Jake and Becca Casperson, stand out front of their Mountain West Motors location at 610 N. Main on Friday Dec. 29, 2023. They are expanding their operation by buying majority shares of West Motor in Preston
LOGAN – The retail car and truck industry in the valley is going to see some big changes in 2024.
Jake and Becca Casperson, the principal owners of Mountain West Motors located at 610 N. Main in Logan, are expanding their business. They bought majority shares in West Motor in Preston. The official change will take place January 1, 2024.
The husband-and-wife team started in the car business in 2017. Becca would work at the dealership while her husband attended Utah State University. When he got out of class he would head to the lot and go to work. After Jake finished his degree in finance, he worked at the car dealership full time.
As of January 1, 2024, they will have the majority share of West Motor Company in Preston, Hyde Park and the West Ford dealership also in Preston. They already have a Mountain West dealership in Twin Falls. The transaction could make Mountain West dealerships one of the largest car dealerships in Cache Valley.
“We are also in the wholesale car business,” Casperson said. “We sell cars to major dealers along the Wasatch Front.”
The company sells vehicles to dealerships from Rexburg to Pheonix, over to Twin Falls and everywhere in between.
West Motor, Mountain West Motor and Mountain West Wholesale will all be under the umbrella of the Mountain West Auto Group. The company will start off 2024 with five dealerships and by April they will have six dealerships total.
“This is just the beginning,” said Joey Jensen, growth manager of Mountain West Auto Group. “We are excited for the opportunities that come from the expansion.”
“Acquiring West Motors is huge. We are really excited about that purchase,” he said. “We love what West Motor has done. They have the same core values as we do.”
Jensen said they want to keep the same small-town experience and have customers feel the same intimate connection that made West Motor so successful.
“This is just the beginning. We want to keep growing as opportunities present themselves,” he said. “We will be looking for other ways to grow in Idaho and Utah.”
The LLC operates as a large family. There are friends and families involved, but they hope to operate like one big family.
New Car Dealers of Utah said selling cars has a big economic impact to the state’s economy.
There are roughly 140 new car dealerships in the Beehive State that create 25,529 jobs with annual payroll of $667,000. The total new car sales generate $8.3 billion and generates $563,000 in Utah sales tax.