The average days to turn for used vehicle inventory listed for sale continued to decline last week and is now at a 14-day moving average of 46 days — down three days from the previous week, according to Canadian Black …
Efficiency is the new benchmark for success according to Roadster’s latest Dealer Impact Study, which was conducted by Roadster and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) in the United States and done in two “waves” to analyze the effects of …
The recovery of the Canadian automotive industry from the first wave of COVID-19 has been “volatile and inconsistent” across the industry, but retail sales as a measure of performance can help shed light on the uneven nature of it all. …
Monte Weis, former President of Weis Group, talks about his new role as President of Canadian Operations at Dealer Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions (DSMA), while Farid Ahmad, President and CEO of DSMA, discusses his next steps moving forward — always …
Canadian auto dealer Publisher Niel Hiscox and Barry Hillier talk with Alexander Poizner, cybersecurity expert. We review what cybersecurity means today and what the considerations are for dealers and OEMs, which maintain a significant amount of personal data from …
Michelle Denogean, CMO of Roadster, unpacks some of the findings of Roadster and NADA’s latest Dealer Impact Study and what those findings will mean for dealers on both sides of the border.
OpenRoad Auto Group announced the official opening of a new dealership in a state-of-the-art Hyundai facility located in the Richmond Auto Mall. The store, OpenRoad Hyundai Richmond, replaces OpenRoad’s former dealership of the same brand and which the company acquired …
Brian Fulton, the former President of Mercedes-Benz Canada, has joined the Zanchin Automotive Group to lead its Mercedes-Benz Newmarket dealership. Fulton is the Managing Partner of Mercedes-Benz Newmarket, which recently joined the Zanchin Automotive Group family. He held the role …
The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) recently announced that its NADA Show 2021, originally set to take place in New Orleans, Louisiana in January, will now be held virtually from Feb. 9 through Feb. 11 next year. The move comes …
Canadian auto dealer editor Todd Phillips interviews Todd Bourgon, Exec. Director, TADA about a video the association produced to showcase the new virtual platform for the 2021 Canadian International AutoShow. The video features Bourgon interviewing Dave McClean, Marketing Director, CIAS, …
In a world of information overload, terms like data, data science, machine learning, AI, predictive analytics and more seem to cause confusion at best, or are misunderstood entirely. We want to break down what these terms mean, and what they …
Automotive sales figures during the third quarter of the year showed the first signs of recovery following the downturn experienced earlier in the pandemic — although the recovery does not appear even among OEM brands, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants …
