack style system offered free of charge to the customer? There is zero data tracking by any party?

I only know what is posted on TexAgs. It sounds like a device the customer isn't fully aware and offers data tracking without their knowledge.

Any clarification is appreciated.

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Any customer that purchases a vehicle (new or used) with that device absolutely is made aware of it, if it is being sold at one of our locations. If it was traded in somewhere else than no, they are most likely not aware of it because they themselves might not even know it was on the vehicle to begin with.

But anyone can call Apex and make sure it's off or pull it out of the vehicle all together. It's all been made to look by this board to be some sinister plot to track all of the Texag Auto Board members but it's just a theft recovery device, and one that is frankly a basic commodity in todays auto business. They are everywhere, some just have a few added features that can provide more value to the customer.

I sell cars every day where the price of that unit or any other what we would call "hard adds" are negotiated off the sale price of the vehicle. And yes I have removed them completely for customers if it is a deal breaker. Some stores are more flexible than others but at the end of the day we make our own unique decisions at our stores. I doubt Greg would want to miss your business over a theft recovery device.

Addendums aren't new to the automotive industry and certainly aren't a "Keating" invention.

We never paid for the Apex system on any of our Hyundai's so i give you a pass on this. Folks just need to say no when presented with that product on the sales worksheet.

Sorry for derailing this thread any more that it already was, and I would rather not get into a bunch of back and forth in Aggielands thread. I really just wanted to come in here because of the great job that Greg does at Aggieland and because my name came up.