Meet Remar Sutton

Remar Sutton is president and co-founder of the non-profit Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues and co-founder of the Privacy Rights Now Initiative. Both task forces work nationally with most major consumer groups to protect consumer rights.

Sutton is a well-known consumer advocate. Dateline NBC, 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.

He 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 a pro bono consultant to many national consumer organizations, including The Consumers Union, Public Citizen, and the Center for Auto Safety. He is a pro bono expert for many state attorneys general on consumer issues, and has been a faculty member of the Practicing Law Institute.

Sutton’s columns in Credit Union Magazine ran monthly for over ten years. He has been a columnist for The Washington Post for thirteen years. In 1992 he was the national spokesperson for CUNA’s automotive consumer education efforts, and was the author of its “AutoFax” manual for credit unions. His articles on consumer issues regularly appear in hundreds of credit union publications.