It’s difficult to see, read or listen to almost any kind of media report these days without encountering some reference to autonomous vehicles — typically, how wonderful they will be, all the problems they will solve, and who will get …
May’s modest downturn in new-vehicle sales now appears to be just a hiccup in the long-running trend of monthly year-over-year sales increases in Canada. Sales rebounded strongly in June with 191,088 new cars, trucks and utilities sold — a 7.4 …
Will BEVs take over the automotive world? Or will hybrids better satisfy buyers? Based on recent mass media coverage, much of it fuelled by the Tesla/Elon Musk hype machine, it seems a forgone conclusion that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are …
For the first time this year, and only the second time since December 2013, new-vehicle sales in Canada were lower in May than in the same month a year earlier. Sales of 194,866 new vehicles were down just 1.6 per …
Canadian auto sales have broken so many records recently that we’ve become almost inured to the news. But April’s sales results trump anything that’s come before. For the first time ever, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, light vehicle sales topped …
As a society, we’ve become reliant on technology to solve our problems. Whatever they are, there must be some technological fix for them, if not today, then tomorrow. We can be forgiven for clinging to that conviction because, to a …
As I take in what’s happening around the auto auctions these days and marvel at all the technology we have at our disposal, I often think back to simpler times before the industry became so high tech. The business is …
AUTONOMOUS CARS ARE COMING, BUT WE DON’T KNOW WHEN Chances are, your dealership personnel are already taking questions from customers about autonomous vehicles. Those who have paid any attention to recent mass media reports are probably convinced such vehicles will …
Auto sales in Canada maintained a hot pace in February, with sales of 119,201 new vehicles setting a new record for the month, surpassing the mark last set in 2008. February sales were up 9.1 per cent from year-ago levels, …
AUTOMAKERS ARE GEARING UP TO INCLUDE EVS IN THEIR LINEUPS, BUT THEY FACE MANY CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY When he was discussing the Ontario government’s recently-released Climate Change Strategy report with the media, Glen Murray, the province’s Environment Minister, made …
A slight hiccup in December sales, the first year-over-year decline in 32 months, caused some concern that Canada’s three year run of record sales might be coming to an end. If so, it’s not apparent in January sales, which soared …
It’s seemed inevitable for several months but it’s never over until it’s over. Now it’s over and it’s official: total sales of 1,898,485 new cars, trucks and utility vehicles in Canada in 2015 set a new all-time sales record — …
