The Family That Sells a Toyota and a Koenigsegg Under One Roof
How a father's Bronx car lot became a $1 billion, seven-story, EV-wired empire selling everything from a $25,000 Toyota to a Koenigsegg hypercar under one North Miami roof.
Drive north out of Miami along Biscayne Boulevard and, around 151st Street, a seven-story building rises out of the flat coastal sprawl like a parked ocean liner. Inside, on the same set of floors, you can lease a Toyota for a monthly payment most families would recognize - or wire the price of a small house for a Koenigsegg most people will only ever see in a video game. That range, from the everyday to the almost unobtainable, is the whole idea behind Warren Henry Auto Group.
Warren Henry Auto Group is a family-owned automotive retailer headquartered in North Miami, Florida. Founded in 1976 by Warren Henry Zinn, it is described as one of the state's longest-standing private, family-owned dealership groups. Today it runs six franchise locations stretched from Key West to Naples, employs more than 400 people, and generates close to $1 billion in annual revenue. What sets it apart from a typical dealer chain is the sheer width of what it sells: roughly 17 brands, spanning mainstream, premium and hypercar tiers, often within a short walk of one another.
The originFrom the Bronx to Biscayne Boulevard
The story does not start with Warren Henry Zinn. It starts with his father. The Zinn family's automotive history is usually traced to 1955, when David Zinn sold Lincolns from a lot in the Bronx. The family moved south, selling Chevrolets in Miami Beach, and in 1965 David Zinn opened what is described as Florida's first Toyota dealership - a bet on an unfamiliar Japanese brand that would later look prophetic.
Warren Henry Zinn entered the business at 21 and founded his own group in 1976. Fifty years on, he serves as founder and executive chairman, and the company remains privately held rather than folded into one of the large public dealer chains. In May 2026, Northwood University named him its Outstanding Business Leader for the year - a nod to a career that now spans three generations of the same family selling cars in South Florida.
A family that opened Florida's first Toyota store in 1965 now sells hypercars from the same corner of Miami. The thread running through it is not a single brand - it is 60 years of the same name on the door. On the Zinn family legacy
The buildingA $120 million bet on the future
The clearest expression of how Warren Henry thinks is its North Miami flagship. The roughly $120 million campus at 2300 NE 151st Street is an 800,000-square-foot, seven-story structure that consolidates Land Rover North Dade, Jaguar North Dade, Koenigsegg Florida and Warren Henry Infiniti under one roof. It is reported to be the largest Jaguar Land Rover store in the nation and one of the largest automobile dealerships in the world.
The word the company uses for the building is "future-proof," and the detail that earns it is the wiring. The facility was built with 400 electric-vehicle chargers spread across multiple floors - infrastructure poured into the concrete before the EV wave fully arrived rather than retrofitted afterward. For a dealer group whose brands are all moving toward electrification on their own timelines, that is a hedge against having to tear the place open again in ten years.
The line-upOne dealer, seventeen badges
Most dealer groups pick a lane - either high-volume mainstream brands or a cluster of luxury marques. Warren Henry carries the full ladder. Its portfolio has included Toyota, Ford, Lincoln, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM at the accessible end; Jaguar, Land Rover, Infiniti and Audi in the premium middle; and Lamborghini, Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg at the top, alongside Icon and Vespa. The economics work because the tiers do different jobs: mainstream volume and the group's large service operation provide steady, recurring revenue, while the hypercar brands function as both profit and halo.
What you can do thereEverything a car needs, in one tower
For all the hypercar headlines, most of what happens inside Warren Henry is ordinary and repeatable. The group sells new and certified pre-owned vehicles, arranges financing and leasing, appraises trade-ins, and - crucially - services what it sells. Fixed operations, the industry term for service, parts and collision work, are the quiet engine of any dealer group, and Warren Henry built for it at scale: the North Miami flagship alone holds 82 air-conditioned service bays. A buyer can shop a used SUV in the morning, book a service appointment for a Range Rover in the afternoon, and order Mopar parts for a Jeep from the same organization.
The spread of locations does similar work. Beyond the North Miami headquarters, the group reaches into South Dade, West Broward, Gainesville, Naples and the Florida Keys, where it operates Keys Auto Center. That footprint lets it carry high-volume brands like Toyota, Ford and Kia in markets that want them, while concentrating the rarest inventory - Koenigsegg, Bugatti, Lamborghini - where the collector demand is densest.
The customerSelling a lifestyle, not just a car
Warren Henry's customers run the full width of South Florida - families cross-shopping a used SUV under $25,000 on one end, and ultra-high-net-worth collectors specifying a seven-figure build on the other. The company's marketing reflects the top of that range. Its chief marketing officer, Kelley Smith Spoljaric, joined in 2022 after roughly a decade as marketing director at Patek Philippe and a stint running her own boutique firm serving ultra-high-net-worth clients. Hiring from the world of fine watchmaking rather than from another dealership tells you how the group frames the buying experience.
That framing extends to partnerships. The group announced a tie-up with private-aviation company Flexjet at its North Miami headquarters - the kind of arrangement that treats a hypercar and a private jet as neighbors in the same lifestyle rather than separate purchases.
Its CMO spent a decade at Patek Philippe before selling cars. That is not a random resume - it is a statement about who the seven-story building is really for. On the luxury buying experience
The marketIndependent in an era of roll-ups
American auto retail has spent two decades consolidating into public giants - AutoNation, Penske, Lithia and others buying up independent stores. Warren Henry has stayed private and family-run. In South Florida it competes with luxury-focused groups such as Braman Motors, THE COLLECTION and Prestige Imports, as well as the national chains. Its edge is continuity: the same family has been accountable for the name since 1976, which is a harder thing to manufacture than a new showroom.
Continuity is also literal succession. Warren Henry Zinn remains executive chairman, while his son Larry Zinn serves as executive general manager - the third generation of a family that has been selling cars since the 1950s. When Northwood University honored the founder in 2026, it was Larry who accepted, calling it "a true full-circle moment." That kind of handoff is difficult to replicate inside a public company that answers to quarterly earnings calls, and it is part of what the group is selling to brands like Koenigsegg when it applies to represent them.
The awards suggest the model holds up on the operational side too. The company points to recognition including Automotive News "Best Dealership to Work For" and J.D. Power Dealer of Excellence honors, and in early 2025 eight of its stores - from Lamborghini Naples to Keys Auto Center - were named CARFAX Top-Rated Dealers for 2024. Those are customer-satisfaction and workplace measures, not sales-volume trophies, which fits a group that frames itself around experience rather than throughput.
The communityWhere the money goes back
The group is a recurring presence in South Florida charity. It has run a "Christmas in July" toy and gift drive for children at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, supported the Alonzo Mourning Charities holiday party, and backed the Aventura Marketing Council's Young Stars Showcase, which benefits the AMC Education Foundation. The efforts are local and consistent rather than headline-chasing - in keeping with a business built around staying in one place for the long term.
The timelineSixty years, three generations
For a company that could have sold to a national roll-up years ago, the more interesting fact is the one that has not changed: after 50 years and a $120 million building, the name on the door is still a family's, and still the same one.