Despite inflation continuing to loom, J.D. Power reports new-vehicle retail sales are expected to increase by the end of the month compared to September 2021 sales but the annualized sales rate remains “well below historical [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into recent reports that Tesla has added special codes in its vehicle software related to crash testing with auto safety agencies. The agency is aware of [...]
Friends and colleagues are remembering Jeff Silver as a passionate and visionary leader who for decades dedicated himself to the betterment of the collision repair industry. Silver, who became head of the Inter-Industry Conference on [...]
Hyundai and Kia have settled a class action lawsuit involving defects that caused, or could cause, engine failures and fires in several model year Santa Fe, Soul, Sportage, Sonata Hybrid, Sorento, Optima, Tucson, Elantra, Veloster, [...]
Ford Motor Co. is seeking a new trial after a jury ordered it to pay $1.7 billion in damages over a 2014 pickup truck rollover in which a Georgia couple was killed. Melvin Hill, 72, [...]
Ford and General Motors have announced factory investments, including expansions and new construction, in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana for the manufacture of both electric and internal combustion engine vehicles. Ford has broken ground BlueOval [...]
Public interest organization Consumer Watchdog (CW) has called on California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to deny Allstate’s request for a 6.9% auto insurance rate increase, and to instead pressure the carrier to return more of [...]
I-CAR will offer several classes during this year’s SEMA Show in November “to increase collision repair industry knowledge and skills.” Online registration for the following topics is now open and available through Nov. 3: Initialization and [...]
Autonomous vehicle (AV) industry leaders say full self-driving vehicles, without any human supervision, may be further in the future than originally thought. For example, General Motors and Ford want to manufacture up to 2,500 Level 4 autonomous vehicles [...]
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are working to make electric vehicles (EVs) safer by studying ways to make high-voltage batteries more resistant to damage during high-speed crashes. Through a collaboration with Hyundai, [...]
