John Irwin

The market for dealership mergers and acquisitions is in the strongest shape it has been in more than a year, indicating that buyers are looking beyond the industry’s short-term challenges, experts said.

The acquisition would make Lithia the second public dealership group in the Canadian market.

In a Canadian Automobile Dealers Association survey, 57 per cent of retailers think they’re being shorted inventory, so Automotive News Canada reached out to all brands for answers

The Biden administration is being asked to rethink a Trump-era USMCA interpretation that could make most preowned vehicles shipped to the U.S. subject to import duties.

Production of the Dodge Charger and Challenger is expected to move to the United States next year, according to one forecasting company, potentially leaving the factory without a product to build beyond 2023.

The electrified version of the F-150 could be just the jolt that EVs need to gain traction. The gasoline-powered F-150 has been Canada’s top-selling truck for the past 55 years.

Stellantis's assembly plant in Brampton, Ont., might not have anything to build beyond 2023 as the automaker plans to move production of the Dodge Charger and Challenger muscle cars to the United States the next year, according to AutoForecast Solutions, a U.S.-based forecasting and consulting firm.

Whether true, the majority of Canadian new-vehicle dealers think their automakers aren’t giving them their fair share of global vehicle allocation.

Canadian supplier Martinrea and NanoXplore have created VoltaXplore to try to prove that enhancing lithium-ion batteries with graphene can greatly reduce charging times and increase electric-vehicle range.

The shortage affecting new-vehicle assembly is likely to impact the supply of replacement parts that also need microchips.

When Martinrea International’s Alfield Industries plant lost a key contract about a decade ago, the supplier invested in better technology and now says it can compete with suppliers in Mexico and the United States.

Cream-of-the-crop used-vehicle inventory is bleeding away to the United States in high volumes, leaving the Canadian market in short supply.

The number of new vehicles sold this summer will likely have less to do with typical seasonal trends and more with whether customers will be able to buy the vehicles they want.

Short-term solutions to the crisis will likely require vehicle assemblers and suppliers to pay more to get the chips they desperately need, said Sam Fiorani, vice-president of global vehicle forecasting at AutoForecast Solutions LLC.

As they grow older, move out of the city and start families, their car-buying habits have mirrored those of Baby Boomers and Generation X, said Madison Gross, director of consumer insights at CarGurus.