Dealers discuss key challenges with supply shortages and their ripple effects, while also exploring how they are adapting to the situation. In 2021, a dealer in Quebec City summed up the new and used vehicle inventory shortage in two words: …
Shifting from hard-copy papers to digital files may not seem revolutionary, but one company in Ontario is striving for the dream—to streamline the entire process so dealers can go paperless. Back in 2018, a sales manager at a luxury dealership …
Canadian-based Kimoby, a cloud-based Business Instant Messaging solution, acquired end-to-end connected vehicle platform ACE Marktplace. The platform was created by Policaro Group, a family-owned dealership operation in Southern Ontario, and is powered by telematics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. This …
Several years ago, Bradley W. Lane, Associate Professor in the Urban Planning Program of Public Affairs & Administration at The University of Kansas, wrote an article reviewing a piece of research around what makes vehicle owners ditch the EVs they …
With all the promises, goals and desires pitched by federal and provincial governments, OEMs, and other industry players around electric vehicles and EV adoption, there remains a number of hurdles to overcome. That point is obvious when reviewing Deloitte’s 2022 …
Autozen, which allows consumers to conveniently sell their used vehicles to dealers through a managed marketplace, officially launched its pilot service in Toronto, Ont. in January and plans to launch publicly this month. It is big news for the company, …
The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) in January launched A Dealer’s Guide to Data & Data Sharing—an extension of its Driving the Road Ahead report, focusing on the importance of data for dealers and its impact on the industry. “Driving …
Kijiji Autos released a new report on green transport cities, listing Vancouver as the top Canadian city with the most sustainable transport. The densely populated city aims to be fully powered by clean energy by 2050. Currently, it embraces initiatives …
A new update from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC) reveals that Canadian light vehicle production hit record lows in 2021, but they remain “cautiously optimistic” due to some hopeful examples from OEMs. “The Canadian light vehicle assembly sector has been through …
After two weeks of declines and months of growth for used vehicle wholesale prices, the market saw prices flatten for the week ending on January 25, based on Canadian Black Book’s latest update. “The Canadian used wholesale market saw prices …
The Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) has been pushing for fair tax treatment on the automobile deductions front and, in a win to dealers across the country, received some good news in December 2021 from the Department of Finance Canada. …
Looking back at 2021, the impact of the pandemic on light vehicle sales in each province was unevenly spread, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). “The semiconductor shortage ensured that provincial markets were not governed solely by local economic performance,” …
