Millennials are demanding car shoppers

As we head into the weekend, ponder these interesting insights into Canadian car shoppers: Millennials are not happy shoppers Millennials are, in fact, a tough sell. Fewer than half of them report being satisfied with their most recent car shopping experience (45 per cent), versus Baby Boomers at 62 per cent, notes the Canadian Car …

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Tesla Model 3: fans cheer, critics jeer

For years now, many have been puzzled and dismayed by the fanatical following of Tesla Motors’ founder and CEO Elon Musk. Fanatical? His supporters and acolytes numbered at least 250,000 this week, and their numbers are growing. These true-believers happily delivered a $1,000 non-refundable deposit to Tesla for the right to purchase a Model 3 …

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Lexus versus hybrids: want to jump into the betting pool?

Insiders at Toyota Canada tell me that at the home office you’ll find players in a little betting pool that pits Lexus against hybrids. The wager: Lexus-brand models will out-sell all the various gasoline electric vehicles Toyota Canada offers. I’d wager on Lexus and I don’t think it will be close, though the 2015 sales …

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VW dithering through dieselgate: as sales plummet, lawsuits mount and regulators circle, VW’s leadership pulls a Nero as the company burns

Volkswagen’s sales in Canada and the United States have collapsed in the wake of the unresolved “dieselgate” scandal that has rocked what was once the world’s No. 1 car company by sales. VW’s February sales in Canada plunged 27.7 per cent; year-to-date sales are down 22.9 per cent. VW Canada has now lost 1.2 per …

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Buick’s comeback: so long Geritol set, hello hipsters

At some point, the weight of the evidence surely must tip the scales in favor of Buick, the aspiring General Motors upscale brand fashioning one of the all-time great comebacks/revivals/reversal of fortunes in automotive history. Almost no one expected to see Buick racking up record global sales and winning plaudits for quality by 2016. But …

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