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New Jersey’s 500 neighborhood new car and truck dealerships represent a $40.8 billion per year industry and directly employs or supports more than 70,000 good-paying, local jobs that can’t be outsourced. The New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers (NJ CAR) today released a report that highlights the significant impact...

On January 18, 2022, Governor Murphy signed the Motor Vehicle Transaction Modernization Act (“the Act”) into law. The NJ CAR-sponsored law permanently allows online sales of motor vehicles by licensed dealers, allows the use of electronic signatures on Powers of Attorney (POA), requires the NJMVC to develop the use...

NADA recently added an updated Dealer Guide to Preventing and Detecting Fraud to its suite of dealer educational products. Citing statistics indicating that a company will lose 5% of its revenues due to fraud and that the perpetrators are often the company’s own employees, the Driven guide’s authors, Dan...

The Senate Transportation Committee today advanced legislation sponsored by Senator Patrick Diegnan Jr. and Senator Gordon Johnson that would require notice of a motor vehicle safety recall upon inspection and registration of a vehicle. The bill (S2004) was released from Committee by a vote of 5-0. The bill (S2004) would...

Two NJ CAR staff members were honored at the Coalition’s May 18, 2022 Board of Trustees Meeting for milestone anniversaries supporting NJ CAR and its dealer members. Judi McGinley, NJ CAR Executive Vice President, was recognized for 35 years of...

On May 17th the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) launched a redeveloped and redesigned website at NADA.org. As part of the new platform, the Association created the NADAHeadlines.org page to serve as a comprehensive source for auto retail news and information. The page will...