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Q: What is the problem dealers face and how does it hurt consumers? A: The performance standards car manufacturers use to assess dealer’s performance and to award benefits like sales incentives that dealers and consumers rely on — often treat dealers unfairly. This causes some Marylanders to pay more for vehicles than they might in.

• To stay safe on the road and protect the value of their cars, Maryland drivers need full access to safety and defect information about their vehicles. They also need their dealers to do the repair work their cars need – on time and under warranty. • To share all they know about the cars.

A Fair Deal for MD Dealers and Drivers Here are four reforms we’re asking Maryland legislators to pass this year to improve safety and make car sales and service fairer and more transparent for all MD drivers.   1. Clearly prohibit retaliation for safety and defect disclosures: In 2016, the Assembly passed a landmark law.

Jessica Dye. “GM CEO Barra Tells Jury Company Flubbed Fatal Ignition Flaw”Automotive News. 8/15/16. Read in Full

Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk. “GM CEO Barra Tells Jury Company Flubbed Fatal Ignition Flaw”Bloomberg. 8/15/16. Read in Full

Tom Corrigan. “GM Continues to Seek Shield From Ignition-Switch Suits”The Wall Street Journal. 8/11/16. Read in Full

John Lippert and Jeff Plungis. “The car-emissions sleuth who’s costing Fiat Chrysler $5 billion”Automotive News. 9/27/16. Read in Full

Patrick Donahue. “Winterkorn more closely involved with VW’s cheating, paper says”Automotive News. 9/26/16. Read in Full

Paul Lienert and David Shepardson. “Takata failed to report 2003 airbag rupture to NHTSA”Automotive News. 9/23/16. Read in Full

Ryan Beene. “GM seeks delay in recall of 1 million vehicles with Takata airbags”Automotive News. 9/16/16. Read in Full

Alan Katz and Tom Schoenberg. “VW diesel-cheat probe widens in U.S. to include Bosch, report says”Automotive News. 9/16/16. Read in Full

Michael Wayland. “GM seeks to delay Takata air bag recall of 1M trucks”The Detroit News. 09/16/16. Read in Full

David Shepardson. “Fiat Chrysler recalling 1.9M vehicles for airbag defect linked to 3 deaths”Automotive News. 9/15/16. Read in Full

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