Three Years Running: Starling Buick GMC Stuart Named GM Dealer of the Year for 2025

Some wins take your breath away. Others feel earned, expected, and still somehow unreal. For the team at Starling Buick GMC Stuart, hearing the words “Dealer of the Year” for the third consecutive time — 2023, 2024, and now 2025 — fell somewhere right in between. A milestone that doesn’t just happen. A result of showing up every single day, for every single customer, on every single corner of the Treasure Coast.

General Motors executives traveled out to Stuart, Florida to personally mark the occasion, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the full dealership team to celebrate a three-peat that almost no dealership in the country will ever experience.

What GM’s Dealer of the Year Award Really Means

General Motors doesn’t hand out the Dealer of the Year recognition lightly. The honor is reserved for dealerships that consistently outperform across the metrics that matter most: sales excellence, customer satisfaction, service department performance, operational standards, and community engagement. Earning it once is a serious accomplishment. Earning it three years in a row puts Starling Buick GMC Stuart in a category most dealerships only dream about.

This isn’t about a single quarter, a hot month, or a lucky streak. It’s about sustained performance — and the kind of dealership culture that keeps a team pushing forward long after the last customer has driven off the lot. Three years of Dealer of the Year isn’t a moment. It’s a standard.

GM Executives Travel to Stuart to Celebrate With the Team

To mark the milestone, General Motors executives came to Stuart to personally recognize the dealership and the people behind the three-peat. Standing together with the full Starling team — sales, service, parts, finance, reception, detail, lot staff, and leadership — the celebration carried a weight that went beyond a plaque on the wall.

The sentiment echoed across the room: an award is never really about a building or a brand logo. It’s about the people who fill the seats, answer the phones, turn the wrenches, and treat every customer like family. That’s the Starling standard in Stuart.

Chef Ramoncito Brings Miami Flavor to the Treasure Coast

When it came time to thank the team, the dealership went big. Starling Buick GMC Stuart brought in Chef Ramoncito, one of Miami’s most recognized culinary personalities, to cook for the entire crew. Known across South Florida for his showmanship, bold Latin flavors, and unmistakable energy, Chef Ramoncito turned the dealership lot into something that felt more like a family festival than a corporate event.

If you’ve spent any time in the Miami food scene, you already know the name. And on this particular afternoon, the Treasure Coast got a front-row seat.

A Full Paella and a Whole Roasted Pig That Drew the Crowd

The menu was every bit as impressive as the award. A massive paella loaded with fresh seafood simmered in the open air, releasing the kind of aroma that stops conversations mid-sentence. A whole roasted pig — the kind you gather around the moment it comes off the fire — anchored the spread. People crowded in as soon as it was ready.

Nobody held back. Plates stacked high. Seconds, thirds, and more than a few laughs over fourths. It was real food, cooked with love, right there on the lot in Stuart. For a team that rarely slows down, the moment landed exactly the way it was meant to.

Leadership Speaks to the People Who Make It Happen

Before the afternoon wound down, Starling leadership took a moment to address the team directly. The message was simple, and it deserved to be said out loud.

Awards decorate a wall. People build a dealership. And at Starling Buick GMC Stuart, the difference between a good year and a Dealer of the Year year has always come down to the team — their consistency, their care, and their willingness to treat every customer like the most important one of the day.

The Surprise Nobody Saw Coming: Chef Ramoncito Drives Home in a Brand New GMC Yukon

What nobody saw coming happened as the event was winding down. As Chef Ramoncito was talking cars with the Starling team, he mentioned — almost in passing — that he used to drive a GMC Yukon and loved every single mile of it.

The Starling team couldn’t let that story end any other way. Right there, on the spot, they put Chef Ramoncito behind the wheel of a brand-new Yukon and sent him home driving it. One minute he’s plating paella for the crew. The next, he’s a Yukon owner again.

It was the kind of moment that captures what Starling Buick GMC Stuart is really about — generosity, gratitude, and the belief that the right vehicle finds the right person at the right time. Welcome back to the Yukon family, Chef.

Good People. Good Food. Good Energy.

Three years of GM Dealer of the Year recognition doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when a dealership treats its team like family, its customers like neighbors, and its community like home. That’s the formula in Stuart — and it hasn’t changed in three years.

It also isn’t slowing down. As leadership put it the afternoon of the celebration: three years running, and we’re just getting started.

Visit the Three-Time Dealer of the Year in Stuart, FL

Whether you’re shopping for your next GMC Yukon, Sierra 1500, Terrain, Acadia, Buick Encore GX, Envista, or Envision — or exploring certified pre-owned options — the award-winning team at Starling Buick GMC Stuart is ready to show you exactly what three-time Dealer of the Year service looks like.

Stop by the dealership on US-1 in Stuart, schedule a test drive online, or connect with the service department for maintenance and repairs. Experience what keeps Treasure Coast drivers — and their families, and now even Miami’s top chefs — coming back year after year.