Pub. 4 2023 Issue 1

For those of you who traveled to Dallas for this year’s National Automobile Dealers Association Convention, I hope you are reading this article from the comfort of your own home or office. It was a trek for some of our staff as flights out of Texas were delayed due to inclement weather, but we’re back […]

From franchise system protections and untaxed diagnostic labor to home solicitation rules and a study on loud exhaust systems, 2023 will go down as a history-making and successful year for Virginia dealers in the General Assembly. VADA entered 2023 with a groundbreaking bill to protect dealers and consumers against auto manufacturer-controlled sales processes. This “agency”

It came as a pleasant surprise when the headline from the Richmond Times-Dispatch landed in our inboxes and phone screens in early February: “First bill passes both General Assembly chambers.” We opened the link and discovered that, of the thousands of bills introduced in 2023, it was indeed the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association’s franchise-strengthening bill