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Jan. 29, 2021 | Stellantis is the latest merger for FCA dealers, so what’s different this time?
Jim McManes, founder of McManes Automotive Group, owns 10 FCA branded dealerships in Western Canada. He’s lived through the Daimler and Fiat mergers …
5 years, 8 months ago
Jan. 22, 2021 | GM Canada’s president on $1B in EV investment, Canadian innovation and BrightDrop
General Motors Canada President Scott Bell explains why the automaker moved contract talks with Unifor up eight months, what made the company’s CAMI …
5 years, 9 months ago
Jan. 15, 2021 | What makes Ontario a great place to build EV batteries and why the province should
Carmine Pizzurro, plant manager of the former Delphi battery plant in Ontario and the co-founder of EV infrastructure company eCamion, says the provi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Jan. 8, 2021 | What cash-conserving Canadians and a K-shaped recovery could mean for 2021 sales
Rebekah Young, Scotiabank Economics’ director of fiscal and provincial economics, says a K-shaped recovery could be on the way, talks about how much …
5 years, 9 months ago
Jan. 1, 2021 | How Unifor's Dias saved Canadian auto manufacturing
Unifor President Jerry Dias discusses the Canadian labor union's success in bargaining with the Detroit Three automakers, the pandemic's ''positive''…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dec. 25, 2020 | Magna's Kotagiri on new CEO role, driving growth and Don Walker's legacy
Incoming Magna CEO Swamy Kotagiri discusses the road ahead for the Canadian supplier as Don Walker prepares to retire at the end of the year. He also…
5 years, 9 months ago
Dec. 18, 2020 | Alberta dealers association head on COVID, sales, and why Albertans shun EVs
Gerald Wood just couldn’t stay retired. Eighteen months after leaving Ford Canada, he became the head of the Motor Dealers’ Association of Alberta an…
5 years, 10 months ago
Dec. 11, 2020 | December sales to be soft, but vaccine gives hope for Q1 and spring
Jeff Schuster of auto forecaster LMC Automotive says restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 will likely hurt December sales while inven…
5 years, 10 months ago
Dec. 4, 2020 | Google reveals the two most important things car buyers want from a dealer website
Mathew Growden of Google Canada’s Auto Retail Team reveals the two most important things car buyers want from a dealer website and talks about how th…
5 years, 10 months ago
Nov. 27, 2020 | Downtown Auto Group’s Shahin Alizadeh on dealerships, condos and COVID-19
Downtown Auto Group’s Shahin Alizadeh explains how economics and “thinking outside the box” led him to build a $100-million multi-brand store complet…
5 years, 10 months ago