Polestar, the electric vehicle startup brand from Volvo, has chosen Groupe Park Avenue of Montreal as its first retail partner in the Americas region. The store is set to open in 2020 in a province that saw its EV sales increase 93 per cent in the second quarter this year.

Mayfield Toyota is relocating to the iconic West Edmonton Mall, where it will open a 317,000-square-foot store that includes more than 50 service bays  and valet quick-drop locations throughout the shopping centre, which hosts 30 million visitors per year.

Whoever forms the next federal government needs to end the piecemeal process of trying to save this country’s shrinking auto manufacturing industry. It’s time to cook up something more nourishing than the recent fast-food junk.

Unifor insists Nemak must keep its Windsor, Ont., plant open until the current labour contract expires in 2022. Nemak wants to shutter the engine-block factory in mid-2020 because, by then, only 10 per cent of the plant’s capacity will be in use.

Linamar also warned its investors in an update on market conditions that global light-vehicle production in the third quarter through year-end is expected to be down from the company’s previous June forecast.

Porsche Canada has opened its first national parts distribution centre in Mississauga, Ont., providing overnight delivery service — by ground and air — to its 19 dealers across the country.

The Japan and Detroit Three suffered sales declines last month, but some higher-end brands, including Lexus, Volvo and Acura, saw sales spike. The industry's September sales were down an estimated four per cent while year-to-date, automakers have sold 1.5 million new vehicles, down 4.1 per cent over 2018.

More automakers are likely to follow the Detroit Three's move to shift to quarterly reporting, which analysts say paints a more accurate market picture of the industry.

About 700 workers of the 1,100 at the St. Catharines, Ont., Propulsion Plant, which supplies V6 and V8 engines to assembly plants in the United States, have been told to stay home this week. Unifor says 5,000 workers, including those at parts plants, in Canada have been put on leave due to the strike.

While thousands of workers who assemble vehicles in Oshawa, Ont., will be temporarily laid off, work continues at stamping operations inside the factory. A GM parts plant in St. Catharines, Ont., and its CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont., which makes the Chevrolet Equinox, are still operating.

On certain 2018 model-year vehicles equipped with a 1.5-litre turbo engine, a software error in the engine control module may disable the fuel injectors, Transport Canada says on its website.

Union members returned to work at the Windsor, Ont., engine block plant late Sunday.

Unifor officials at both the national and local level declined to say what they intend to do next, beyond reviewing the ruling at a meeting Saturday.  Union members walked off the job at Nemak in Windsor, Ont., on Labour Day, protesting the company's decision to close the plant.

Unifor National President Jerry Dias accused Nemak of not adhering to a collective agreement at the company's Windsor, Ont., plant, which supplies General Motors engine blocks. Union members stopped working on Labour Day because Nemak plans to close the factory in mid-2020.

The illegal strike at the Windsor, Ont., plant that supplies engine blocks for the Chevrolet Silverado diesel pickup is now more than a week old. Unifor is trying to stage a 3,000-person rally Tuesday on a vacant lot adjacent to the plant, a union spokesman said.