SCI-FLEET has confirmed itself as the nation’s biggest Toyota dealer group after buying a share in major Western Australian dealership, City Toyota.

One of City Toyota’s partners sold to Sci-Fleet and the second shareholder, Wayne Smith, remains as dealer principal and part owner. City Toyota operates from Perth’s Northbridge CBD precinct and from Nedland in Perth’s western suburbs.

Sci-Fleet spokesman Jarrod Marshall said the purchase brings the company’s Toyota sales outlets to eight with the addition of three service centres.

He said that for 37 years, everything Sci-Fleet has done has been in Toyota and Lexus brands, though the business has interests in smaller dealerships including Mazda.

City Toyota Northbridge

City Toyota has occupied the Northbridge site for about five years, having moved from a CBD location shared with Toyota WA Distributors.

The distributor, which operates independently to Toyota Motor Company Australia, now has a purpose-built complex in the metropolitan south-east industrial suburb of Kewdale.

The Northbridge premises has a long history of automotive retailing and was previously the Centre Ford dealership. Sci-Fleet will lease the premises.

By Neil Dowling

City Toyota Nedlands