Item  2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Conditions.

Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (the “Company”) issued an earnings release on October 29, 2009, announcing its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009. A copy of the earnings release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report.

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

A copy of the earnings release announcing the Company’s financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009, as identified under Item 2.02, is being furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report and is incorporated by reference herein.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

99.1    Press Release dated October 29, 2009.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC.
Date: October 29, 2009   By:  

/S/    CHARLES R. OGLESBY        

  Name:   Charles R. Oglesby
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

99.1    Press Release dated October 29, 2009.