HADA - Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association

2013 First Hawaiian International Auto Show attendance increased 7.3% over last year

A crowd gathered every two hours in the lobby of the Hawaii Convention Center, March 22-24, 2013, during the First Hawaiian International Auto Show to watch a contestant select from 295 money bags which had been placed in a Maserati. The opportunity to win $100,000 was part of the $100,000 Giveaway Contest sponsored by First Hawaiian Bank and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association at the show.

Honolulu, HI--Attendance a the 2013 First Hawaiian International Auto Show increased +7.3% over last year. Auto show attendance is a good indicator of future auto sales.

Hawaii Auto Outlook, a report produced by HADA, predicts that new vehicle registrations for 2013 in Hawaii will increase by 6.5% to

47,750 new vehicles for 2013. In 2012, new vehicle registrations totaled 44,830 in Hawaii.

BACKGROUND HADA DATA:

--Total sales of all new-vehicle dealerships in Hawaii: $1.7 billion

--Dealership sales as a percentage of retail sales in the state: 12.3%

--Total number of new-vehicle dealerships in Hawaii 66

Source of HADA DATA, National Automobile Dealers Association, 2011.

The auto show’s increase in attendance foretells good things for the Hawaii economy.

Motor Trend Auto Shows, Inc. produces the First Hawaiian International Auto Show for the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association, Hawaii’s franchised new car dealers. First Hawaiian Bank is the show’s title sponsor. Motor Trend produces 22 auto shows in the U.S. and releases attendance increase/decrease percentage numbers at the completion of each show.
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Hawaii's 2013 State Teacher of the Year receives use of a KIA Optima Hybrid from Aloha KIA
Gas cards presented to 7 District Teachers of the Year by Aloha Petroleum, Ltd

(L-R) Samantha Neyland, 2013 Miss Hawaii Teen USA, Karen Kutsunai, 2013 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year, Aloha KIA owner Bill van den Hurk and Brianna Acosta, 2013 Miss Hawaii USA.

HONOLULU, HI—This year, as HADA president-elect Bill van den Hurk offers a fuel-efficient 40 mpg-highway KIA Optima Hybrid to the Hawaii State Teacher of the Year, to use for a year, and as HADA associate member Aloha Petroleum, Ltd. offers $200 free gas cards to all seven Hawaii District Teachers of the Year, the association notes that developing category of efficient gasoline cars will make a major contribution to achieving the goals of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative—which specifies that 30% of the HCEI's goal for 2030 be achieved through "efficiency" that is, in the ground personal transportation sector, the more efficient use of petroleum through higher mile per gallon vehicles.
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HADA officers and directors sworn in at the General Meeting
2012 HADA Officers
(L-R) Damien Farias,Keoni Hansen,Joe Hanley, Wayne De Luz, Dan Mackey, Brian Kitagawa, Stan Masamitsu, John Uekawa, Eric Fukunaga, Bill van den Hurk, Mike Niethammer, and Nick Cutter
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