| Buying a car or truck is an expensive proposition. With | | | | laws were passed to simplify the process by which a |
| new cars often costing more than $20,000 and car | | | | consumer with a habitually defective vehicle could |
| loans averaging nearly six years in duration, it only | | | | seek relief in the form of either a replacement vehicle |
| stands to reason that consumers expect those | | | | or a refund of the purchase price. Understandably, |
| vehicles to work reliably when they buy them. | | | | dealers and manufacturers are often reluctant to hand |
| Sometimes they do not, and for those cases, each of | | | | over the money or a new car, and frequently offer a |
| the fifty states has passed an auto lemon law. Those | | | | variety of excuses for failing to do so. |