Auto Finance & Sales

Auto Sales

Families in the United States buy over 60 million new and used cars every year. Too many of these cars have dangerous undisclosed damage or unperformed safety recalls, or are otherwise unsafe or unreliable, and are sold through abusive tactics. NCLC works to bring transparency and fairness to car sales to enable families to get a safe and reliable car at a fair price.

Recent

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2025 Consumer Protection Federal Priorities

October 21, 2024

Digital Library: 12 Ways to Recover Even When Lemon Used Cars Are Sold “As Is”

September 16, 2024

High Level Principles Regarding Connected Cars

May 23, 2024

Broad Coalition of 104 Organizations Tell Congress to Support FTC CARS Rule

April 10, 2024

Consumer Advocates Applaud FTC for Moving Forward with CARS Rule

December 12, 2023

Ban Forced Arbitration in Autonomous Vehicle Contracts

July 24, 2023

Los Angeles Times: Why all Latino wealth is not equal

July 19, 2023

Consumer Advocates Applaud Members of Congress for Supporting FTC Auto Dealer Rule

June 22, 2023

NBC News: “The cost of owning a car keeps rising, but a price drop could be on the horizon”

April 8, 2023

Comments & Letters

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High Level Principles Regarding Connected Cars

May 23, 2024

Ban Forced Arbitration in Autonomous Vehicle Contracts

July 24, 2023

Comments to Treasury on Credits for Clean Vehicles

November 4, 2022

Comments to the FTC Addressing Auto Sale Add-ons, Price and Financing Disclosures, Yo-yo sales, and More

September 12, 2022

Group Letter to the FTC Addressing Auto Sale Add-ons, Price and Financing Disclosures, Yo-yo sales, and More

September 12, 2022

Group Letter to the Colorado Motor Vehicle Dealer Board

January 23, 2019

Group letter to the FTC petitioning enforcement action against CarMax for deceptive ads and sales practices

June 10, 2014

Group Comments to the FTC opposing its Used Car rule

March 12, 2013

Group comments to the Federal Trade Commission on the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act Review on auto warranties a and defects

October 24, 2011

Reports

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Time to Stop Racing Cars: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Buying and Using a Car

April 15, 2019

Auto Add-Ons Add Up: How Dealer Discretion Drives Excessive, Arbitrary, and Discriminatory Pricing

October 1, 2017

Issue Briefs

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2025 Consumer Protection Federal Priorities

October 21, 2024

Testimony

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Testimony During “Examining Discrimination in the Automobile Loan and Insurance Industries”

May 1, 2019

Press Releases & News

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Digital Library: 12 Ways to Recover Even When Lemon Used Cars Are Sold “As Is”

September 16, 2024

Broad Coalition of 104 Organizations Tell Congress to Support FTC CARS Rule

April 10, 2024

Consumer Advocates Applaud FTC for Moving Forward with CARS Rule

December 12, 2023

Los Angeles Times: Why all Latino wealth is not equal

July 19, 2023

Consumer Advocates Applaud Members of Congress for Supporting FTC Auto Dealer Rule

June 22, 2023

NBC News: “The cost of owning a car keeps rising, but a price drop could be on the horizon”

April 8, 2023

Op-ed in Colorado Politics: A chance to fix Colorado’s broken consumer protection laws

March 14, 2023

NPR: “Even after you think you bought a car, dealerships can ‘yo-yo’ you and take it back”

February 4, 2023

Advocates Praise FTC Action on Discrimination and Abuse at Car Dealer and Urge Further Efforts

May 28, 2020

From the NCLC Digital Library

Automobile Fraud

NCLC’s treatise on odometer tampering, lemon laundering, and concealment of salvage or other adverse history. Winning investigation and litigation techniques for obtaining punitive damages, rescission, treble damages, or $10,000 statutory damages, and attorney fees.

Read Chapter One