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MOTO(convert) CUSTOMER STORY No.02 · CAVENDER AUTO GROUP · TEXAS

SIX CARS SOLD. THE OLD TOOL SOLD ZERO.

How Cavender Auto Group turned its own website traffic into 6,313 trade-in leads across its stores — leads that belong to Cavender and nobody else.

6,313
TOTAL TRADE-IN LEADS
1,667
FIRM OFFERS REQUESTED
35.7%
CLICK-TO-LEAD CONVERSION
GO-LIVE OCT 30, 2025 · ALL-TIME THROUGH SEP 28, 2026
SECTION 01

WHO THEY ARE

CAVENDERAUTO GROUP
SAN ANTONIO, TX · TEXAS & OKLAHOMA

Cavender is a dealer group based in San Antonio, serving Texas and Oklahoma.

Their stores span Chevrolet, Buick GMC, Cadillac, Ford and Nissan. MOTO(convert) went live across the group on October 30, 2025.

Cavender Buick GMC NorthCavender Buick GMC WestCavender ChevroletCavender CadillacCavender Grande FordCavender Nissan of Rockwall Cavender Nissan of San Marcos
SECTION 02 · THE PROBLEM

THE PROBLEMS CAVENDER WAS DEALING WITH

No.01
Shared leads, shared customers.
Their old trade tool sent the same customer to several dealers at once. By the time Cavender called, that customer was already being hounded by six or seven other stores.
6–7DEALERS CALLING THE SAME CUSTOMER
No.02
Customers stopped answering.
At the Chevrolet store, only 40% of leads from the old tool engaged.
40%ENGAGEMENT ON OLD-TOOL LEADS
No.03
Sales teams didn't trust trade leads.
When the new leads first came in, some sales staff were overwhelmed and assumed they were the same kind of trade lead they'd seen before. Managers had to reset how their teams worked them.
No.04
Zero sold from the old tool.
In the same month the Chevrolet store sold six cars from MOTO leads, it sold none from its old trade-tool leads.
0 CARS SOLD FROM OLD-TOOL LEADS
SECTION 03 · THE PRODUCT

HOW MOTO WORKS
AT CAVENDER

01
Leads nobody else gets
Every lead comes from a customer on Cavender's own website and goes straight into Cavender's CRM. MOTO doesn't sell or share it.
1DEALER PER LEAD — THEIRS
02
Built for the phone
A slide-out on the vehicle pages gives a trade value range in a few taps, then lets the customer request a firm offer — without leaving Cavender's website.
30 secTAP TO VALUE RANGE
03
No online lowball
Customers see a range, not a take-it-or-leave-it number. Cavender's managers make the final call, so the conversation starts instead of ending.
100%CAVENDER'S BRAND ON EVERY SCREEN
04
A path into the service lane
Cavender's team met with MOTO in January 2026 to give feedback on MOTO's service-drive product while it was being built.
MOTO(drive)NOW LIVE
SECTION 04 · THE RESULTS

HERE'S WHAT CAVENDER HAS DONE WITH MOTO SO FAR.

THE FIRST MONTH
NORTH STORE
11 sold
from 141 leads
CHEVROLET
6 sold
70% of leads engaged
BEST STORE CLOSE RATE
9%
group average 6%
NISSAN OF SAN MARCOS
7%
2 sold from 30 leads

Close rates as reported by Cavender's own teams at the one-month review, December 2025.

ALL-TIME, ACROSS CAVENDER STORES
TOTAL LEADS
6,313
FIRM OFFERS
1,667
CTA CLICKS
6,892
CTA LEADS
2,460
CTA CONVERSION RATE
35.7%
BANNER + STANDALONE LEADS
3,853
FIRM-OFFER RATE26.4%
BY STORE, ALL-TIME
STORE CTA CLICKSCTA LEADSCTA CONV %TOTAL LEADSFIRM OFFERSFIRM-OFFER %
Buick GMC North1,70565638.5%1,25034827.8%
Chevrolet 1,16248141.4%1,18328924.4%
Buick GMC West1,40950335.7%1,04728327.0%
Grande Ford 91—94826628.1%
Nissan of Rockwall92224126.1%60316627.5%
Cadillac 62023237.4%59513122.0%
Nissan of San Marcos74421428.8%47813127.4%
Group site 32113241.1%2095325.4%
STRAIGHT FROM THE DEALER'S DESK

WHAT CAVENDER SAYS ABOUT MOTO(acquire)

70% ENGAGED VS 40%
"Our engagement percentage with MOTO(acquire) is at 70%… [on our old trade-tool] leads, our engagement was at 40%. We didn't sell a single [one of those] last month, and we sold six with MOTO(acquire)."
JOHN GUERRERO · CAVENDER CHEVROLET
LEADS WITH WEIGHT
"When you look at all these leads that we get, guys, these have a little more weight to them… they are weighted pretty heavy, just as well as somebody walks in with a cashier's check."
ALI SMITH · CAVENDER AUTO GROUP
"It's some of the better lead sources that I've worked with… There's a lot of engagement, so the opportunities are definitely there. So I love it."
BRIAN LEIJA · CAVENDER NISSAN OF SAN MARCOS
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