We sell used cars in Rockford. We also fix them.

Grote Automotive opened on Bell School Road in 2020, on the east side of Rockford, a few minutes off the I-39/90 interchange. The store is one of three in the family — the other two are in Elkhart and Fort Wayne, Indiana — but the vehicles on this lot, the people who sell them and the technicians who work on them are all here, in this building.

That matters more than it sounds. The vehicle you're looking at was inspected here before it went out front. If you need financing, you sit down with our finance team instead of a lender's phone tree. And if the car needs something after you buy it — or if you bought it somewhere else entirely — the same address has a real service department with ASE-certified technicians and price ranges published online before you book.

We're not going to tell you we're the friendliest dealership in Illinois. Every dealership says that. What we'll point at instead is specific and checkable: a free CARFAX report on every vehicle, a $377 administrative fee that's already inside the advertised price rather than added at signing, financing that works for credit files most lots won't touch, and a shop that tells you what a brake job costs without making you call first.

2,300+ people have reviewed the dealership on Google and the average sits at 4.6 stars. Not five. Read the mixed ones too — they're the useful ones.