The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade association representing US automakers and other manufacturers, announced on July 11, 2023 that it had entered into an agreement with trade associations representing independent repair facilities affirming the continued vitality of a 2014 agreement on automotive right-to- repair issues and declaring that “independent repair facilities shall have access to the same diagnostic and repair information that auto manufacturers make available to authorized dealer networks.”
In the original 2014 Memorandum of Understanding, automakers agreed to make repair tools and information available for vehicles available to the aftermarket on fair and reasonable terms, and committed…
KC-area auto repair shop shares tips to get your car ready for holiday travel
MISSION, Kan. — It’s almost time for the busy holiday travel to start, and professionals in Kansas City want to make sure you’re prepared.
More than 115 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more from home over the last 10 days of the year for the holidays, according to AAA.
Johnson County Automotive Repair in Mission, Kansas, is encouraging regular inspections to your car year-round, but well in advance of your holiday travel.
“With cold weather, one of the big things we look at with a car is maintenance items,” Johnson County Automotive owner Alan Heriford said.…
A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Takes a Wild Turn
The federal government’s stance in Massachusetts appears to conflict with its general views on the right to repair. In 2021, President Joe Biden ordered the Federal Trade Commission to create new rules making it harder for manufacturers to limit who can fix the devices they create.
Amid competing letters, statements, and legal paperwork there’s a fundamental question, one that Massachusetts tried to find the answer to: Who owns the resources of data created by today’s increasingly software- and computer-chip-enabled vehicles?
For decades, those advocating for the right to repair—that is, the idea that once you buy a product, you get…
Buying a car has never been more expensive, assuming you can even find one — here’s why
Just as it did for nearly every facet of the global economy, the pandemic plunged Canada’s new car market into upheaval, throwing supply and demand completely out of whack.
Factory shutdowns due to COVID-19 made for widespread shortages of parts, filtering down to a historic lack of finished vehicles for sale on dealer lots. And on the demand side, consumers were far less eager to buy what was available, as the economic uncertainty had them holding on to their existing cars much longer than usual.
Three years later, most of the weak links in the supply chain have been fixed,…
Jaguar Land Rover pushes back BEV rollout, focuses on plug-ins
Mardell indicated that the more mainstream EMA cars would come 12 months after the two electric Range Rovers, with the Jaguar models following after that.
Mardell said JLR would be prepared to delay the launch of the Range Rover Electric to ensure the EV was perfect. “If it takes a few more months to get to that point, then the team will be allowed it,” he said.
JLR said 16,000 people had joined the waiting list for Range Rover Electric. The company has not disclosed prices, although JLR Chief Financial Officer Richard Molyneux said on the earnings call that the…
Daycare center left damaged after being struck by stolen car on Chicago’s South Side
Car crashes into South Side daycare
Car crashes into South Side daycare
00:49CHICAGO (CBS) – A car slammed into a daycare center on the city’s South Side overnight.
The crash left damage outside of the daycare in Calumet Heights along Stony Island near 88th Street.
Tamera Fair, the CEO of Premier Child Care Centers, said she found out about the crash around 10:30 pm Saturday.
She says police told her that the car was stolen.
“Whoever crashed it fled the scene. The keys were in the car, no broken windows, the steering column was not tampered with. So, we…
GM scales back electric vehicle and self-driving car plans as new labor deals will cost it $10B
General Motors says it is pumping the brakes a little on its plans for electric vehicles and self-driving cars as new labor deals signed with unions in the US and Canada will cost it almost $9.3 billion US.
Despite those costs, the automaker says it plans to buy back up to $10 billion US of its own shares, while also increasing its dividend by 33 per cent.
The buyback was the equivalent at Tuesday’s closing price to nearly a quarter of GM’s common stock. Its shares were down about 14 per cent this year before rising 10 per cent to…
Carvana Starts the Slow Climb Back Up to Recovery
From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.
Ernest “Ernie” Garcia III had a dream. Armed with a degree from Stanford and a $100 million investment courtesy of his father, Ernest Garcia II—the billionaire behind DriveTime, a major used-car dealership chain—Garcia III was uniquely well situated to give his audacious vision a shot. In 2012, he cofounded Carvana, an e-commerce platform for selling used cars. He hoped one day it would become the Amazon of secondhand-car sales, an online operation where you might buy a pre-owned vehicle with no in-store visit, hard sell, or haggling and have the new-to-you…