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The federal consumer watchdog has levied several complaints against dealerships as recently as December 2024, winning a settlement of $20 million from a handful of dealerships accused of ...
The FTC originally proposed what became the CARS Rule in June 2022. In July 2023, a group of 17 Democratic U.S. lawmakers issued a statement asking the FTC to finalize those rules.
Consumer advocates had hoped that auto dealers would be included in pending legislation to create a new consumer watchdog agency. But a grassroots effort pushed by dealers and their leading ...
Consumer complaints against car dealerships are usually investigated by the Attorney General's office in the state where the dealership is located. In states where the DMV licenses and regulates car dealerships, the DMV may have responsibility for initially handling consumer complaints and the state AG's office becomes involved only when there ...
[31] [32] [33] Forty-eight states had laws that limit or ban manufacturers from selling vehicles directly to consumers, [34] [35] [36] and although Tesla has no independent dealerships, dealership associations in multiple states filed numerous lawsuits against Tesla, to prevent the company from selling cars. Among other states, North Carolina ...
The Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act, sometimes also referred to as Right to Repair, is a name for several related proposed bills in the United States Congress and several state legislatures which would require automobile manufacturers to provide the same information to independent repair shops as they do for dealer shops.
NADA spearheaded a grassroots campaign in 2010 to support the Campbell Amendment, which would make automobile dealers exempt from the Consumer Protection Agency. Dealership in 2009 were facing closure of its company in many different states, they even consider moving their headquarters from downtown Detroit.
Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO Elon Musk talked tonight about the company's fight to sell cars directly to its customers, and how national auto dealership groups are trying to keep them from ...