
Portland-South Portland, ME – Summit Automotive Partners,
parent company to Berlin City Auto Group, announced the acquisition of Burt Toyota Scion and
Burt Subaru, located in Denver, Colorado. The two auto dealerships have been renamed Groove Toyota Scion
and Groove Subaru. Summit Automotive Partners is owned and managed by George Gillett and Rod Buscher.
George Gillett had only kind words of appreciation for the Burt organization’s Colorado legacy,
which is family owned and has been a fixture on Broadway’s auto row for 70 years. “I want to salute the Chavez family
for their long history of community involvement, service and contribution to our state’s automotive industry,” He said.
At the Tokyo Motor Show last october 2007, they presented cool designs, high tech car parts, and bizarre concept cars .

One of the cars presented here is the Nissan’s “Pivo 2″ that is an electric car with a revolving cabin that can park the car sideways. Nissan “Pivo 2″ has a robotic agent that can read facial expressions. And what’s amazing hear is they can calm down the driver if they were feeling upset.

Another car presented here is Honda’s “Puyo.” It is a car covered with soft silicone to avoid harming the driver or pedestrians during a crash.

A new prototype for a new van was unveiled by Nissan which is called “NV-200.” On the other hand, Suzuki showed the electric “sharing coach” which contains two individual “Pixy” transportation units.