---
title: "SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0
identifier: sec:0001043509
jurisdiction: US
risk: Medium
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [US](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/us)  
**Identifier:** `sec:0001043509`  
**Risk level:** Medium  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Byrd Heath** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e58c3f9a-36bb-58a0-b5b1-8b14bd8658a3
- **DYKE JEFF** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5c474c1a-845c-58fa-abc3-0d0b201d9ee8
- **SMITH DAVID BRUTON** (10% owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/86fac31b-4d54-59d8-abf6-6e9369a835c6
- **Byrd Heath** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e58c3f9a-36bb-58a0-b5b1-8b14bd8658a3
- **DYKE JEFF** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5c474c1a-845c-58fa-abc3-0d0b201d9ee8
- **SMITH DAVID BRUTON** (10% owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/86fac31b-4d54-59d8-abf6-6e9369a835c6
- **SMITH BRYAN SCOTT** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1d50ee0d-63c6-58a0-a8eb-0fb6328afba3
- **SMITH BRYAN SCOTT** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1d50ee0d-63c6-58a0-a8eb-0fb6328afba3
- **SMITH O BRUTON** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e5134e30-dcef-5e8b-8623-b1cf0a7da3ea
- **COSPER DAVID P** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/ac033ea3-21eb-52ac-aa48-40ac51f5dd45
- **SMITH O BRUTON** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e5134e30-dcef-5e8b-8623-b1cf0a7da3ea
- **YOUNG GREG** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/0ee5efb2-5e61-5e1c-90ab-5a2b3bbe90be
- **SMITH O BRUTON** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e5134e30-dcef-5e8b-8623-b1cf0a7da3ea
- **IUPPENLATZ MARK J** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/9b276944-df35-5407-8413-ca118c5d5646
- **RACHOR JEFFREY C** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/46d10fe0-20a1-5e5f-a5cc-64ad799932b3
- **RACHOR JEFFREY C** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/46d10fe0-20a1-5e5f-a5cc-64ad799932b3
- **SMITH MARCUS G** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/242ceee1-ac5c-5e18-8809-083cc7c39238
- **KAISER KERI A** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c88d4ee3-801a-5547-a1eb-86014ff0807e
- **SMITH DAVID BRUTON** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/86fac31b-4d54-59d8-abf6-6e9369a835c6
- **SMITH BRYAN SCOTT** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1d50ee0d-63c6-58a0-a8eb-0fb6328afba3
- **SMITH MARCUS G** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/242ceee1-ac5c-5e18-8809-083cc7c39238
- **DYKE JEFF** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5c474c1a-845c-58fa-abc3-0d0b201d9ee8
- **Byrd Heath** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e58c3f9a-36bb-58a0-b5b1-8b14bd8658a3
- **BROOKS WILLIAM R** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/8f0f5e90-0faa-55bb-aa0a-22001a3b418a
- **DYKE JEFF** (officer) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5c474c1a-845c-58fa-abc3-0d0b201d9ee8
- **HODGE MICHAEL EDWARD** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/3d7aff70-a56a-57a2-8359-1b575448bcfe
- **SMITH DAVID BRUTON** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/86fac31b-4d54-59d8-abf6-6e9369a835c6
- **TAYLOR R EUGENE** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1708e99a-91eb-5380-b1f9-a7bb8b72510b
- **SMITH DAVID BRUTON** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/86fac31b-4d54-59d8-abf6-6e9369a835c6
- **BELK WILLIAM I** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb0bbb53-e39b-50b5-a69a-495a3bde459e
- **RUSNAK PAUL P.** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/61327e75-c8e1-5fc3-83cc-70f2712b7b3c
- **HARRIS JOHN W. III** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/cd877d2a-9913-591b-8694-96dc52d5a65d
- **DOOLAN VICTOR H** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/02077a6d-b4e7-5664-b676-84fc361ca2ce
- **HELLER H ROBERT** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6855b2d3-246f-5555-ab53-96916b150151
- **SONIC FINANCIAL CORP** (tenpercentowner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/4e7d7b49-40d3-5fe6-b4f8-9846af7592cf
- **BYRD BERNARD CLINTON JR** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5fde6e57-31cb-5933-9c0d-48f4ff2678b6
- **REWEY ROBERT L** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/0bf4b8dd-7b05-53d7-ac9c-d16dd94ec116
- **VORHOFF DAVID C** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c40fabf7-1af2-53f0-9356-e0a7603197a8
- **BENTON WILLIAM P** (director) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1bf7efb2-3a4e-5f71-aa80-142697c17d54

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **39-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/472eaf2b-82be-5f28-be08-d59a08ef2df0._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._