-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, MN74/vexl3vV/r31jpbjXJfHt9Ri51kr5MXRFWpcvfMtoxlmcwnX8kPMRghKF/+e stdEhsKdy6dQxx19pQ7mxA== 0000950168-02-002366.txt : 20020814 0000950168-02-002366.hdr.sgml : 20020814 20020814121448 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950168-02-002366 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20020814 ITEM INFORMATION: FILED AS OF DATE: 20020814 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001043509 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-AUTO DEALERS & GASOLINE STATIONS [5500] IRS NUMBER: 562010790 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13395 FILM NUMBER: 02733024 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5401 EAST INDEPENDENCE BLVD STREET 2: PO BOX 18747 CITY: CHARLOTTE STATE: NC ZIP: 28212 BUSINESS PHONE: 7045323354 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5401 EAST INDEPENDENCE BLVD CITY: CHARLOTTE STATE: NC ZIP: 28212 8-K 1 d8k.txt SONIC AUTOMOTIVE FORM 8-K SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 -------------- FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 14,2002 --------------- SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC. ---------------------------------------------- (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) Delaware ---------------------------------------------- (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) 1-13395 56-201079 (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer Indentification No.) 5401 E. Independence Boulevard Charlotte, North Carolina 28212 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (704) 566-2400 Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure On August 14, 2002, each of the principal executive officer, Mr. O.Bruton Smith, and the principal financial officer, Mr. Theodore M. Wright, of Sonic Automotive, Inc. submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") sworn statements pursuant to the Commission's Order No. 4-460, Order Requiring the Filing of Sworn Statements Pursuant to Section 21 (a)( 1) of the Exchange Act, in the form specified in such Order. A copy of each of these sworn statements is attached hereto as an exhibit. (c) Exhibits Exhibit No. Description ----------- ----------- 99.1 Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer dated August 13, 2002 99.2 Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer dated August 13, 2002 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this current report on Form 8-K to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC. By: /s/ Theodore M. Wright ---------------------- Theodore M. Wright Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) Dated: August 14,2002 EX-99.1 3 dex991.txt STATEMENT UNDER OATH FOR SMITH Exhibit 99.1 Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings I, O. Bruton Smith, state and attest that: (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Sonic Automotive, Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report: . no covered report contained an untrue statement of material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and . no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed). (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee. (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report": . Annual Report on Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2001 of Sonic Automotive, Inc.; . all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Sonic Automotive, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and . any amendments to any of the foregoing. /s/ O. Bruton Smith Subscribed and sworn to -------------------------- before me this 13th day of Name: O. Bruton Smith of August, 2002 Date: August 13, 2002 /s/ Donna Bowen ------------------------- Notary Public My Commission expires: __ August 12, 2003 ------------------------- EX-99.2 4 dex992.txt STATEMENT UNDER OATH FOR WRIGHT Exhibit 99.2 Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings I, Theodore M. Wright, state and attest that: (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Sonic Automotive, Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report: . no covered report contained an untrue statement of material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and . no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed). (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee. (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report": . Annual Report on Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2001 of Sonic Automotive, Inc.; . all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Sonic Automotive, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and . any amendments to any of the foregoing. /s/ Theodore M. Wright Subscribed and sworn to ---------------------- before me this 13th day of Name: Theodore M. Wright August, 2002 Date: August 13, 2002 /s/ LeAnn S. Schaper ----------------------- Notary Public My Commission expires: May 12, 2007 ----------------------- -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----