News broke Wednesday about a nearly $700 million deal involving Nick Saban’s Dream Motor Group purchasing a pair of Mercedes Benz locations in south Florida, which brings the number of luxury car dealerships in which Saban is an investor to nine.

Saban was asked about the deal during his weekly appearance on the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN on Thursday. And probably to no one’s surprise, Saban said he’s mostly hands-off in the car business, leaving much of the heavy-lifting to Dream Motor Group CEO Joe Agresti.

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“I have a great partner, Joe Agresti, who is in the car business,” Saban said. “So everything is in good hands all the time. We’ve got a great team of people. A lot of the things that we try to do in our business is the same kind of things that we do to have success in football.

“But I’m not involved in that. I think I’ve been in a showroom maybe one time this year. So I don’t dabble in it much. I have a lot of confidence in the people who do a great job in the business for us.”

Dream Motor Group recently completed the purchase of Mercedes Benz of Coral Gables and Mercedes Benz of Cutler Bay, which are both in the Miami area. The company now owns six Mercedes dealerships in five states — two in Florida, two in Alabama (both in the Birmingham area) and one each in Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee.

Dream also owns an Infiniti dealership in Birmingham and a Ferrari dealership in Nashville. Saban’s son, Nicholas, is part of the management team at Mercedes Benz of Birmingham.

One of McAfee’s co-hosts joked that there were 12 people in the show’s studio who would be willing to drive a Mercedes or a Ferrari.

“We can probably take care of you if you need it,” Saban replied.