High-end electronics, jewelry and apparel evidently aren’t the only popular gift choices consumers with the financial wherewithal to make such a purchase are selecting during the holiday shopping season. Perhaps piggybacking off of those OEM advertisements showcasing the shiny high-line vehicle in the driveway with the big red bow attached, Experian Automotive discovered more than […] [Read More]

Toyota recently announced executive changes across its North American operations, effective Jan. 1, including naming the first Canadian president and chief executive officer of Toyota Canada. Larry Hutchinson, vice president of sales and marketing, has been appointed to lead Toyota Canada Inc. and will be the first Canadian to assume the role. In his new […] [Read More]

Fans of piloting the Mercedes-Benz GLA in Nintendo’s “Mario Kart 8” can now continue dodging shells in another of Nintendo’s titles, “Super Mario Maker.” This free addition to “Super Mario Maker,” in the form of a special costume (Mario driving a GLA) and a custom-designed special event course in the game, is the latest in […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive’s Dealer.com announced Wednesday it has joined with Yahoo and Bing for their respective partner programs. Dealer.com today joins the new Bing Ads Elite SMB Partner Program, which the company says is for Bing business partners who have proven and trusted expertise in driving growth to both small- and medium-sized businesses via the Bing […] [Read More]

Analytics company CarStory has notched a patent for its CarStory Market Reports’ technology. CarStory parent company Vast.com Inc. has been awarded U.S. Letters Patent no. 9,104,718, titled, Systems, Methods and Devices for Measuring Similarity of and Generating Recommendations for Unique Items. The newly patented technology works to automatically compute similar alternative choices from a pool […] [Read More]

Two companies recently announced they have joined RouteOne Canada’s auto financing portal: Rifco National Auto Group and Desjardins Group. First up, in light of the partnership with Rifco National Auto Group, participating dealers who have a relationship with Rifco can now process credit applications and contracts through RouteOne. “We are excited to add the RouteOne […] [Read More]

From commercial livestock to used vehicles, auctioneer Dean Fumasi has sold it all. Now, after spending the last 30 years with the Brasher’s auction family, he has been awarded the ARI Auctioneer of Distinction award for “his dedication to ARI and the dealers in the auction lane,” becoming one of only six auctioneers to have […] [Read More]

Volkswagen has been fitting devices to diesel cars to enable them to pass emissions tests. The view of automotive engineers — a group to which I most certainly do not belong — is that when the problem is “fixed” the vehicles will run terribly. But if owners attempt to ignore the issue, their cars will […] [Read More]

Mitsubishi Motors has officially launched a new certified pre-owned program that began rolling out across the country at participating Canadian dealerships at the beginning of December. The company says the new program is designed to bring a “new level of confidence” and quality assurance to shoppers looking for a Mitsubishi car, crossover or sport utility […] [Read More]

The combination of investor money and an online platform created by what the company calls an “A team” of industry veterans who have collectively more than 110 years of experience in automotive, below-prime automotive finance, billions of dollars of securitization execution and asset performance management generated a new website — SpringboardAuto.com. On Wednesday, the site […] [Read More]