Tablet tales
Canadian auto dealer delivers new tablet edition The role of the tablet device as a communications tool is one of the most interesting technology debates raging. How it all sorts itself out is something that auto dealers need to keep …
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Succession crisis looms for dealers
A new study finds dealers are bowing out of the industry but many are unprepared for what’s next Almost 30 per cent of Canadian auto dealers say they expect to shut it down or leave the business in the next …
Style & Substance
A tour of BMW-Mini Langley in B.C In the second installment of our new series profiling some incredible dealerships, Canadian auto dealer looks at a B.C. store that boasts, among other things, the country’s first BMW M dedicated showroom. There’s …
Rolling the retirement dice
Dealers who don’t plan ahead are gambling with their wealth Dealers by their nature are gamblers. All have risk as their middle name and go to sleep every night with millions of dollars of debt. Our business is not for …
New Car Dealers Association of BC helps dealers with succession
The New Car Dealers Association of B.C. will be hosting sessions on succession planning through 2012 following a recently issued report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and DesRosiers Automotive Consultants that showed 30 per cent of auto dealers planned to retire or leave …
NADAP agreement renewed for five-year term
Canadian Automobile Dealers Association urges dealers to support program After months of negotiation, the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA) announced that all parties agreed to support the National Automobile Dealer Arbitration Program (NADAP) for another five-year term until January 2017. …
Make customers reappear!
Internet expert offers “magic tricks” for your website I am sure you have had it happen to you before. Maybe you were aware of it or maybe you thought it was just a coincidence? I am talking about retargeting which …
Majority budget was more of the same
Harper’s ho-hum budget didn’t rattle as many cages as feared In the end it was neither the intensely political document that has characterized the Harper government’s tenure in power until now nor the Canada-redefining blueprint long feared by many opponents …
Luxury, efficiency highlight this year’s New York auto show
At this year’s New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), there was most definitely an underlying theme: larger, luxury and flagship vehicles embodying new technology designed to improve fuel economy. Here’s a look at some of the major highlights: Significant introductions …
Let’s make a deal
Getting fast online approvals takes the pain out of paperwork The faster and more efficiently deals can move through the F&I office, the happier it is for everybody: dealers, lenders, service providers — and especially customers. Mississauga, Ont.-based DealerTrack says …
Knight Automotive Group adds dealership
The Knight Automotive Group has another link in its chain with the addition of the Knight Nissan dealership in Swift Current, Sask. It joins the group’s Knight Dodge Chrysler Jeep dealership already in the city. Saskatchewan’s continued economic growth is …
Keep them in the family
Dealers can derive big benefits from their certified pre-owned vehicle programs Lexus and Mercedes-Benz were the first to offer certified pre-owned (CPO) programs back in the 1990s, but today almost every OEM has jumped on the bandwagon. While the details …
