Jim Lang, industry analyst and president of Lang Marketing, sat down with Ratchet+Wrench to further discuss his latest Lang Aftermarket iReport.

Foreign nameplate cars and light trucks increased their product sales at more than twice the annual pace of the overall market and more than 22 times the yearly growth rate for domestic nameplates between 2012 and 2017.

Foreign specialists will add more than $800 million in auto service market product volume at user-price during 2018 and 2019, the strongest annual percentage gain among the seven leading types of repair outlets in the U.S. aftermarket.