While there has been widespread speculation that Canada’s four-year run of record auto sales would come to an end in 2017, the year is not starting out that way. Quite the opposite, in fact! January’s sales of 110,945 new cars, …
It’s been apparent for several months that 2016 would be another record year for new-vehicle sales in Canada, barring some catastrophic intervention, and so it was. In spite of a slight, 2.6% decrease in December compared to the same month …
With a second strong month in a row, General Motors leap-frogged Ford to take the number-one spot in November with 28,523 sales, up an astounding 30.8% from a year ago. Ford’s sales of 24,450 vehicles were up 18.2% but that …
For the fifth month this year, new vehicle sales in Canada in October were down from the same period last year – this time by a significant amount. Sales of 154,542 new cars, trucks and utilities were 5.2% fewer than …
While September new vehicle sales in Canada were down for the third consecutive month compared to last year, the decline of a mere 0.5 per cent is far from bad news. Last September’s sales were the highest on record for …
For the second month in a row and the third in the past four, August’s new vehicle sales in Canada fell below those for the same month a year ago. It’s the first time since early 2013 that there have …
July may have been the hottest month in Canada ever in terms of weather but new-vehicle sales cooled down, falling below last year’s levels for the second time in the past three months. July sales of 173,303 new cars, trucks …
May’s modest downturn in new-vehicle sales now appears to be just a hiccup in the long-running trend of monthly year-over-year sales increases in Canada. Sales rebounded strongly in June with 191,088 new cars, trucks and utilities sold — a 7.4 …
For the first time this year, and only the second time since December 2013, new-vehicle sales in Canada were lower in May than in the same month a year earlier. Sales of 194,866 new vehicles were down just 1.6 per …
Canadian auto sales have broken so many records recently that we’ve become almost inured to the news. But April’s sales results trump anything that’s come before. For the first time ever, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants, light vehicle sales topped …
Auto sales in Canada maintained a hot pace in February, with sales of 119,201 new vehicles setting a new record for the month, surpassing the mark last set in 2008. February sales were up 9.1 per cent from year-ago levels, …
A slight hiccup in December sales, the first year-over-year decline in 32 months, caused some concern that Canada’s three year run of record sales might be coming to an end. If so, it’s not apparent in January sales, which soared …
