Founder · Sarasota, FL
Serge
The man on every job. The signature on every weld. The reason your car comes home looking like the day it left the factory.
A note from Serge
You called the right shop.
Your insurance company is going to push you toward the cheapest body shop on their list. I'm not on that list. There's a reason for that — and it's the same reason you ended up here.
I've spent the last 4 years restoring exotics for private collectors in the Sarasota area. Cars come to me after the bigger shops give up — Aventadors with misaligned clamshells, McLarens with carbon-tub damage the dealer wouldn't touch, R8 V10s that needed paint matched in a booth that didn't exist within a three-hour drive. I learned what factory-correct actually means by being told “close enough” and refusing it.
SP Automotive exists because every Lamborghini, every McLaren, every R8 deserves to come back exactly the way it left the factory. Most shops can't deliver that. Some don't even try.
Forensic intake.Factory-spec process.One signature — mine.
When your car comes in I walk through it with you — every panel, every gap, photographed and measured. Then I strip it down so I can see what the estimate missed: frame stress, hidden fractures, misalignment.
Paint goes on in layers, mixed to factory color codes. Reassembly is to torque-spec, every gap checked against the data.
The car doesn't leave until it's right. Warranty signed by me — not a subcontractor.
What makes us different
A factual comparison.
There are three places to take an exotic after a collision in Florida. Here is what each one actually does.
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| Capability | SP Automotive | Network shop | Dealer body shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| One owner on every car | ✓ | — | — |
| OEM parts only | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Factory paint depth | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| ADAS recalibration in-house | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Photo updates during repair | ✓ | — | — |
| Gap tolerances measured to factory data | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| No subcontractors | ✓ | — | — |
| Signature on the work | ✓ | — | — |
“Network shop” means an insurance-direct-repair facility. “Dealer body shop” means a manufacturer-affiliated collision center. Both can do good work. We take a different approach.
Tell us what happened.
We'll handle the rest.
Photos by text. Estimate by phone. Insurance by us.