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For those who are active in social media, NJ CAR will be increasing its use of social media in order to provide members, colleagues and other contacts with more ways to receive information and communicate with NJ CAR.We invite anyone with a Facebook account to “LIKE” NJ CAR...

For your information and use in business and personal planning and scheduling, listed below are the legal holidays for 2016 as set by New Jersey and federal statutes:#* Friday, January 1 New Year’s Day#* Monday, January 18 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday#* Monday, February 15 Presidents’ Day# Friday,...

According to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of automotive sales topped 18 million vehicles for the third month in a row in November, driven partially by an increased in manufacturer incentives. NADA is predicting 17.3 million new vehicle sales in 2015...

H.R. 1737 (The Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act), which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 18, 2015, has been referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.The legislation would revoke the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) 2013 auto...

The House Financial Services Committee released a report (Unsafe at Any Bureaucracy: CFPB Junk Science and Indirect Auto Lending) on November 24, 2015, that calls into question the statistical method utilized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to allege racial discrimination in auto lending. According to internal...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released its Fatal Analysis Reporting System figures for 2014, which show that traffic fatalities fell to a record low of 1.07 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. A total of 32,675 people died in motor vehicle crashes nationwide last...