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 …
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 …
After climbing back to within 4.9% of the year-ago norm in July, Canadian auto sales in August were down about 8.9% from the same month in 2019, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). Estimated sales of 165,837 units for …
It seems to have been a long time coming, but there is definitely some good news in Canada’s new-vehicle sales figures for July. Estimated sales of 165,020 units are just 4.9% below last year’s July figures. Indeed, according to DesRosiers …
Given that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had already slashed new-vehicle sales in Canada by 20.0% in the first quarter of 2020, and the fact that April and May sales declines were dramatically worse, it’s no surprise that cumulative …
With dealerships effectively closed across much of Canada since mid-March, analysts predicted that April’s new-vehicle sales could be reduced by as much as 80%. Unfortunately, their forecasts weren’t off by much. Actual sales of just 45,833 new units in the …
The nascent hope of some stability returning to the Canadian auto market, based on the January and February results, was overwhelmed by COVID-19’s arrival in Canada in March and the unprecedented consequences that followed in its wake. With much of …
Based on estimated new-vehicle sales in Canada for the first two months of 2020, there is reason to hope that the extended sales decline, which has now lasted almost two years, may have bottomed out. At least that was the …
Last year’s decision by American automakers to officially report sales only quarterly, rather than monthly, has now become epidemic. Effective January 2020, all the major European automakers have adopted the same practice as well. DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC) has established …
It wasn’t a great year for Canadian auto sales in 2019, but it wasn’t a bad year either. Looking at the glass half-empty, 2019’s 1,914,357 total sales were down 3.6% from just a year ago and almost 125,000 short of …
