Auto Elite custom Mercedes-Benz Sprinter conversion
Case Study

Auto Elite

‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‍‌​‌​‌‌‍‍‌​‍‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‍They didn’t need a website. They needed to run the business.

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Client
Auto Elite
Industry
Luxury Sprinter Conversions
Services
Design, Development, Marketing & Management
Location
Elkhart, Indiana
The Challenge

A brochure site was never going to keep up with one-of-a-kind, six-figure inventory that changes every week.

Out of Elkhart — the heart of the American RV industry — Auto Elite builds and sells luxury Mercedes-Benz Sprinter conversions: high-value, one-of-a-kind vehicles where every listing carries serious specs and serious photography.

They needed to manage that inventory themselves — add a van, photograph it, price it, mark it sold — without calling a developer or paying a monthly dealer-platform bill. And none of it matters if buyers can’t find them on Google.

What We Built

A custom inventory system — and the storefront it powers

Auto Elite runs on a custom inventory management system we designed from scratch on Cloudflare Workers — no WordPress, no plugins, no monthly dealer-software bill. From one password-protected dashboard the team adds, photographs, prices, and retires vehicles, with in-browser WebP optimization and one-click publish. This is the live inventory it renders — filterable by year, make, color, drivetrain and more:

autoelite.com/inventory
Auto Elite live inventory page rendered from the custom IMS
Live, owner-managed inventoryMulti-facet filtering & sortPending → Available → Sold workflow
The Results
#1
on Google across dozens of high-intent searches
60+
live vehicle pages, owner-managed
1-Click
publish to the live site

SERP management put Auto Elite at the top — not just for their name, but the broad, high-volume terms buyers actually type:

#1luxury vans#1used sprinter van for sale#1van for sale near me#1most luxurious sprinter van#1modified sprinter#115 passenger luxury van#1custom mercedes sprinter interior… and dozens more
Built withCloudflare WorkersD1KVR2WebP pipelineSendGridSEO & Google Ads
Measured Against the Field

Faster than the category’s best

We benchmarked autoelite.com against the three top-ranked sites in the category — same test location, five runs each. It wins where it counts.

Full homepage delivered
Auto Elite
0.08s
Leading competitor
0.20s
Leading competitor
0.31s
Leading competitor
1.10s
2.5×–13× faster than the field.
Time the page freezes when touched*
Auto Elite
0.3s
Leading competitor
1.9s
Leading competitor
5.2s
Leading competitor
16.2s
*Main-thread blocking — the responsiveness you feel most on a phone.

No database lookup, no page assembly, no origin round-trip — autoelite.com is served as pre-built static pages from Cloudflare’s global edge. The competitors run traditional WordPress/CMS hosting that has to build every page on request.

By far the most knowledgeable and effective digital marketing professional I’ve ever worked with. The value he has generated for our business continues to surprise us. There is no one I’d rather work with.
Andy & Zach Zarubin · Auto Elite
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