Building a Legacy

Friendly Chevrolet is one of the region’s best dealerships, serving the Minneapolis community in Minnesota. We have consistently been one of the top volume dealerships in the state of Minnesota for the past 25 years. Our team enjoys training programs, a fantastic culture and opportunities for advancement, which are company-wide focuses to help you grow both personally and professionally. We’re interested in helping your career and adding to your resume because we know that happy employees lead to happier customers!

If you’d like to join us, please take a look at our open positions and apply today!

Partners with Our Community

At Friendly Chevrolet we are more than a business, we strive to be good neighbors and partners in our community. Therefore, we support various local organizations in order to give back and help better our community. We are especially proud of our support of the American Cancer Society’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Program”. Friendly Chevrolet has been the largest contributor in the state of Minnesota, for the last five years! We’re dedicated to helping make it so that no one — from survivors, to those currently undergoing treatment, to the more than 250,000 people who will be diagnosed this year — has to face breast cancer alone.

Our History

On a mission to do things differently than other automotive dealers, we at Friendly Chevrolet focus our efforts on providing unmatched quality automotive products and service and implemented the ‘Best Price Philosophy’. We strive to provide a more relaxed, honest, and enjoyable car-buying experience. We aim to exceed our customers’ and employees’ expectations, maintaining their loyalty for a lifetime. We recognize the greatest resource we have is our employees and we never take that for granted. We strive to fill open positions within our ranks first, creating career paths for many of our employees regardless of where they start in our company.

We are very proud of our culture which largely comes from being a part of the Rydell Auto Group. The Rydell Auto Group was founded in 1954 and has grown into a group of 85 stores in 17 states! Our Founder, Leonard Rydell, had many strongly held business and personal philosophies that served him well. These philosophies, known as “Leonardism’s”, help guide us through our daily business and personal decisions. Some of our favorite “Leonardism’s” are…

“Never take advantage of a customer, even if you can.”

“Put yourself in a position to take care of as many people as possible.”

“Seek excellence, and the rest will follow.”

Rydell's Vision & Mission

The Rydell philosophy is based on five key areas that we believe are critical to business success:

Customer Enthusiasm

Employee Satisfaction

Financial Performance

Market Effectiveness

Ongoing Improvement

Our philosophy holds that each area is of equal importance and we continually strive to reach a level of excellence in each area. However, in any planning or decision-making process, or in any situation of seeming conflict or contradiction among the five critical areas, Customer Enthusiasm will always carry the most weight.

Rydell’s Philosophy

The Rydell philosophy is based on five key areas that we believe are critical to business success:

Customer Enthusiasm

Employee Satisfaction

Financial Performance

Market Effectiveness

Ongoing Improvement

Our philosophy holds that each area is of equal importance and we continually strive to reach a level of excellence in each area. However, in any planning or decision-making process, or in any situation of seeming conflict or contradiction among the five critical areas, Customer Enthusiasm will always carry the most weight.

Career Paths

Friendly Chevrolet is a one of a kind experience where individuals can learn the ins and outs of the auto industry and work there way up to becoming a general manager / dealer.

Rob Owens joined Friendly Chevrolet in 2000. He worked as a sales associate, finance manager, used car manager, general sales manager for a total of 19 years. Today Rob is the Executive General Manager of another Rydell Location, Ozark Chevrolet.

Brian Taylor joined Friendly Chevrolet in 2001. He worked as a sales associate, finance manager, used car manager, general sales manager for a total of 13 years. He then moved to Mason City Motor Company and was the Executive Manager there for 3 years. Today Brian is the Executive General Manager of another Rydell Location, Mankato Motors.

Friendly Chevrolet is passionate about developing and growing individuals. If you want to create a story like the individuals listed above, apply today to join our team!