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Fix Auto USA Opens Ontario, California Location
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (126+ words) Collision Week Fix Auto USA opened a new collision repair facility in Ontario, Calif. , co-owned by Selvi Rizk-Menard, a two-time Fix Auto USA Franchisee of the Year, and Erick Bickett, a co-founder of the franchise network. The center, at 4930 Vanderbilt…...
Cox Automotive Forecasts Steady June New Vehicle Sales Pace
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (116+ words) Collision Week Sales projected up year over year, but down from May. New-vehicle sales are on track to finish June at a seasonally adjusted annual rate near 16. 1 million units, little changed from May and roughly in line with the pace…...
CREF Support and Industry Partnerships Build a New York Collision Repair Pipeline
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (115+ words) Collision Week A New York City career and technical high school has turned more than a decade of Collision Repair Education Foundation support and a widening circle of industry partners into a pipeline that carries students from the classroom to…...
Collision Repair Industry Production Down in April
2+ week, 5+ day ago (110+ words) Collision Week Production was down in April both month over month and year over year. Wages for all employees reached new records as production hourly wage growth accelerated to 12. 5% from a year earlier. An analysis of the latest data released…...
Skills USA 2026 National Collision Repair, Automotive Refinish and Damage Appraisal Medalists Announced
2+ week, 6+ day ago (111+ words) The medalists at the 2026 Skills USA Championships, held June 1-5 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, have been announced. The championships brought more than 6, 800 state champions to Atlanta to compete in 115 skilled and leadership competitions during the 62nd annual Skills…...
Crash Champions Opens Fifth New Hampshire Location
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (75+ words) Collision Week Crash Champions has opened a collision repair center at 16 Rockingham Road in Windham, N. H. , its fifth location in the state and an addition to a national network the company says now exceeds 650 repair centers. "New Hampshire continues to be…...
Rhode Island Proposes Adding ADAS to Required Auto Body Technician Certifications
3+ week, 4+ day ago (111+ words) Collision Week Rhode Island regulators have proposed amending the state's Motor Vehicle Body and Salvage Vehicle Repair regulation to make Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) a required category of technician certification for licensed collision repair facilities, opening a public comment…...
Fix Auto UK, Admiral Insurance Designate Daventry Site as Co-Branded Repair Center
3+ week, 5+ day ago (123+ words) Collision Week Fix Auto UK's wholly owned Daventry collision repair center in Northamptonshire will operate as a dedicated, co-branded facility for motorists insured by Admiral, deepening a repair relationship between the franchise network and the insurer that spans nearly a…...
Fuji Spray Auto Becomes First Sponsor of CREF Art Meets Automotive Competition
3+ week, 5+ day ago (132+ words) Collision Week The Collision Repair Education Foundation has signed Fuji Spray Auto as the first sponsor of its Art Meets Automotive Competition, with the spray equipment manufacturer donating 50 professional spray guns to the program and to collision repair schools as…...
May New-Vehicle Sales Forecast to End Seven-Month Decline as Tariff Payback Lapses
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (131+ words) Collision Week First positive year-over-year comparison since September 2025 as 16. 3 million SAAR holds and monthly payments climb to $810. Total U. S. new-vehicle sales for May 2026 are projected to reach 1, 490, 900 units, a 5. 8% increase from May 2025 and the first positive year-over-year comparison since September 2025, according…...