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Author: Todd Phillips
Dealer-FX offers new digital tool
Service advisors and technicians now have a way to better manage their workflow through Dealer-FX’s new route sheet. The service tool provider said its new digital route sheet uses predictive analytics to measure and benchmark key service processes, with the …
Inspiring creativity
Axalta Coating Systems is once again hosting its Paint Outside the Can contest in which technicians use their creativity to paint and decorate an empty paint can. “Auto body paint repair requires many skills — problem solving, troubleshooting, critical thinking …
NADA quick clips
Watch our video interviews with exhibitors at the 2016 NADA Convention & Expo Brian Murphy, Vice-President, Research and Editorial at Canadian Black Book, provides his insights on the customer’s purchase experience, including the issue of transparency, as well as the …
Shop talk
Tools of the trade Technician-friendly Chief aluminum-specific tools GM has approved a group of aluminum-specific tools and equipment by Chief to repair collision damage on the new Cadillac CT6. This includes: • Mobile Dust Extractor – 80L tank (#105-CHD3001) • …
Hot new products
2016 NADA Convention & Expo show floor was packed with new fixed ops equipment and products From cabinets to wheel balancers and more, there were plenty of exciting products on the fixed ops side at the 2016 NADA Convention & …
Setting up shop
Shopify makes ecommerce easy. Here’s how the Canadian company became a top performer Online purchases are a huge business, but they can’t happen without the underlying software needed to host the virtual store. Today, many online retailers are relying on …
Manheim Edmonton celebrates grand opening
Cox Automotive optimistic about the wholesale auction business Nothing succeeds like success, as they say, and Cox Automotive Canada showed the company is confident and well positioned at Manheim Edmonton. Cox acquired full ownership of Manheim Source Edmonton after a …
Leave your desk behind
Dealertrack launches powerful new cloud-based enhanced vehicle sales and desking tool designed for desktops, mobile and tablet devices Many car buyers say they dislike the experience of being dragged to a salesperson’s desk to complete their sale and then have …
Improving EV adoption
EVs aren’t big sellers. But some manufacturers are banking EVs will be the driving force of the future. At least, that’s what Carlos Ghosn, Chair and CEO of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Chair and CEO of France’s Renault Group, …
Canadians could gain trust in autonomous vehicles
Canadians clearly see the potential. We are just not there yet While Canadians lack trust in autonomous vehicles, that could change in the next decade, found the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA). In a recent survey, CAA found nearly two-thirds of …
Eye-popping videos
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, videos are worth 100 million, said Cheryl Milani, Vice-President of Mobials Inc. Now that YouTube is the second most popular search engine, it’s critical that dealers are using video to connect to their …
