History

Grupo DAR is a Mexican company what for more than 50 years has been established in the market as one of the most important companies for the production, commercialization and distribution of suspension and steering parts for the automotive industry.

Today, Grupo DAR is a national and international established company. We have expanded our market to include United States of America.

Finally, it is important to emphasize that during the last five decades Grupo DAR has been recognized for a personalized customer service as well as a wide range of quality automotive products, which are all backed by warranty.

With no doubt, the path that Grupo DAR has taken over the years has been very important. Some of the most significant dates in the company’s history are the following:

1966: The beginnings of Grupo DAR. The first auto parts store and service center specialized in suspension and steering opens in Mexico City.

1980: Three new stores with extensive facilities are opened in Guadalajara and México City, with the objective of widening the market coverage.

1990: An important year for the expansion and consolidation of Grupo DAR, creating the subsidiary company named Suspensión y Dirección (Suspension and Steering) in Mexico City; a company dedicated to the commercialization of wholesale auto parts, offering service all over the country.

1994: Troquelados Q, a new company that begins operations for manufacturing auto parts. It is created with the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency and to lower expensive import costs. The company’s success is based upon the importance of consuming domestic raw materials.

1995: To meet the demands of eastern Mexico City, Grupo DAR opens a new store at Iztapalapa, which also has a large service center.

1998: Grupo DAR opens SYD in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, operating as a wholesale and distribution center. This center attends the needs of Northern Mexico and solidifies Grupo DAR’s presence, which ensures genuine national coverage.

2001: A new distribution center is opened in Queretaro, becoming Grupo DAR’s central warehouse for distribution, supplying SYD Mexico City, SYD Monterrey, Central and Northwest Mexico.

2005: Grupo DAR opens a new distribution center in Guadalajara, supplying North and South Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit.

2006: Reaffirming our leadership and coinciding with the celebration of our 40yh anniversary, SYD opens a new branch in Northern Monterrey, with a new functional and modern facilities. This location specializes in addressing and expediting the service that the automotive industry currently demands while meeting the customer’s needs

2008: Grupo DAR opens a new distribution center in Puebla to serve Southwest Mexico. This enables a more focused operation for Mexico City’s distribution center which allows a better, more personalized service for customer in both areas.

With the objective of satisfying the requirements of the domestic market, Grupo DAR opens a new and modern branch in Monterrey, focusing on retail sales. Our leadership in the markets solidifies.

2010: The year of great achievements for Grupo DAR, as it makes the opening of 3 DAR Refaccionarias stores: Guadalupe in Nuevo Leon, Tlalnepantla in Mexico’s State, and Tlaquepaque in Jalisco. In the same year, SYD opens 2 more Distribution Centers: Merida and Hermosillo.

2011DAR Refaccionarias opens a store in Xochimilco, Mexico City. SYD opens a Distribution Center in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas

2012: A year of new challenges and expansion, we open simultaneously a Distribution Center in Leon, Guanajuato as well as DAR Refaccionaria’s in the same city. The work grows and diversifies, by what this same year we move strongly into Car Racing with our team “Escuderia SYD” in the NASCAR Toyota Series and American Lemans Series.