Fueled by a $10 million Series A funding round, online sales platform Digital Motors has expanded into Canada. The company, which is based in Southern California, provides dealers and automakers a platform that facilitates a purchase process where the customer ... [Read More]

Canadians are driving less. As a result, they are buying less. The result of less driving, says Canadian Black Book, is a reduced sense of urgency when it comes to buying a new vehicle. That is according to a CBB study ... [Read More]

Various themes emerged from a January AutoTRADER.ca survey of Canadian car shoppers. But TRADER Corp. vice president of marketing Lilian Lau highlighted one of the survey’s main insights. “Great news: People are buying cars,” she said. AutoTRADER.ca asked Canadian car ... [Read More]

Cox Automotive Canada has expanded its senior management team, adding four new leaders, including longtime J.D. Power and Canadian Black book analyst Brian Murphy. Coming aboard as chief customer officer for Cox Automotive Canada is Laurent Villanueva, who was most ... [Read More]

ADESA has launched a new return guarantee available to ADESA and TradeRev customers in Canada that allows participating dealers to return eligible vehicles within 30 days for a full refund of the purchase price and associated buy fee. The new ... [Read More]

eCommerce and digital marketing company Fox Dealer now offers GM Canada dealers a live text and video chat product through General Motors Dealer Digital Solution program. The product is called Fox Chat, and instead of forcing the use of a separate app, ... [Read More]

There appeared to be a bit of auto retail challenge around shutdowns in Ontario and Quebec as 2021 gets underway, and that is impacting certified pre-owned sales. Here's a roundup of January CPO sales results shared by automakers, thus far. At Hyundai, ... [Read More]

Cox Automotive Canada’s Black Employee Network (BEN) recently celebrates its successes while reiterating more work remains to be completed during Black History Month and beyond. According to a company news release, BEN hosted more than 500 team members from Canada, ... [Read More]

Zanchin Automotive Group announced a new chief operating officer earlier this month: Neal Bodack, who joined the group in 2016 as managing partner of Mercedes-Benz Durham. Bodack, who has served on Zanchin’s senior management team since joining the company, came ... [Read More]

As J.D. Power’s director of ALG industry solutions Michelle MacDonald described residual values as the backbone of the auto leasing business in Canada, ALG announced the winners of the J.D. Power 2021 Canada ALG Residual Value Awards. The J.D. Power ... [Read More]