Harvey destroyed or damaging tens of thousands homes across hundreds of square miles in the Houston area and ruined a vast number of vehicles in a region that relies heavily on them.Īs many as 500,000 vehicles - already on the road or still on dealer lots - will need to be replaced, according to an estimate by Cox Automotive, a research firm.
“But you’re also going to have a long list of service work for people whose cars have water damage and need to get back on the road.” “There are some people looking to buy,” said Cary T. South of Houston, in Alvin, the Ron Carter group of four dealerships had customers coming in shortly after the doors opened at 7 a.m. Jackson, chief executive of AutoNation, the country’s largest auto retailer, which owns 17 showrooms in the Houston area.
“We have stores where the phone is ringing off the hook,” said Michael J. As Harvey moved on and patches of blue sky finally appeared over Houston on Thursday, hundreds of car dealerships began reopening across the rain-soaked region - and at least a few were doing a brisk business.īy noon on Thursday, AutoNation Ford in Katy, Tex., had sold 30 new vehicles, mostly pickup trucks to contractors and other tradesmen who were scrambling to get to work repairing the devastation caused by the torrential rains and flooding.
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