Ramey Motors has agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed last year, which claimed the dealership violated the terms of a 2012 consent order that barred it from deceptively advertising the cost of buying or leasing cars.
The loan-servicing arm of Texas-based auto dealer Tricolor Auto Group will pay $82,777 in civil penalties as part of a settlement to address the FTC’s claims that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s Furnisher Rule.
Ahead of her appearance at the Innovate 2015 conference, the FTC official who led Operation Ruse Control has released a list of advertising sins that have put dealers on her regulatory radar.
A used-car dealership will pay more than $690,000 after a New Jersey Superior Court Judge found that it violated state consumer protection laws and regulations a total of 640 times.
In a regulatory filing this week, TrueCar said it considers a federal antitrust case against dealers to be closed. The FTC was looking into whether dealers refusing to do business with the car-shopping site back in 2011 and 2012 violated the FTC Act.
Two auto dealers in Las Vegas agreed to settle FTC charges that they used deceptive ads to promote the sale or leasing of their vehicles, including advertising heavily discounted prices that were not generally available to consumers.
Hudson Cook has announced the addition of Rebecca E. Kuehn as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office.
An Arkansas auto dealer and its owners have agreed to pay a $90,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed to display a “Buyers Guide” on used vehicles offered for sale.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved final consent orders which prohibit Jim Burke Nissan of Birmingham, Ala., and Ross Nissan of El Monte, Calif., from deceptively advertising the sale, financing and leasing of their vehicles.
A new Michigan bill that would allow ‘autocycle’ manufacturer Elio Motors to sell directly to consumers spurs the Federal Trade Commission to urge all states to lift bans on direct-to-consumer sales.
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