Greg Layson

The Mercedes-Benz EQS 580, the luxury automaker’s flagship electric sedan, began arriving at dealerships this month and will start at $144,200, before shipping.

Flavio Volpe, CEO, Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, David Adams, president, Global Automakers of Canada, and Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association CEO Brian Kingston have all been tapped to advise Ontario Premier Doug Ford on how best “to protect Ontario’s rights under trade agreements.”

Stellantis has extended downtime at its minivan plant in Ontario due to supply chain issues, the automaker said Friday.

Canadian supplier Martinrea International is part of a joint effort designed to address the supply chain crisis affecting manufacturers, including automakers, and consumers the world over.

Pre-pandemic sales levels are possible, experts say. But the Canadian auto industry will still "have many of the same challenges" in 2022 as it did the year before.

Linamar Corporation founder and executive chair Frank Hasenfratz has died, the Canadian supplier said late Saturday. Hasenfratz died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family, the company said. He was 86.

New-vehicle sales in Canada increased slightly in 2021 when compared with the year before, but they finished well below figures from 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Ford of Canada has extended the deadline for employees to comply with its COVID-19 mandate to March 28, while GM and Stellantis report huge uptake of the vaccine among its workers.

It took the resources of a pair of large dealership groups to buy Mercedes-Benz Canada’s remaining company-owned stores for an undisclosed price.

The rapid pace of electrification means mining is now part of the auto industry. And with the race toward autonomous vehicles well under way, technology is an even greater part of the supply chain.

Canadian moldmakers servicing the auto industry are scrambling to get their hands on COVID-19 rapid tests as Omicron surges throughout Canada.

Fundamental economic drivers, such as robust wage gains and job creation as well as elevated household savings, suggest auto demand should approach pre-pandemic levels, said Rebekah Young, Scotiabank’s director of fiscal and provincial economics. 

The Trillium Automobile Dealers Association has written to leaders of the U.S. Senate, urging them to reject what the association calls “discriminatory tax credits for Canadian-assembled electric vehicles (EVs).”

AWIN Group of Dealerships and Zanchin Automotive Group have joined forces to buy Mercedes-Benz’s Toronto Retail Group.

Canada’s industry minister on Tuesday met with executives from General Motors and Stellantis in Detroit to relay Canada’s disapproval of President Joe Biden’s proposed electric-vehicle purchase incentive on American-made EVs and pitch Canada as a battery and EV supply chain to North America.