Auto Dealership News
Aristocrat Motors Sponsors Kansas City's "Buffalo Run" Road Rally
Dealership Hosts Music Festival Finale
OCTOBER 26, 2006, KANSAS CITY, KS – With almost 200 premier automobiles powering from venue to venue across Kansas and Missouri and competing in a European-styled road rally, the natural destination for the vehicles was Soave Automotive Group’s ARISTOCRAT MOTORS. The Shawnee Mission, Kansas luxury automotive dealership was the presenting sponsor of “Buffalo Run,” a 100-mile adventure organized by KC Magazine.
Organizers compiled an on-going schedule of public and private events for October 13 and 14 throughout the metropolitan area. At 8:30 a.m. on Friday morning, ARISTOCRAT MOTORS’ President and General Manager Mike Maurutto kicked off “Buffalo Run” with a wave of his green flag on historic Country Club Plaza. The participants, including many local celebrities, tooled from checkpoint to checkpoint, learning their next destination along the way.
ARISTOCRAT MOTORS hosted the event’s finale, a free music festival headlined by five bands and boasting Budweiser-provided food and beverages. On Saturday evening, when the participants reached the finish line outside the dealership, Maurutto addressed the crowd once again. He had the honor of welcoming everyone and presenting a check to the event’s beneficiary, the local Ronald McDonald House.
“It was a wonderful opportunity for ARISTOCRAT MOTORS to be able to sponsor and host this fantastic event,” said Maurutto. “Rarely is there a venue which brings together the community for a day and evening of enjoyment and enables us to make a contribution to such a worthwhile charity.”
Aristocrat Motors is an affiliate of Soave Enterprises, L.L.C., www.soave.com. Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony L. Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others. Recently, Forbes Magazine ranked Soave Enterprises as the 192nd largest privately held company in the United States.
