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What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray. We hope you are having a happy holiday season so far! Featured Vehicle: This week’s featured vehicle is this stunning 2021 Colorado Z71. This particular vehicle is Bright Blue Metallic with Jet Black interior. Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Sean! Sean is the Floor Manager/Corvette Specialist. He has been a member of the Stingray family for eight years! What does Sean love about Stingray?: “I love the way we strive to reverse the “old school” stigma that surrounds car dealers. Since this is the first and only dealership I have ever worked at, I do not have any first hand experience of how other stores operate, but after hearing stories from coworkers about their personal experiences elsewhere as well as customer testimonials raving about their experience with Stingray, I am positive that I would never want to work anywhere else.” Additional insight: “The variety of vehicles that come through this store makes every day a surprise! From exotic supercars, classic cars, and rare race cars, to motorcycles, boats, and RV’s, Stingray Chevrolet makes any visit a potential chance to step into a time warp! We are also the #6 largest Corvette dealership in the world so if you haven’t had a chance to see a new mid-engine Corvette, this is the place to come!” Thank you Sean!

What’s New?: Welcome back! Cold weather is finally here. Stop by and see our Christmas decorations. Angel Tree: Stingray Chevrolet is proud to spread holiday cheer in our community. In partnering with the Kiwanis Club Angel Tree program, our team members provided gifts for 400 local children! Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Celene! Celene is has been a member of the Stingray family for one year. She is a vital member of the Parts department. What does Celene love about Stingray?: “What I love most about working at Stingray is the bond i have created with my co workers. Everyone is always there to lend a helping hand or a word of encouragement. I love working for Stingray and the friendships I have created so far in my journey here.” Shoutouts: “shoutout to my home girls…. Halie, Jody and Brooke” Thanks Celene!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! Let’s dive in! Thanksgiving: Stingray Chevrolet is thankful for our team members, customers, and community. We hope that everyone has a safe and joyous Thanksgiving! Featured Team Member: Today’s featured team member is Dylan! Dylan is a member of the Sales department. He has been a member of the Stingray family for one year. What does Dylan love about Stingray?: “What I love most about my time at Stingray Chevrolet is the family oriented and customer focused atmosphere. I’ve only been working here for 1 year and I actually enjoy coming to work everyday! In my first year I’ve made some great friends and even gained a couple role models that constantly go out of their way to help me to be a better salesman. I hope to call Stingray my home for many years to come!” Thanks Dylan!!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! Thanksgiving is right around the corner and it finally feels like fall. We hope you come see us this holiday season! Featured Vehicle: The week we are featuring yet another C8 Convertible. This car is just too cool to ignore. Check out the Dipped Morello Red Interior! Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Krystal! Krystal has been a member of the Stingray family for two years. She is a Service Drive Coordinator in the Service department. What does Krystal love about Stingray?: “The people I work with. We’re all like one big family inside and outside of work. I started working at Stingray Chevrolet with my dad for his lawn service as a teen. Two years ago I was given the porter position, that’s where my journey began. It led me to the position I have now as a Service Drive Coordinator. Thanks to the people I’m surrounded by.” Thank you Krystal!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! Yesterday was Veterans Day. We are forever grateful for the sacrifices and service of our nation’s Veterans. Please stay safe as Tropical Storm Eta continues to make landfall in Florida. Featured Vehicle: Today’s featured vehicle is this 1990 454 SS. This vehicle is a showstopper! Visit us and see it for yourself 🙂 Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Aaron! Aaron works in the Parts department and he has been a member of the Stingray family for seven years. What does Aaron love about Stingray?: “I love getting up every morning knowing I have a job that I love coming to. Its not a miserable ride in thinking “great here goes another day”. I love my job and the people that I work with. They truly make it feel like you have a second family and most of them have become family. The job has its many stresses like any other job but the culture and vibe here overweighs the bad and makes everything totally worth it. To have owners that are so involved in their community and even the lives of their own employees is something I have never experienced at any other dealership. We truly have a culture that no one else has and wouldn’t trade it for anything!!!” Words to live by: “Life’s a garden, DIG IT!!” Shoutout: “HI MOM!!!” Thank you Aaron!!!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! November is here and we finally have some cooler weather. We hope that everyone got an opportunity to vote yesterday! Halloween: Stingray takes Halloween extremely seriously. This year, our annual costume contest looked a little different. We visited each department to see what creative costumes the Stingray family had come up with. For more photos, click here. Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Ramona! Ramona has been a member of the Stingray family for three and a half years. She currently is an Internet Sales Rep in the BDC Sales department. What does Ramona love about Stingray?: “Wow! that is so much… I started here as a Fleet Driver, and Then we needed a Service Porter and my Supervisor walked me over and told my Service boss “this is your girl.” I worked there for a while then, I was able to move to my new home in the BDC. I love all the people I have worked with along the way at Stingray, We are a family we encourage each other to do all we can for our customers and our fellow co-workers. I have never worked for a company that is so caring toward its employees and their customers… We truly are FAMILY.” Words to live by: “A positive attitude leads to positive outcomes.”

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! November is almost here and we are excited for some cooler weather. We have some exciting stuff happening at the dealership! The Ultimate Corvette and Chevy Show: Last Saturday, we hosted The Ultimate Corvette and Chevy Show, organized by Tampa Bay Vettes to benefit Unity in the Community. The show had an excellent turnout. Thank you to everyone that came out! For more photos, click here. Pumpkins!: The ladies of Stingray got in the Halloween spirit by painting pumpkins! For more photos, click here. Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Steven. Steven is a part of the Service department, particularly working in detail. He has been a member of the Stingray family for two years. What does Steven love about Stingray?: “Love that everyone works as a team! We are more like family than coworkers. The first job I worked where the owners go out their way for all their employees and recognize everyone hard work. Thankful for having the opportunity to be apart of the Stingray family.” Thank you Steven!!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray! Stop by the dealership this Saturday for “The Ultimate Corvette and Chevy Show”. The car show, organized by Tampa Bay Vettes, will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information and registration, click here. Featured Vehicle: Today’s featured vehicle is this sporty 2021 Trailblazer RS. The Trailblazer is one of the first we have seen in the Oasis Blue exterior color. It is a customer and social media follower favorite! Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Kyla! Kyla works in Fleet and Commercial, and she has been a member of the Stingray family for a year and a half. What does Kyla love about Stingray?: “From the first time I stepped into Stingray for my job interview, it felt like I was meeting a big family. I met with Steve Hurley plus multiple directors and team members and they were all so welcoming and supportive in finding me the right place in the team. It’s great that even though my department is in a separate building from the main showroom, meeting with so many people on that first day helped make me feel connected with all the other departments. I feel so grateful to have landed in the fleet & commercial family, and that’s exactly what they have become to me – family. It is refreshing to be in an environment where everyone is supportive and encouraging of one another. If a team member is down, we all do our part to help raise them up and that’s part of what makes Stingray such an amazing place to work. This positive attitude trickles into our customer service and relations and even into the community and I believe that’s what sets us above the rest. I feel so blessed to be a part of the Stingray family. STINGRAY RULES!! “ Words to live by: “Love thy neighbor. Widen your heart. If we live with wide open hearts, it preaches to a world that needs more love. “ Thank you Kyla!!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray. We apologize for not posting a blog last week, as we were busy with “Coffee with a Cop”. We hope that everyone has had a wonderful October so far. Stop by the dealership to see some of our festive decorations! Coffee with a Cop: Thank you to everyone who came to the event. We hope you all had a great time! Below are some photos from the event. More pictures can be found on our Facebook page. Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Willie! Willie has been a member of the Stingray family for seven years. He is a Service Technician in the Service department. What does Willie love about Stingray?: “A chance to work with a winning staff dedicated to giving great service to our wide variety of customers, seeing them smile when you give the best service they can get in central Florida, and working with great owners who treat you as one of the family.” Words to live by: “Stingray is the place to be.” Thank you Willie!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray. As we enter October, we are as excited as you are for cooler weather and the fall season. Coffee with a Cop: “Coffee with a Cop” is taking place on Wednesday, October 7th from 7 AM to 10 AM here at Stingray. We would love to have you join us for free coffee and pastries. The event is an excellent opportunity to show appreciation for our local law enforcement. More information regarding the event can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there! Featured Team Member: Time for this week’s featured team member! Today we are featuring Larry. Larry is the New Car Director in the Sales department. He has been a member of the Stingray family for two and a half years. What does Larry love about Stingray?: “I love my teammates! We have all subscribed to a culture that I would have never believed could exist at a car dealership. After twenty years in this business, I thought I had seen it all. I was very wrong. The compassion, respect, integrity, teamwork, openness, and passion for making every employee and customer not only satisfied, but a delighted new member of our family is truly is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. I am proud of Stingray Chevrolet. I am proud to tell everyone I speak to that I work at Stingray Chevrolet. I am proud that when I go home at night I know that as a team we all did everything we could to make every employee and customer experience a delightful engagement. Working in the New Car Sales department, I also take great pride in having helped my fellow Directors and Sales Professionals move our New Car Sales volume to the top 1% of the country in overall sales, and into the top five overall of New Corvette sales volume! I am very grateful for Mr. and Mrs. Hurley, John Whaley, Neal Myer, and Scott Ledbetter for accepting me into the Stingray Family!” Words to live by: “My favorite quotes are: “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it”, “No one can eat 50 eggs”, and “Buying a car doesn’t have to suck!”. Shoutout to Victoria and Roberta for always having my back and giving me all of the tools I need to be successful.” Thank you!

What’s New?: Welcome back to This Week At Stingray. Today we have news about upcoming events and more! Coffee with a Cop: Please come join us for “Coffee with a Cop” to show appreciation and support for our local law enforcement!The Plant City Police Department, Hillsborough County Sheriffs Department, Florida Highway Patrol, and Florida Fish and Wildlife will be at Stingray Chevrolet to share a free cup of coffee with you Wednesday, October 7th! “Coffee with a Cop” was started five years ago as a nationwide initiative to build relationships with the men and women who protect and serve our communities. The goal is to meet and interact with law enforcement officials over a cup of coffee! Donuts and pastries will also be available. You can stick around and chat, or you can simply drive through, get your free coffee, and say hello. We will be following the CDC guidelines to keep you safe. We greatly appreciate the wearing of masks while inside the building and for practicing social distancing. For more info, please visit our Facebook event page linked here. Featured Team Member: This week’s featured team member is Raquel! Raquel is the Office Manager in the body shop. She has been a valued member of the Stingray family for four years. What does Raquel love about Stingray?: “What I love the most about my time here is the amazing relationships I have developed with the people here, Not only in my department but all over the dealership. You always feel welcomed here. The culture Stingray has is great.” Words to live by: “Growth doesn’t happen in comfort.” Shout outs: “Big Shout out to my work besties who make the day so much fun!!!! Daniela & Chadillac“ Thank you Raquel!

What’s New?: Welcome back to this week’s edition of This Week At Stingray. We hope everyone is having a great September. Make sure you are following our social media for more information regarding our September specials. Featured Vehicle: This week’s featured vehicle is in some ways a repeat, but we couldn’t help ourselves. The first orders of the convertible C8s are being delivered and we thought it would nice to share. This is a year of firsts for the Corvette. The change to a mid-engine design means that in order to maintain the tradition of a convertible option, the convertible Corvette would need to be the first of it’s kind with a hardtop. The result is an impressive and easy process of putting the roof down. Instead of describing it, we will link a video here. Featured Team Member: Today’s featured team member is Hunter from the Sales department. Hunter has been a valued member of the Stingray family for one year. What does Hunter love about Stingray?: “It had been my dream for over 5 years to work for Stingray Chevrolet, and now that I do, every day it feels like a dream come true! After working at a small local dealership and seeing all my new friends leave to go to the promise land of Stingray Chevrolet, I knew that one day I had to join them! I wanted to find that dealership to call my own that really felt like home. Stingray is definitely a family home that is welcoming to all. Its been amazing and so much fun working with my best friends everyday doing what we love to do, which is to Sell Cars! Everyone on staff here from sales to service to the body shop, we all have a role here at the dealership. You really get this sense of feeling from meeting them that they know what they are doing and have the confidence to do it the right way the first time, every time! The Stingray way is to put the customer first. I take pride in really knowing the product, especially Trucks and Corvettes. We always work together to create new processes to help customers get in and out in a timely and fun manner so they can enjoy their day with their new car, so I can also sell more cars too! Our expertise carries over to other departments like the service department’s express lane that gets customers in and out as fast as possible! Fast and Friendly is the motto here! Inside or out of work I always feel a sense of pride of working here. when people see me they ask where I work I say “Stingray Chevy baby!” Which most people replay with the Jingle oh you mean “Stingray Chevrolet…. relax and enjoy the difference” When you work here you really feel the stingray pride and sense of belonging to something greater than yourself. With getting to see the owners work hard for the community they serve everyday makes me just want to work twice as hard to make a great experience each and everyday with my customers. At the end of the day when I go home I feel accomplished that i made a difference in someone it makes it all worth it in the end. This is my dream of the stingray way and why I can finally say I found my forever home! Working at Stingray is always fun and filled with challenges to help me grow as an individual every day. In this way, we all get better, stronger, and find new ways to have fun with customers and coworkers. It really feels like an ever-growing family here and I wake up every day feeling truly blessed to work here.” Words to live by: “You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take so make them all count!” Thank you Hunter for your hard work and kind words!