Kia Canada has begun a program to financially assist local charities and non-profits across Canada building inclusive communities through “innovative programming encouraging movement.” Kia Communities in Motion, which was announced last December, is a four-year, $1.4 million grassroots endeavour done in conjunction …
There was a somewhat surprising result from an inaugural study just published by JD Power, showing that Canadians are less likely than our UScounterparts to think about purchasing an electric vehicle as our next auto. The study, called the J.D. …
Executives with the Trillium Automobile Dealers Association, one of its members, and the Global Automakers of Canada consider the re-election of Ontario Premier Doug Ford with a majority government last week a win for the province’s car dealers, motorists, and …
A big near-term expansion means soon Canadian car dealers will have access to UVeye, a high-speed vehicle-inspection technology, to connect to their dealership management systems (DMS), to help improve customer satisfaction and streamline service-department operations, says the company. UVeye systems …
Exactly 20 years after he entered the dealership ownership business by purchasing a store in Barrie, then expanding his holdings in Ontario, Drew Tilson has ventured into Quebec with some recent acquisitions. The 48-year-old, whose first purchase was Barrie Nissan …
TRADE X will expand its data-science team, with the goal of enhancing and expanding the reach of its end-to-end platform for global automotive trade. A global B2B cross-border automotive trading platform based in Canada, TRADE X’s press release stated that …
We Predict, a global automobile service and warranty analytics company, has been bought by JD Power, to bolster their operations in data analytics and customer intelligence. We Predict’s software is used by OEMs and suppliers as a tool to predict …
By the end of 2022, the 80-year-old Jeep brand will cease the sales of purely internal-combustion-engine vehicles in Europe, global CEO Christian Meunier revealed. Following the launch of Jeep’s plugin-hybrid Wrangler 4xE in 2020, the company has experienced increased demand …
At a recent conference, Jim Farley, the CEO of the Ford Motor Company, said that he believes his company should adopt a direct sales model, similar to Tesla’s. This is an idea that has been floated by many automakers before, …
The future for autonomous driving cars may not be limited to just roadways. TartanDrive is a massive data set with nearly 200,000 off-road interactions that may help future programmers understand physics so that vehicles can interpret terrain more intuitively. There’s …
The next generation of Volvo electric cars will get sharper infotainment interfaces from an unorthodox source. Volvo announced Wednesday that it will partner with Epic Games—the studio behind “Fortnite”—to use Epic’s Unreal Engine in upcoming cars. This will enable “unparalleled …
While most players in the automotive industry are tripping over themselves to bring electric and electrified cars to market as soon as possible, a large segment of consumers are skeptical of the forthcoming EV revolution. That’s given rise to a …
