Sales of 110,448 new vehicles in Canada in November, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), were down 13.9% from the same month last year and 23.9% from November 2019, which was the last pre-pandemic year for comparison. As a …
New-vehicle sales in Canada fell to just 128,419 units in October, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), the lowest tally for the month since 2011. That total was down 17.7% from the same month a year ago, making it …
A chaotic disruption in new vehicle sales in Canada intensified through the third quarter of 2021, with September sales dropping to the lowest monthly SAAR (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Sales Rate) since May of 2020—about 1.55-million, based on DesRosiers Automotive Consultants …
The past 18 months have been among the toughest the auto industry has faced, and some automakers have endured them more successfully than others. Six months into 2021, the automotive industry is beginning to recover from the extended impact of …
New vehicle sales in Canada for both the second quarter and first half of 2021 have rebounded strongly from the lows of 2020. Total sales of 478,717 units in Q2 and 857,447 for H1 were up by 51.8% and 33.0% …
It is encouraging that April 2021 sales units of 162,455 new vehicles in Canada were up by 254.4% from their year-ago nadir, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). But they are not back to normal yet. Sales of just …
The ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have made analysis of new-vehicle sales in Canada during the first quarter of 2021 something of a toss-up. They can be interpreted as up or down, depending on the comparator — the chaotic …
Not surprisingly, given the multitude of confounding factors currently affecting the Canadian marketplace, new vehicle sales in February fell below year-ago levels for the month by almost 10%. DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC) estimates total Canadian sales of 112,654 new vehicles …
While Canadian auto sales bounced back strongly in the second half of 2020, to within 5% of pre-COVID figures, they’re off to a much rockier start for 2021. DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC) estimates total sales of 90,890 units for the …
After bottoming out in April, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, new-vehicle sales bounced back quickly to within 5% of previous-year figures by July and they’ve continued at or above that level, on average, since then. Until November! …
In spite of the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, October sales of 156,095 new vehicles in Canada were down just 2.1% from the same month last year, based on estimates by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). Cumulative year-to-date sales of …
After bottoming out in Q2, auto sales in Canada rebounded in the third quarter of 2020 to just 3.9% below 2019 levels. While the sales recovery showed signs of faltering in August, it bounced back strongly in September with an …
