ABOUT US Kona Chrysler Dodge Jeep, a division of Kona Auto Center, is a locally owned, family run business that has been doing business on the Big Island since 1905. Kona Auto Center’s parent company, I. Kitagawa and Company, Limited has been in the Car Business since 1915. Kona Auto Center moved from its prior location in Capt. Cook where it has been doing business since the 1960s to its present location in the 1980s.