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Into the Red With Luxury

The sticker on the window of a 2006 Range Rover Sport HSE parked inside Rosenthal Jaguar at Tysons Corner lists a few choice selling points: a child seat sensor, voice-activated controls and heated windshield washer jets -- all for an asking price of $59,350. A more comprehensive list for buyers to consider might read something like this: $1,741 for a new headlight, $600 to replace a cracked windshield -- and the instant respect of valets and your little brother's friends. Call it the unconscious cost-benefit analysis of the luxury car buyer. It's a calculus more of us find ourselves making. Luxury vehicle sales

One Stop Car Shopping Online

Car buying can be a chore regardless of whether you're buying a new or used vehicle. But now the Better Business Bureau is trying to make the whole experience a lot easier. They're teaming up with J.D. Power and Associates on their website to create a one-stop shopping center for car buying. You can use the J.D. Power information to view their ratings for a vehicle. Then you can check up on a local dealership with the BBB's ratings. Once you've decided on the kind of vehicle you want from the Power ratings, you type in your zipcode and indicate how far

Lexus requires all certified cars to include histories.

Starting Monday, May 1, Lexus Division will require sales of its certified used cars and trucks to include vehicle history reports from Carfax Inc. Executives of the luxury brand say the policy will help its dealers comply with a new California law called the Car Buyer's Bill of Rights. Other states are considering similar measures. The California law takes effect July 1. Among other things, it seeks to...

Roadside Distraction: The Trouble With RVs

Mary Lou and Herb Humphries sold their home in Massachusetts last July to travel the country full time in a new, nearly $500,000 motor home. But so far, they haven't gone much farther than the dealership lot. Since they bought the luxury Beaver Patriot Thunder, made by Monaco Coach Corp., they have faced problem after problem, including burned-out fuses, mold, misaligned doors, and a broken alternator that caused a breakdown on the highway last fall. Since buying the motor home last August, the Humphries, who live in the coach, have split most of their time between the dealership and the manufacturer's

More bends in legal road for Benz case.

The price of your typical Mercedes-Benz CL55 ran about $120,000 just five years ago. And it was the price Akron resident Tom Ulrich paid for his new ride in 2002. Today, Ulrich's car is worth about $500,000, although most of that could go to Ulrich's attorneys. For nearly five years, Ulrich has battled Mercedes-Benz in court, contending his luxury sedan is really a lemon dressed in high-gloss paint and a rich interior. This week, the...

Revolution or Evolution for Law Libraries?

We have read and been told that the old days of beautiful, comfortable, completely stocked law firm libraries are gone and are being replaced by electronic, streamlined "convenience store" special libraries where attorneys go just to look something up quickly. The conventional wisdom is that online, compact libraries are much more cost-effective for the firm. That may be true, but there is one big problem with this scenario: Attorneys and administrators don't always share the same opinion about how a law firm library is used and what types of resources make up the tools of the trade today. How does

A new car shouldn’t need repainting before it’s sold

QUESTION: About a month after I purchased a new luxury sedan, it got dinged in a parking lot, resulting in a small dent and chipped paint in the left rear quarter panel. I took the car to a body shop for repairs and learned there that the left rear door and quarter panel had been repaired previously. I contacted the dealership and was told the car had arrived with defective factory paint. The dealer had the left rear door and quarter panel repainted at a collision and paint center at a cost of $551.65. I was not told about that

Buying and Selling a Car

Mary Butler is managing editor at cars.com. She has more than a decade of automotive and personal finance experience and looks to empower auto shoppers so that they can make smart financial decisions. Very much a consumer advocate, Mary was part of the site development team that launched cars.com in June 1998. This discussion was about buying and selling a car. The transcript follows below. Editor's Note: Washingtonpost.com moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most relevant questions for guests and hosts; guests and hosts can decline to answer questions. _____________ washingtonpost.com: Good afternoon! Welcome to this

U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia case summaries

A Virginia plaintiff who is suing a Subaru dealership over a vehicle allegedly purchased in Virginia but inadequately serviced in Kensington, Md., has his consumer protection suit transferred from federal court in Virginia to federal court in Maryland. Plaintiff sues under the Virginia lemon law, the Magnuson-Moss Federal Trade Commission Act, the Virginia Uniform Commercial Code and the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. He seeks damages in the amount of the "full purchase price" of the vehicle, plus collateral charges and finance charges; incidental and consequential damages; treble damages under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act and costs and attorney's fees. It

The Orange County Register, Calif., What’s Your Problem column.

It's no fun getting a lemon for a car. Just ask Marci Shumaker. A few months after buying a Ford Explorer in early 2004, the SUV's engine would rumble and lurch forward seconds after acceleration, she said. Honoring the new-car warranty, the dealer tried to fix it. But a few weeks after getting her car back, the SUV hiccupped, again. The "hesitation and surging" of the vehicle almost caused an...

Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Velo citron

Hi Bob- I have had some bad luck with a new bicycle purchase and was wonderingif there is a type of Lemon Law with bicycles similar to those concerningthe purchase of motor vehicles? Thanks, M.B. Dear M.B., So, you got a lemon, huh? It is hard to contemplate this question (orfor that matter, life) without

U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia case summaries

Outgoing mayor reflects on 12 years on the council

In his perpetual effort to vacate the mayor’s office at 205 Claremont Ave. by the end of June, Robert J. Russo unearthed one of his most prized keepsakes: an autographed copy of “Values of the Game” by Bill Bradley. The inscription left by the athlete/politician and former Montclair resident reads: “To

More protection for Philippine car buyers seen with lemon law.

MANILA, June 7 Asia Pulse - Buyers of defective brand new vehicles may soon be able to have their car serviced up to four times with the dealers or manufacturers shouldering half the cost, or they may opt to demand a refund or replacement of their vehicle. A bicameral conference

Ron Barnes' shiny new black Chevy Blazer was barely out of the showroom when the shaking started. The front end of the $25,000, 1996 sport utility vehicle would vibrate and the steering would pull, first to the right, then to the left. And it kept getting worse. It started to be a safety thing, the 40-year-old tool-and-die maker from McKeesport recalls. The truck was drifting so badly, you couldn't take your eyes off the road. You always had to be trying to straighten it out. Barnes kept taking the SUV in for service, but the dealer couldn't find anything wrong. Barnes figures that in the first six months or so that he owned the truck, it was in the shop more than 70 days. Meanwhile, all the pulling kept wearing out the outsides of the Blazer's front tires. In less than a year, they had to be replaced four times. It was a nightmare, Barnes says. Finally the manufacturer got exasperated, too, telling Barnes he was free to keep bringing the Blazer in for a look, but Chevrolet wouldn't be springing for any more tires. Barnes was heartsick. I spent all this money for this truck and they couldn't get it fixed, he says. And now I felt I was going to be buying tires all the time. At the time, Barnes knew nothing about the state's automobile lemon law. Then he happened to catch a television report that mentioned a law firm that deals exclusively with lemon law cases. The firm eventually forced General Motors to buy back the Blazer. Barnes got rid of his lemon. But many other Pennsylvanians end up hanging on to defective cars, simply because they're unfamiliar with the 15-year-old law. People generally just don't know about the [lemon] law, period, says Glenn Gerber, a partner with Power and Gerber, the Glen Mills, Delaware County, firm that represented Barnes and has handled 75 to 100 other cases in Pittsburgh. In Pennsylvania, a vehicle is considered a lemon if a defect isn't repaired after three attempts, or if the vehicle is out of service for a total of 30 days. As long as the defect pops up for the first time within one year or 12,000...

Californians who bought a Kia car in 1997 were more likely to get stuck in a lemon-law dispute than those who purchased other makes, while Saturn had the fewest such haggles, according to a new study from consumer groups. Kia ended up with a lemon-law arbitration decision for every 40

Consumer assistance.(services and laws protecting consumers)

CONSUMERS have many legal rights backed by federal and state law. Knowing your rights will help you avoid being ripped off. Soldiers should seek free assistance from local legal-services offices or contact their state attorney general's office for help. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation offers a list of federal and

Lawyer has terrible luck with lemons

A 2006 yellow Corvette coupe wearing a LEMN LAW license plate was delivered to Megna March 9 but was in the repair shop for nine of the first 10 days he owned it. Thirty shop days in one year and he'll have another lemon on his hands, though he was

GM Stealthily Buys Back Noisy Trucks, SUVs

General Motors has been quietly buying back dozens of full-sized pickup trucks and SUVs after consumer complaints about knocking noises from the engine, consumer lawyers said. GM confirmed that it has received "a small number of complaints" about excessive engine noise after cold starts of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra

New lemon law for computers?

When Don DeNenno bought his first personal computer four years ago, he had no clue of the frustration ahead. He paid $1,200 for an up-to-date Hewlett-Packard desktop. But every time he went online, within a few minutes he was summarily disconnected. DeNenno, who raises and trains horses at a farm

Child safety seat checks scheduled for Saturday

he City of Russell Police Department (RPD), is free to the child safety seat Checkpoint from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday at Wal-Mart Super Center parking lot at East Main Street. "Automobile Accidents are the biggest killers of children," RPD Public Information Officer Joshua McMillian, one of the