Transport Canada announced Thursday it has uncovered a potential dangerous defect in some Toyota RAV4 vehicles — a recall that is estimated to affect over 2.7 million RAV4s globally. Transport Canada and Toyota Canada reported in a severe frontal crash, ... [Read More]

A lower Canadian dollar has been bad for some industries, and boosted others. One division of the Canadian automotive industry that has grown substantially over the past year is used-vehicle exports to the U.S. In fact, according to DesRosiers Automotive ... [Read More]

Transport Canada’s Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau, has recently ordered Nissan Canada to immediately inform its vehicle owners of a previously recalled safety issue, marking the first time the ministerial power known as a Subsequent Notice Order has ever been ... [Read More]

Rapidly falling oil prices — and the consequent weakening of the Canadian dollar — contributed to a near 10-percent increase in auto loan delinquencies over the course of 2015. That’s according to TransUnion’s latest MarketTrends report, which showed auto-loan delinquencies ... [Read More]

TradeRev recently announced that it has raised a total of $5,306 for the Toronto-based Red Door Family Shelter. The funds were raised during a TradeRev employee dinner, where the company collected donations via silent auction. All proceeds went to the ... [Read More]

The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada, or AJAC, announced the nine best new car category honorees this past November, and the organization revealed the two final winners at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto late last week. AJAC has named ... [Read More]

Quorum Information Technologies Inc. announced this week it has successfully implemented its dealership and customer management system in its first Ford dealership in Canada. The XSELLERATOR system is available to all Ford and Lincoln dealerships in Canada, and Sunset Country ... [Read More]

Mobials, the software developer behind Reviewsii.com car dealer review website, and autoTRADER.ca, announced this week the winners of their 2016 Dealership of the Year Awards program. To be considered, dealers must have demonstrated consistently high Reviewsii ratings for consumers satisfaction, ... [Read More]

ADESA and Manheim have both released their respective used vehicle price indexes for the month of January and both reflect increases. The ADESA Index, powered by ALG, reported that wholesale prices increased, on average, by 0.6 percent compared to December ... [Read More]

A lower Canadian dollar is contributing to record values for many used vehicles — a trend which is particularly evident in the results of this year’s Canadian Black Book Best Retained Value Awards. In other words, it’s a seller’s market ... [Read More]