A small Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram store in Casa Grande, Arizona, used to sell about 30 to 50 new vehicles a month. Now it sells close to 1,000, which makes it the top-selling Stellantis dealership in America. Many of those cars ship to buyers in other states.
Same store, far bigger map
Carvana bought the Casa Grande CDJR store in February 2025. At the time, it was an ordinary small-town dealership moving a few dozen new cars a month. According to Automotive News, it is now the highest-volume Stellantis dealer in the country, with sales approaching 1,000 units a month. That’s almost three times the next-biggest Stellantis store.
The building and the franchise are the same as before. What changed is who the store can sell to.
A local dealer with a national reach
A traditional dealer sells mostly to people who live within driving distance. Carvana puts its new-car inventory online for the whole country and ships the vehicles to buyers’ driveways. That means a Jeep sitting in Arizona can end up with a buyer in Pennsylvania.
Registration data shows how far these cars are going. In June 2026 alone, Carvana’s Stellantis stores sold 1,378 new vehicles into 1,205 ZIP codes across 37 states. Carvana now owns seven Stellantis stores, and together they topped 4,300 new-vehicle registrations in a single quarter. Volume rose about 65% from March to June.
Rival dealers can see it in the registration data. In one small Pennsylvania market, the Arizona store delivered 11 new vehicles within a 50-mile radius in February and 29 in July, according to SavvyDealer data reported by The Autopian. Those are new-car sales that a local dealer would normally expect to get, and they went to a store 2,000 miles away.
Fewer salespeople, not zero staff
The store still has employees to prep, deliver and service vehicles. What it mostly skips is the usual showroom sales process with a salesperson, a back-and-forth on price and a trip to the finance office. Customers handle the purchase online.
Carvana is testing a related idea in person. This summer it opened a Stellantis location in Dallas built for shoppers who want to test-drive without dealing with a salesperson.
The catch: convenience isn’t always cheaper
Buying this way doesn’t always save money. An analysis by Catalyst IQ found some Carvana new-vehicle listings priced as much as $4,533 above local competitors. Nearly 1,000 sales a month suggests plenty of buyers don’t mind, or don’t compare.
The territory problem
For decades, a franchise came with a territory you could drive across in an hour. In July, the Casa Grande store delivered 29 new vehicles into one small Pennsylvania market. Would you buy a new car sight unseen from 2,000 miles away to skip the finance office, even if it cost more than the store down the road?
Sources
- ASOTU: Carvana Turned a 30-Car Dealership Into Stellantis’s Top Seller
- The Autopian: How Did A CDJR Store In Arizona End Up Selling So Many Cars 2,000 Miles Away?
- WardsAuto: Carvana’s Stellantis dealers compete for nationwide sales
- Carscoops: Carvana Rebuilt A Stellantis Dealership For Buyers Who Hate Salespeople
- CBT News: Carvana’s new-vehicle sales surge