Hills Garages has an aversion to 'Wolf of Wall Street'-style quick wins

Trading from two showrooms inside the M25 at Woodford, Essex, the small dealer group is a long-serving, well reputed partner of Toyota and Lexus, who’ve had hybrid cars on the market since the late 1990s.

Hills is one of the strongest performing Toyota and Lexus partners in the UK, solidly profitable, and in 2019 its revenues reached £62.9m from its single showrooms for each brand – which are uniquely separated by just a pub, The Horse & Well, which serves as a reminder of the neighbourhood farriers business the Hill family started with in 1905.

Aftersales director John Crisp says the motor retailer is well positioned within the M25, and because it has been in the same spot for years it has a strong reputation in the area.