1956 George Altomonte establishes first workshop on the cnr Fullers Rd & Pacific Highway Chatswood 1963 Alto joins forces with a new and unknown Japanese car company called Toyota 1968 Alto Ford opens first dealership at Gordon 1971 Alto ford opens Artarmon dealership 1984 Alto opens Alto BMW, Gordon 1985 Alto opens Pennant Hills Toyota dealership 1995 Anthony Altomonte appointed as Group Managing Director of the Alto Group 1996 Alto Land Rover opens purpose built showroom at Artarmon 1996 The state of the art Alto Parts warehouse facility is built at North Ryde 1996 Ford, Hyundai and Land Rover parts business relocates to North Ryde 1997 BMW, Suzuki, Toyota and Volvo parts business relocates to North Ryde 1999 Reynolds & Reynolds ERA system goes live 2000 Alto Group sells Alto Ford to RJV 2000 Artarmon dealership officially opened after refurbishment 2001 Alto opens Nothside Volvo, Chatswood 2001 Alto relocates BMW dealership from Gordon to Pennant Hills 2001 Crash Parts business established at North Ryde 2003 Alto opens it's purpose built Landrover dealership at Artarmon 2004 Alto opens it new state of the art BMW dealership at Pennant Hills 2004 Alto acquire Rowley Motors and renames Alto Jaguar 2005 Alto opens new showroom for Jaguar and Volvo at Artarmon 2005 Alto opens Alto Newcastle at Broadmeadow selling Jaguar, Volvo and Land Rover 2005 Alto opens it's new state of the art car preperation facility at Mt Kuring-Gai 2006 Alto Newcastle operation expanded to include Alfa Romeo, Citroen and Saab 2006 Alto opens Mitsubishi Motors dealership at Gordon and Alto Kia at Chatswood 2006 Alto opens Alto Motorcycles with Kawasaki, MV Agusta, Aprilia & Bug at Chatswood 2007 Alto Ford rejoins the Alto Group 2007 Alto sells BMW Artarmon and Pennant Hills dealerships to BMW Australia 2007 Alto acquire Scott's Audi and renames Audi Alto Artarmon 2008 Alto opens Audi dealership at Pennant Hills 2008 Alto relocates Alto Mitsubishi from Gordon to Pennant Hills 2010 Alto opens it's newly built Mitsubishi showroom at Pennant Hills 2010 Alto sells Volvo to Sutton Group 2011 Alto opens it's purpose built Audi "Terminal" showroom at Pennant Hills 2011 Alto opens Alto Skoda dealership at Pennant Hills 2012 Alto opens Northside Holden dealership at Artarmon 2012 Alto opens Alto Opel dealership at Artarmon
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