Q&A with 2022 NADA chairman Mike Alford

During the group’s NADA Show event in Las Vegas, North Carolina dealer Mike Alford will become the 2022 chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association. 

Alford, who is the dealer principal at Marine Chevrolet in Jacksonville as well as Trent Buick Trent Buick GMC and Trent Cadillac in New Bern, will be the second NADA chairman in the past nine years from the Tar Heel State, which is home to Sonic Automotive and Hendrick Automotive Group.

David Westcott of Burlington, N.C., was the 2013 chairman. That same year, Alford was named the TIME Dealer of the Year. 

Below is an emailed Q&A with Alford …