Drive Investment Group’s founder and owner, Mike Davies always had a passion for fun cars. At the age of 16, he got his first job in the automotive industry as a part-time detailer for a local Toyota dealership. Later, after attending college, his obsession for the auto industry continued as he re-entered the business and began his adult career as a sales consultant. During his tenure of obtaining years of auto retail, wholesale and finance experience, Mike quickly advanced into upper management at a young age. After years of devotion to the business, his passion ultimately lead him into the position as a Used Car Director for a large, premier Baltimore based automotive group.
Fast forward; after a dream career change into law enforcement, his passion to find, buy and drive fun cars continued. As family, friends and co-workers would consistently borrow his past automotive knowledge to buy cars, Mike decided to start his own business and obtained his dealers license. Like other cops, Mike now had a legit side hustle he loved, as it was also a much needed break from the demanding day to day police work.
In 2009, Mike founded Drive Investment Group and began brokering used cars through local car dealerships. As that did not satisfy his aspiration, Mike wanted a way to buy and sell fun cars he liked with a cool name at his speed. Needless to say a short year later, in 2010 Mike came up with a trendy d/b/a name and started Black Market Cars Pre-Owned Sales & Brokerage where the small downtown Frederick based retail dealership was born. After a few years, he quickly outgrew that space which only allotted room to display 10 vehicles for sale. In 2012, Mike and the team moved to their current location which consists of a large indoor showroom which offered ample space to display their cool pre-owned luxury, sport and import vehicles. And on occasion, Mike was known to acquire “special purchase” vehicles which included high performance police pursuit vehicles like Ford’s legendary Crown Victoria police interceptor P-71 to the Dodge Charger Hemi police pursuit vehicles.
In the years to follow, the demand for these vehicles was now stronger than ever. With Mike and his team’s sourcing strategies along with developing law enforcement and security company relationships, police vehicle sales rapidly increased and now counted for over 60% of Black Market Cars yearly sales. With that, Mike decided to separate their inventory and assertively market its pre-owned police vehicles on a separate sales platform to target local governments and the private business sector with the Police Fleet Sales Division.
In 2016, Drive Investment Group made the decision to do away with the Black Market Cars name and focus solely on the Police Fleet Branding. With that commitment and now being an authorized re-seller of government and police vehicles, Mike could now purchase and accept trade-in vehicles directly from the law enforcement jurisdiction themselves, thus avoiding the traditional brick and mortar auctions. By doing this, Mike was able to inspect and hand pick their vehicles one by one, avoiding the unknown. Once acquired, all vehicles undergo a rigorous mechanical inspection process to include a vehicle history report, next they are meticulously reconditioned and detailed, followed-up by being test driven before hitting the floor for sale. With this committed strategy, the Police Fleet Sales Division was known to offer only select, clean, serviced and professionally detailed vehicles at very competitive market prices. Today, they typically have dozens of pre-owned police and fleet vehicles in stock to choose from, many of which are 1- owner / 1- driver units which have been cared for, recently removed from service and have had all of their government preventive maintenance (P/M) completed since new interception.
With the Police Fleet brand exploding, they expanded their business model to offer a wide variety of services to include Police Vehicle Placement Rentals. Now with these services, Police Fleet Rentals Division can provide budget friendly movie props - picture cars, and fully outfitted decoy cars to provide a police like presence for residential, commercial and business. This service can enhance public safety and crowd control, while simultaneously reducing loitering, theft and nuisance crimes.
Bottom line, they recognize that all of their clients are the most important asset and 100% satisfaction is their #1 priority, and when providing exceptional service and exceeding expectations, they will earn your business for life!
BUY, SELL, RENT and NOW OPEN the Police Fleet Apparel Division hat designs and sells custom, trendy apparel which of course backs the blue!