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Farley's strongest-sounding move is the Bronco contrast: a 1973 Bronco he can fix, a brand-new Bronco he says he could not, because it needs ''all sorts of specialty tools.'' The example works against him. The 2026 Bronco is a ladder-frame, gas-engine truck, which the journalist who transcribed his remark called ''one of the most primitive new cars you can buy right now.''<ref name="thedrive" /> If the conventional truck is the example of impossible complexity, the argument is in trouble before it starts. | Farley's strongest-sounding move is the Bronco contrast: a 1973 Bronco he can fix, a brand-new Bronco he says he could not, because it needs ''all sorts of specialty tools.'' The example works against him. The 2026 Bronco is a ladder-frame, gas-engine truck, which the journalist who transcribed his remark called ''one of the most primitive new cars you can buy right now.''<ref name="thedrive" /> If the conventional truck is the example of impossible complexity, the argument is in trouble before it starts. | ||
The specialty-tools point is a business decision, and the industry has already promised to undo it. In a 2014 national memorandum of understanding, automakers agreed to make available for purchase by owners and independent repair facilities all diagnostic repair tools incorporating ''the same diagnostic, repair and wireless capabilities'' that they make available to their own dealers, for Model Year 2002 vehicles and thereafter.<ref name="mou2014">{{Cite web |author=Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association |title=Right to Repair Memorandum of Understanding (as signed) |work=Alliance for Automotive Innovation |date=2014-01-15 |url=https://www.autosinnovate.org/about/advocacy/right-to-repair/2014%20R2R%20MOU%20as%20signed.pdf |access-date=2026-06-11 |quote=For Model Year 2002 motor vehicles and thereafter, all diagnostic repair tools incorporating the same diagnostic, repair and wireless capabilities that such manufacturer makes available to its dealers.}}</ref> When the same tools are available to everyone, ''someone at home like myself could never do it'' stops being a description of modern cars and becomes a description of what the manufacturer chooses to withhold. | The specialty-tools point is a business decision, and the industry has already promised to undo it. In a 2014 national memorandum of understanding, automakers agreed to make available for purchase by owners and independent repair facilities all diagnostic repair tools incorporating ''the same diagnostic, repair and wireless capabilities'' that they make available to their own dealers, for Model Year 2002 vehicles and thereafter.<ref name="mou2014">{{Cite web |author=Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association |title=Right to Repair Memorandum of Understanding (as signed) |work=Alliance for Automotive Innovation |date=2014-01-15 |url=https://www.autosinnovate.org/about/advocacy/right-to-repair/2014%20R2R%20MOU%20as%20signed.pdf |access-date=2026-06-11 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260510023503/https://www.autosinnovate.org/about/advocacy/right-to-repair/2014%20R2R%20MOU%20as%20signed.pdf |archive-date=2026-05-10 |url-status=live |quote=For Model Year 2002 motor vehicles and thereafter, all diagnostic repair tools incorporating the same diagnostic, repair and wireless capabilities that such manufacturer makes available to its dealers.}}</ref> When the same tools are available to everyone, ''someone at home like myself could never do it'' stops being a description of modern cars and becomes a description of what the manufacturer chooses to withhold. | ||
==The warranty-period carve-out and the REPAIR Act== | ==The warranty-period carve-out and the REPAIR Act== | ||
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Trump described that meeting publicly the next day, and the Detroit Free Press broke the story on June 4, 2026 under the headline ''Trump says Ford, GM want bill to restrict owners from fixing their own vehicles''.<ref name="freep-trump">{{Cite news |title=Trump says Ford, GM want bill to restrict owners from fixing their own vehicles |work=Detroit Free Press |date=2026-06-04 |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/04/trump-says-ford-gm-want-bill-to-restrict-owners-from-fixing-their-own-vehicles/90410359007/ |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> According to that reporting, he said the automakers had asked him to help restrict consumers from fixing their own vehicles. | Trump described that meeting publicly the next day, and the Detroit Free Press broke the story on June 4, 2026 under the headline ''Trump says Ford, GM want bill to restrict owners from fixing their own vehicles''.<ref name="freep-trump">{{Cite news |title=Trump says Ford, GM want bill to restrict owners from fixing their own vehicles |work=Detroit Free Press |date=2026-06-04 |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/04/trump-says-ford-gm-want-bill-to-restrict-owners-from-fixing-their-own-vehicles/90410359007/ |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> According to that reporting, he said the automakers had asked him to help restrict consumers from fixing their own vehicles. | ||
<blockquote>''They don't want people to fix their car. I said, that's strange. I'd never heard of that.''</blockquote><ref name="autoblog">{{Cite news |last=Rastogi |first=Simran |title=Trump Says GM And Ford Don't Want Owners Fixing Their Own Cars |work=Autoblog |date=2026-06-08 |url=https://www.autoblog.com/news/trump-says-gm-and-ford-dont-want-owners-fixing-their-own-cars |access-date=2026-06-11}}</ref><ref name="carscoops">{{Cite news |last=Rivers |first=Stephen |title=Trump Says Ford And GM Want A Bill To Restrict Your 'Right To Repair' Your Own Car |work=Carscoops |date=2026-06-09 |url=https://www.carscoops.com/2026/06/trump-gm-ford-right-to-repair/ |access-date=2026-06-11}}</ref> | <blockquote>''They don't want people to fix their car ... I said, that's strange. I'd never heard of that.''</blockquote><ref name="autoblog">{{Cite news |last=Rastogi |first=Simran |title=Trump Says GM And Ford Don't Want Owners Fixing Their Own Cars |work=Autoblog |date=2026-06-08 |url=https://www.autoblog.com/news/trump-says-gm-and-ford-dont-want-owners-fixing-their-own-cars |access-date=2026-06-11}}</ref><ref name="carscoops">{{Cite news |last=Rivers |first=Stephen |title=Trump Says Ford And GM Want A Bill To Restrict Your 'Right To Repair' Your Own Car |work=Carscoops |date=2026-06-09 |url=https://www.carscoops.com/2026/06/trump-gm-ford-right-to-repair/ |access-date=2026-06-11}}</ref> | ||
What the automakers brought to Washington was narrower than basic mechanical repair. Their objections centered on access to software, telematics systems, and connected-vehicle data.<ref name="autoblog" /> The industry backed a competing bill, the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026 (H.R. 7389), as an alternative to the REPAIR Act.<ref name="thestreet" /> The Alliance for Automotive Innovation pushed back on Trump's framing, saying the industry already supports repair access: | What the automakers brought to Washington was narrower than basic mechanical repair. Their objections centered on access to software, telematics systems, and connected-vehicle data.<ref name="autoblog" /> The industry backed a competing bill, the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026 (H.R. 7389), as an alternative to the REPAIR Act.<ref name="thestreet" /> The Alliance for Automotive Innovation pushed back on Trump's framing, saying the industry already supports repair access: | ||