Meet Remar Sutton
RealityCheck's Spokesperson

Remar Sutton is president and co-founder of the non-profit Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues. The Task Force currently collects and disseminates information on auto fraud activities for many state attorneys general, dozens of significant national consumer groups, and eight well-known plaintiff law firms. The Task Force also administers "The Reality Checklist for Vehicle Leasing," a project of twenty-three attorneys general and hundreds of consumer groups. Sutton serves without compensation as Task Force president.

Sutton is author of a book considered by many as a definitive explanation of the inner-workings of automobile dealerships, Don't Get Taken Every Time (Viking Penguin). The book was first published in 1982; a special fifteenth-anniversary edition was published in September 1997, and the fifth revised edition was published in April 2001.

Sutton is also author of Autofacts, a 421-page training manual developed for the 13,000 credit unions that belong to the Credit Union National Association. The CarFacts program teaches credit union employees how to protect their members from unethical dealership sales tactics.

Sutton's knowledge in the automotive area comes from his own experiences as a former automobile dealer, from an on-going fourteen-year investigation of dealership tactics and operational procedures, from his friends in the automobile business, from other experts he deals with, from his work with the attorneys general, and from the thousands of consumers who have written or talked with him over the years about their own dealership experiences.

Twenty-Twenty, Sixty Minutes, Ted Koppel's Nightline, CNN, ABC Primetime, Good Morning America, TODAY, CBS Morning News, Newsweek, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS television's News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and People magazine have all used Sutton as either a consultant, on-air authority, author, or subject.

In addition to his work in the automotive arena, Remar Sutton is active in other areas. Sutton has been a health and lifestyle columnist for The Washington Post for sixteen years. He is a Book-Of-The-Month Club novelist and a contributor to such national magazines as Reader's Digest and Sports Illustrated. He serves as a Special Consultant to the Paris Review literary magazine and as a board member of the New York Philomusica. Sutton is a Governor of the Trustees of the British Virgin Islands National Parks Trust, USA, and a member of the finance committee of the British Virgin Islands National Parks Trust. He is secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of The Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation.