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New cars and light trucks are being kept much longer by their original buyers than ever before.

With the price of crude consistently increasing, so have gas prices because crude oil accounts for more than 50% of the price at the pump.

Leaders of the Automotive Service Association (ASA) held a virtual briefing to update media outlets and its members on several of the issues the organization plans to track and provide guidance on in the year ahead.

Collision repairers continue to see smaller auto insurers outpacing the 10 largest insurers in terms of working to ensure quality repairs and customer service, according to the findings of the 2021 CRASH Network “Insurer Report Card.”

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued recalls for Feb. 4-11, including a Cadillac recall involving 2,641,272 units and a Mercedes-Benz recall involving 24,550 units.

RateGenius, a fintech company with a proprietary consumer-lending platform, has released its annual study revealing the current state of the auto refinance market for 2021, finding that savings are at a historical high and interest rates are the lowest they’ve been in years, with the current state of the economy driving demand in 2020 leading into 2021.

The Tekmetric Index (TM-500) collects data from 500 auto repair shops, a sample of Tekmetric users across the U.S. TM-500 monitors economical trends to show how the industry is performing as a whole. Below are last week’s trends in car counts and AROs by region.

The IRS is offering resources to struggling small employers and self-employed individuals with retirement plans.

The number of light vehicles per service bay in the U.S. has increased steadily over the past 10 years. However, foreign nameplate cars and light trucks per bay have climbed even faster.