Ralph Schomp Automotive gets its start in 1941 in Englewood, Colorado. Roy J. Weaver, one of Colorado’s automotive pioneers, our current CEO’s great-grandfather, relocates from Pueblo, Colorado, where he sold several different makes of automobiles out of the rear of a livery stable. During wartime, even though gasoline and tires are rationed he parks a couple of Oldsmobile out in front of his gas station to tempt customers and does a brisk service business. The dealership has been growing ever since.

Ralph Schomp assumes ownership of Arapahoe Motors from Roy Weaver and changes the name to Ralph Schomp Oldsmobile. Founds Ralph Schomp Imports to represent Land Rover, Rover, Austin and MG automobiles.

Ralph Schomp adds the Japanese-made Honda Civic to its lineup. The Honda line was new in the U.S. Although much smaller than American cars, the Civic was a fortuitous addition with the beginning of the Arab Oil Crisis and gasoline shortages and new environmental rules requiring reduced tailpipe emissions.

Schomp was a trained architect who entered the automobile business to help support his family and protect his wife’s future inheritance. As it turned out, he was pretty good at it. He applied his strong family values and ethics and established in the car-buying public’s mind that, “We run a very simple business.” His peers in Colorado’s automobile business honored those values with its highest award.

Like most every dealership, we have sales. Unlike most, we only have one – every year during the week after the 4th of July. It began this year and it continues to be meaningful because not only do we give our customers the benefit of great pricing, we donate a portion of our profits to The Children’s Hospital Burn Unit.

Lisa Schomp improves the car-buying experience by adopting the “One Price – No-Hassle” sales philosophy in Colorado – the first auto dealer to do so. It was revolutionary and controversial. Customers who had been led to believe that the only way they could buy a car was to bargain – and even to expect to be fooled – were thrilled that now there was a better way.

Schomp Automotive purchases Fay Myers Motorcycle World, Colorado’s largest motorcycle dealership. Fay Myers, one of the nation’s largest motorcycle dealerships represents Ducati, Aprilia, Honda, Kawasaki, Piaggio, Polaris, KTM bikes, MV Agusta, and Suzuki brands as well as Honda Power Equipment.

A sparkling new home for the BMW line opens in Highlands Ranch. The 86,000 square foot facility sets the standard for every other BMW facility to come with its spacious showroom and service department. The dealership site, on a bluff looking over the Rockies on the west and toward the fast-growing Douglas County communities to the south, is roomy enough for future Honda and MINI facilities. Instrumental in the facility’s planning and execution, Lisa Schomp and Mark Wallace’s son, Aaron Wallace, assumes operational control for Schomp Automotive, beginning a fourth generation of leadership in the automobile business.

For the first time in Schomp Automotive’s history, we’ve ventured out of the Denver Metro area, building a new dealership and representing a new brand of automobile. Mercedes-Benz of Farmington opened in 2016 in the suburban Salt Lake City, Utah community of Farmington. We successfully imported the Schomp way of doing business, with all of the customer attention, integrity and excitement that we know how to deliver…and have been for four generations.

In September of 2020, Schomp Automotive partnered with Denver-based Elway Group to acquire Porsche Salt Lake City, the only Porsche Exclusive Dealer in Utah. Since our arrival in Utah, we’ve had goals of continuing to expand our presence there. Porsche Salt Lake City has been serving the Salt Lake Valley since 1958 as one of the first Porsche dealers in the United States. The dealership is a 7-time recipient of the coveted Porsche Premier Dealer Award and one of only seventeen Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur Dealers in the United States. We’re extremely excited about our future in Utah, and we’re proud to be part of such an exciting brand with a celebrated reputation and history.

BMW of Fairfield, which opened July 1st, 2021, in Fairfield, California, marks a new chapter in the growth of the Schomp Automotive Group. We’ve formed a partnership – Fairfield Automotive Partners – with Third Set Partners, a family-owned African-American business, to open the new BMW dealership in Northern California’s Solano County.

VW of Fairfield opened in June of 2023 as the second dealership owned by Fairfield Automotive Partners – a partnership between two family-owned businesses, the Schomp Automotive Group and Third Set Partners. The same partnership that opened BMW of Fairfield in July of 2021. We’re thrilled to represent Volkswagen’s exciting line of products and Electric Vehicles.