Too often, customers think dealer rated service is a rip off, but I’m here to tell you not only is it not a rip-off, but at Key Hyundai it is an affordable, convenient way to keep your nicer, newer car in tip-top shape.

Our service guys and gals at Key Hyundai pride ourselves in providing top-notch, customized, professional service at quick-lube rates with value and personalized service specific to your specific make, model and lifestyle.

And here’s what I have to say about that:

What does this all mean to Hyundai owners all over Connecticut . . . in Hartford, Fairfield, Trumbull, Milford and Vernon?

It means we know who you are, what you drive, and how to get your car in, out, and on the road again so you can get back to work, life, and wherever your Key car may take you.

It means we know your name when you drive into the Key Hyundai shop.

It means we know if you want a loaner, or a ride, or cream in your coffee.

It means we know you work nights, or weekends, or need that car for Meals on Wheels deliveries or to get your kid to soccer.

We know you as much as we know your car. We know what you drive. And we will keep your car running smoothly with certified, highly trained techs, so you can Drive Worry Free for the life of your car.

We’ve been racking our brains to decide how to best share our joy with the Grand Opening of a long-overdue Key Hyundai of Manchester.

February?

Valentine’s day?

It’s perfect!

MORE love and MORE appreciation of course! And add some great music, delicious food, fabulous prizes and lots of fun and we’ve got ourselves a par-tay!

Our new facility is open and I for one, couldn’t be prouder. It’s everything we hoped for and MORE!

We promised MORE for you Connecticut! MORE options, MORE comfort, MORE solutions, MORE financing, MORE value and while a building certainly doesn’t provide these things alone, it houses the tremendous Key Hyundai employees that do. We’re here to give you, Connecticut, MORE.

Customers have been trickling in and lovin’ the service area. The cozy customer lounge. The nicer, newer building! I’ve been getting tons of emails and tweets about how we’re jazzin’ up Route 83 in Vernon!

Come celebrate the new Key Hyundai of Manchester built to stay, service and provide nicer, newer cars to our community right here in Vernon Connecticut. We ain’t going anywhere!

We’re hosting a MORE Love Open House to show off the new place, relax, and celebrate a job well done. Please join us!

Key Hyundai MORE LOVE Open House

Key Hyundai of Manchester

21 Hartford Tpke | Route 83 Vernon Connecticut

Sunday, February 12, 2012    11-3:00 pm

Music, Food, Fun, Raffles and lots & lots of Love!

Hope to see you there!

Shiny new Key Hyundai of Manchester Service area!

Wowzee wow-wow.

A brand new $2.5 million Key Hyundai facility in Vernon Connecticut to replace an old, tired, 1950s has-been duct-tape together building we’ve been selling, servicing and financing cars out of for 10 years.

Woot!

MORE Hyundai 40 mpgers and a sleek body design that has the cars almost selling themselves. Used car options second to done, and the financing to make it happen.

Woot, woot!

Our Milford dealership has beat their numbers again. And again. And again. Customers are sending in friends and family with a never been done before referral program that PAYS them cold hard cash for their referrals. Fairfield County car buyers flood Milford Key Hyundai for that one-on-one personal attention, and the trade-in offers that can’t be beat. By anyone.

Woot, woot, woot!

An over the top presence in two local malls, letting Connecticut car consumers see up close and personal exactly what Hyundai has to offer. A Pays for A’s program that shelled out nearly $10,000 to local high school students for good grades!

Woot x 4!

And then, the North American Car of the Year: the 2012 Hyundai Elantra.

Wowzee-wow-wow. Happy 2012 Connecticut. Happy, happy, happy Key Hyundai indeed!

Key Hyundai of Manchester Move In January 9th, 2012!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year! What does every Dealer For The People want for the holidays?

Besides world peace, happy customers, loyal employees, and community enrichment?

A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY for Key Hyundai of Manchester!

Which is exactly what we got!!

This is the culmination of our massive, MORE for you $2.5 million renovation project at Key Hyundai of Manchester!

That’s right folks, we’re good to go! This January (our targeted date, by the way) is when we are in our new & improved, MORE comfortable,  MORE convenient,  MORE service oriented, MORE fun, MORE fan-tabulous Hyundai facility!

It’s been a long road, and staying open during the construction hasn’t been easy, but we made it work thanks to the hardest working employees in the car business! In any business! And we could not have done this nor would we want to, without you, the customers that trust us everyday to get them in the car they want at the payment they can afford.

Come visit us on Route 83 on Vernon | Manchester town line, and as of January 9th, we’ll be in and wheeling and dealing in our rockin’ new building!

It’s amazing, it’s better than I ever expected, and will bring your MORE value, MORE solutions, MORE financing, MORE comfort, convenience, and class to Connecticut car buyers.

We’re in January 9th, but the grand opening par-tay won’t be until February and not to worry, you’re invited!

Here are the results:

a quick overview of our phenomenal year at Key Hyundai, not just selling cars, but meeting amazing folks who have a story to tell. An amazing year of resilience against storms, construction, and economic fallout.

And yet our employees, our customers, our friends and family all prevail with a New England hearty work ethic, a devotion to family, and a great sense of humor!

I am forever humbled by my customers, my employees, and the community where I live and work.

Again, a straggler post … since this writing Milford students have been flocking to our Milford dealership, and we have met the most amazing families ever! Check out our Key Hyundai Facebook page for more photos, but here’s the first of many updates on this crazy, popular promotion!

Our never-been-done-in-the-history-of-time-and-maybe-even-longer Pays for A’s campaign is off and running! Our very first scholars from Jonathan Law High School in Milford arrived with their parent and their report card showing off several academic As.

So Key Hyundai of Milford forked over the $$$ to these smarty-pants students!

We paid up! Ten bucks in Westfield Post Mall Milford gift cards for every academic A. These girls cleaned up! And our sales staff is so loving meeting and talking with these students, each and every one is a marvel. We have so much to be proud of in these kids!

Report cards are out for Joseph A. Foran High School as well, and Platt Tech and Academy students can cash in when their first marking period ends in December!

Bring in those As, bring your student ID, and a parent or guardian and Key Hyundai of Milford will Pay for A’s at 566 Bridgeport Avenue,  Milford Connecticut!

Key Hyundai’s first ever Old Car Nightmare video contest netted one group of creative boys, and proud mama Dorothy McCafferty, a October Prize Package valued at over $1000!  The McCafferty’s will share gift certificates to Best Buy (for the TV of their choice!), too much candy for any one family to have in their home, scary horror flicks to watch, car detailing from Key Hyundai of Milford, and the bragging rights for a year!

Thanks to all our Facebook friends for playing along, thanks for your patience as we work out the kinds, and we know each contest will build better relationships with our customers and dish out great prizes!

Please check out our Key Hyundai facebook page to check out the winning Key Hyundai Old Car Nightmare video, as I can’t seem to figure out how to post the video here! (If I figure it out, I’ll be back!)

You can upload your Used Car/Old Car Nightmare Video to Key Hyundai’s Facebook page and get a FREE DVD of Stephen King car classic — Christine! Everyone who posts a video gets the DVD, and one lucky nightmare will win the $1000 October Prize package:

• DVD Horror Movie Collection
• $200 gift certificate to trick out your house
• FREE Key Hyundai detailing for all the cars in your driveway
• Witches cauldron of candy
• Gi-norous state-of-the-art LCD HDTV!

Post a video to win! Or just stop by Key Hyundai of Manchester or Key Hyundai of Milford and we’ll shoot and post the video for you! Winner chosen OCTOBER 27th at midnight and posted on Facebook!

Platt Tech, Foran & Law High School students can earn big bucks from Key Hyundai of Milford!

Didja hear? Key Hyundai is getting quite popular in high school!

Key Hyundai is launching Pays for A’s, rewarding Milford high school students from Platt, Foran and Law with cold, hard, gift cards for each academic A received on their report card.

That’s right. $$ for good grades for Key Hyundai of Milford.

We’re just another automotive sponsor supporting our local schools; but this time we’re putting our money where the hard work is: in the students’ grades.

There’s much controversy over paying for grades, but this is strictly a business decision, the brainstorm of my fabulouso General Sales Manager Sal Sinardi. When asked to purchase an advertisement in Milford’s Foran High School’s athletic program, he didn’t opt for the same ol’, same ol’.

Sal wanted something different. Something to excite the kids, get the parents into the dealership, and create a little fanfare. And Key Hyundai Pays for A’s was born.

Foran, Law and Platt Tech students get MORE for good grades from Key Hyundai of Milford

We’re forking over a $10 Westfield CT Post Mall gift cards for each A. But there’s a glitch: the gift cards only come in $20 denominations.

Key Hyundai Rounds UP to bring Milford High School students MORE for their hard work!

So one A will net a student a $20 gift card. Two A’s: same. Three A’s = $40 in gift cards. Fuzzy math, but the kids end up winning!

Platt Tech, Joseph A. Foran High, and Jonathan Law High School students are all eligible to participate. They need only earn the A’s, then bring in their report card, student ID, and a parent to receive payment.

What’s in it for us?

It’s simple really. We get high achieving students with their parents walking through our showroom. Hopefully eyeballing some cars, perhaps taking a test drive. Perhaps not – but now Key Hyundai is on their radar, and will see with their own eyes what we have to offer.

It’s a pilot program. We’re learning as we go too. If all goes well, we’ll roll out to Manchester/Vernon as well. But for now, Milford students are the guinea pigs. Get to work kids, study hard, and come on in to collect!

H'Art of Art Saturday, October 15

This Saturday, October 15, is really one of my all time favorite events – EV-AH! Key Hyundai jumped at the chance to support this phenomenal cause: supporting a grassroots effort, a world-class children’s hospital, and a hometown event.

The talented Olivia Hanzel, owner and artist extraordinaire at Bumblebug Art is sponsoring H’Art of Art, a day of fun, art, and compassion right in West Hartford.

H’art of Art is Saturday, October 15, rain or shine, and everyone at Key Hyundai has fingers crossed for lots of sunshine!

It’s a day of creativity for you and your kids; where you can have a fabulous day right in downtown West Hartford, and support a great cause: Connecticut Children’s Foundation, dedicated to improving the health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy.

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is filled with amazing physicians, nurses, and health care providers and support that selflessly give to CT children, their families, and caregivers.

And H’Art of Art is a way to celebrate the creativity alive in all children.

Much thanks to my hometown of West Hartford, and my good friend Olivia, for supporting this all-time favorite hospital of mine.

Come on down to Bumblebug Art, 970 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford Center, rain or shine this Saturday. Together, we can make a little art, raise awareness, create masterpieces, and make a little magic.