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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently voted unanimously to continue with the state’s tough vehicle emissions standards from 2022 to 2025. Those standards are followed by several other states, including New Jersey.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced it would reopen the midterm review of the 2025...

J.D. Power’s 2017 U.S. Customers Service Index (CSI) Study found that the quality of automotive service continues to show significant improvement and is driving an increase in overall customer satisfaction. Service quality scores rose to 809 (on a 1,000-point scale) from 782 in 2015, when the study was...

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute recently completed a study that found vehicle-ownership rates per person AND per household have risen slightly (1.4 %) from 2013.The rate of ownership of cars and light trucks has steadily declined since its peak in 2006, but the study finds it...

A contingent of NJ CAR NextGen Committee members and other dealer representatives traveled to Washington, DC, on March 8-9, 2017, to meet with legislators and voice the industry’s opposition to the proposed Border Adjustment Tax (BAT). The American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) coordinated the “fly-in” for dealers...

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has recently partnered with Junior Achievement USA to provide financial education courses to both grade school and high school students through a volunteer program.The NADA Financial Literacy Program was launched in January and comes from discussions held during the Women Dealers’ Networking...

Help Tell The Industry’s Incredible Story–Deadline March 17The franchised auto retailing industry has an incredible story to tell from the jobs dealerships provide to the tax revenue they generate. It is imperative that our elected officials and the car-buying public know just how critical their neighborhood car...