Canadian auto dealer senior editor Todd Phillips interviews Bob Rae, former Ontario Premier and former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. Rae discusses his upcoming participation in the Motor Vehicle Retailers of Ontario’s (MVRO) Automotive Conference & Expo (ACE), taking …
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has formally moved to repeal the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, a step welcomed by Canada’s automotive industry after more than two years of pressure to change the EV sales mandate. The federal government published proposed …
The repair-cost gap between battery electric vehicles and their internal combustion engine counterparts has fallen to a record low in Canada and the United States. Mitchell’s Q2 2026 Plugged-In: EV Collision Insights report found average repairable severity in Canada reached …
New-vehicle affordability in the United States held nearly steady in July, as income growth helped offset higher vehicle prices and elevated borrowing costs. The latest Cox Automotive/Moody’s Analytics Vehicle Affordability Index found the average new vehicle required 35.4 weeks of …
Canada has secured a brief reprieve from another round of U.S. tariffs, but the automotive industry remains at the centre of unresolved trade negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump delayed threatened 50 per cent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods …
What began as a search for a motorhome for his own auto racing activities ultimately led Québec dealer principal Samuel Laquerre to invest in LOKI Coach — a builder of highly customized luxury motorhomes on Prevost platforms. “Instead of buying …
Canadian dealerships are seeing higher fixed operations profits, with new data suggesting productivity and efficiency are playing an important role beyond increases in labour rates. The Reynolds and Reynolds Fixed Operations Golden Metrics 2026 report examines total hours sold, hours …
Crossovers gained momentum in Canada’s used-vehicle market in July, even as sales of some of the country’s highest-volume pickups and cars declined from a year earlier. New data from CarGurus shows the Nissan Rogue posted the largest year-over-year increase among …
Canadian used wholesale vehicle prices continued to soften last week, with the overall market declining 0.34 per cent for the week ending Aug. 15, according to the latest market data. The decline, dealers may note, accelerated from the previous week’s …
The global automotive cybersecurity market is projected to reach US$18.86 billion by 2033 as automakers add more connected and software-based technology to their vehicles, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets. The firm estimates the market at US$6.88 billion in 2026 and …
The U.S. electric vehicle market regained some momentum in July, Canadian dealers may note, with sales increasing from June across both the new and used markets, according to Cox Automotive’s EV Market Monitor. New EV sales reached an estimated 77,266 …
Canadian auto dealers may need to rethink how quickly they can respond to cyber attacks as artificial intelligence gives threat actors new ways to find vulnerabilities and target businesses. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned in June that frontier …
