Embracing Transparency: How Donohoo Auto and Donohoo Chevrolet Align with the FTC’s CARS Rule
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) CARS (Combating Auto Retail Scams) Rule marks a pivotal moment in the automotive industry, fostering consumer protection and dealer transparency. At Donohoo Auto and Donohoo Chevrolet, we’ve always prioritized transparency and honesty, practices that perfectly align with the principles of the CARS Rule. Let’s explore the rule and how our approach at Donohoo Auto and Donohoo Chevrolet upholds these standards:
FTC’s CARS Rule: An Overview
- Prohibition of Misrepresentations in Material Information:
- Our Approach: We have always ensured honesty in presenting information about our vehicles. Misrepresentation of price, financing, or add-ons goes against our core values.
- Mandatory Clear Disclosure of the Offering Price:
- Our Approach: Transparency in pricing has been a cornerstone of our business. We provide the actual price of the car upfront, avoiding hidden costs and ensuring clarity for our customers.
- Illegality of Charging for Non-Beneficial Add-Ons:
- Our Approach: At Donohoo Auto and Donohoo Chevrolet, we do not charge for unnecessary add-ons. Our commitment is to the benefit and satisfaction of our customers, not to extraneous charges.
- Requirement of Express Informed Consent:
- Our Approach: We have always believed in informed consent. Every charge or offer is thoroughly explained, ensuring our customers are making well-informed decisions.
Black Widow Offroad Upfit: Your Ultimate FAQ Guide
If you’re in the market for a lifted truck that’s as powerful as it is stylish, look no further than the Black Widow Offroad Upfit. Available at Donohoo Chevrolet, these trucks are turning heads with their unmatched performance and rugged design. To help you make an informed decision, we’ve compiled a comprehensive FAQ guide addressing all your questions about Black Widow Offroad Upfit.
Donohoo Chevrolet stands proud as one of the leading dealers of Chevrolet 3500 cab chassis units nationwide. We boast a robust network of professional upfitters, always ensuring we stock the best upfit brands. Whether you’re seeking a pre-scheduled or upfitted vehicle or have specific bed requirements, we have you covered. One of our bestsellers is the CM Truck Bed RD Steel Flat Deck Body. Dive in as we explore the features and benefits of this remarkable product. Additionally, you’ll find links at the end of this article for a peek into our cab chassis inventory, including those scheduled for production.
The automotive world is undergoing a significant transformation, and automakers find themselves at a crucial juncture. The initial rush to embrace electric vehicles (EVs), driven largely by passionate early adopters, is now reaching a pivotal point. As the focus shifts towards the “early majority”—a more price-sensitive group—the challenges are becoming more pronounced.
Axios highlights that these mainstream consumers are not easily swayed. Their hesitations arise from concerns about the higher costs of EVs compared to traditional gasoline vehicles, uncertainties surrounding the charging infrastructure, and a belief that more advanced models are on the horizon. The overarching sentiment seems to be: why invest in today’s EVs when tomorrow’s might be superior?
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Meet XP, Royal Truck’s new heavy-duty service body, a brute built to stand up to the challenges of any job and the harshness of any weather. XP, an abbreviation for Xtreme Protection, is meticulously crafted not just to serve your team but to shield your equipment and deliver unmatched performance even on the roughest terrains.
The All-Weather Warrior: XP Service Body
XP Service Body is a perfect blend of design and durability. It is uniquely designed to avoid corrosion-causing traps that can retain water, salt, or chemicals. The body and its accessories fit impeccably by design, offering an extreme level of protection to your equipment. The Royal Truck Body XP Service Body is more than just a work vehicle. It’s an all-weather, all-terrain warrior.
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In 2019, Chevrolet rolled out its revamped Silverado 2500 and 3500 HD models, offering power and performance upgrades alongside a daring front-end design that raised quite a few eyebrows. With the mid-cycle refresh of the Silverado HD, Chevrolet stepped back from this audacious style, instead opting for a more subtle approach that mirrors the aesthetic of its light-duty models. Alongside these design changes, the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD models are packed with many interior enhancements where they were much needed.
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A Study in Alabama Chevrolet Dealership Doc Fees – How They Happen to Match $485 State Average
You may be an infrequent shopper of vehicles, and many dealerships count on that. One of the greatest deceptive advertising practices not regulated by the state of Alabama, and not regulated by many states in the USA, is the separately charged dealer “doc fee”. It is known by other names such as administrative fee, administrative charge, documentation fee, and others. Take note that if the advertised price is $40,740 and the doc fee is $499, your REAL price before taxes is $41,239. If another dealer advertises $41,000 with no doc fee, that price is better than the first dealer even if the first dealer’s advertised price looks lower online.
We did a study of 47 Chevrolet dealerships within our zone, and we researched dealer websites and Chevrolet.com inventory listings for a record from the dealership of a doc fee. When we found it, we captured it. We also noted all dealerships whose stated pricing online explicitly says it does not include doc fees but doesn’t share the fee, and we put those dealerships into the “Charged but not disclosed” category. We found a couple of dealerships that did not state doc fees were charged separately, did not state what the doc fee is, and did not state they did not charge a doc fee. We put them into the unknown category.
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Some of these topics are covered in the FTC’s initiative to level the playing field for honest dealers. We are big fans of most of these ideas. We wrote a blog about it here. But for a bit of a deeper dive, here are some specific ways dealers are hammering customers yet often not being clear about it to customers in advertising.
This post is a bit long, so here is your quick summary. More details are covered on each topic below.
- Requiring trades and financing – price is higher or the dealer won’t sell you the vehicle without financing with the dealer or providing a trade
- Addendums with mandatory accessories – adding nitrogen in tires, door edge guards, and other items to the vehicle at highly inflated prices and not including them in the advertised price on the website
- Dealer “doc” fees not disclosed or included in the advertised price – these extra “fees” are dealer-created, not government-mandated, and cover dealer expenses. This prevents customers from looking at dealer prices apples to apples.
- Destination Charges (Freight) charged separately – dealers show a great price online but don’t include a separately charged destination charge that is part of the MSRP. Instead they add it back on top of the advertised price.
- Undisclosed market adjustments – dealers advertise an MSRP on the website but put into the fine print that a market adjustment may be required. This is sometimes thousands of dollars on top of the MSRP because the supply is limited for the vehicle.
CM Truck Bed – CT Contractor Body
As one of the nation’s top sellers of Chevrolet 3500 cab chassis units, Donohoo Chevrolet has a strong network of upfitters that work to keep us supplied with top brands of upfit applications. You can either work with us on a vehicle already scheduled or upfitted with a particular bed. Or you can request we obtain the bed of your choice to match one of our incoming or on-the-ground cab chassis units. An example of a popular bed we sell is the CM Truck Bed CT Contractor Body. Below we talk about what makes this product great, and at the very end you can click on links to take you to our inventory of cab chassis units, or our on-order inventory scheduled to be built.
Introducing the CT Contractor Body – your work-ready tool for any job site! When you need to transport your hard work to the job site, this body will help you do it with maximum efficiency and hard work. The CT Contractor Body features a best-in-class 3,000 lb. material rack and 18″ fold-down aluminum stake side rails for maximized cargo and access.
Let’s take a closer look at the specs and features of the CT Contractor Body. The body comes in lengths of 9’4″ and 11’4″ and is built with a steel tube headache rack and 1/8″ treadplate deck. The frame rails are made of 4″ structural channel steel and the crossmembers are 3″ structural 3/16″ channel crossmembers. The rear skirt is a solid one-piece with a rear step, and the body features a 24K lb. 2 1/2″ B&W Hitch with Receiver Tube. The aluminum fold-down side rails and angled fuel fill are additional features that make the CT Contractor Body stand out.
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