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Canada Sales Recap: July 2014
July 2014’s year-over-year Canadian auto sales growth was more significant than the monthly growth rate achieved at any time in the last two years, a period which included record annual sales in 2013....
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10% Of The Nissans Sold In Canada Are Micras
Nissan Canada markets their new entry-level car with a $9998 base price. (It’s $11,398 with destination, $14,698 with a 4-speed auto and air conditioning.) The Micra is a sub-Versa car in a small car...
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Canada Sales Recap: August 2014
Canadians continued to buy new vehicles at a record-setting pace in August 2014 as the market expanded in all corners, SUVs and crossovers; pickup trucks; commercial vans; minivans; and even passenger...
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9% Of Canadians Are Thankful For Their Civics
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Around turkey-laden tables across the country today, Canadians will utter their thanks for family, cranberry sauce, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, warm socks, and Honda...
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Canada Auto Sales Recap: September 2014
Without an unexpected drastic downward turn in the final quarter of 2014, Canadian auto sales will reach record levels this year, a strong follow-up to best-ever sales in calendar year 2013. September...
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Best-Selling Midsize Car: Chrysler 200, In Canada, In October
Canada’s best-selling midsize car? The Chrysler 200. At least, that was the case in October 2014, a month in which sales of the 200 jumped 120% to 1800 units. Even with the near-disappearance of the...
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Canada Auto Sales Recap: October 2014
In October 2014, for the first time since March of this year, the Chrysler Group outsold all other automobile manufacturers in Canada. The margins were slim: only 259 units separated Chrysler Group’s...
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Small MPVs In Rapid Canadian Sales Decline
GM Canada sold only 32 copies of its Chevrolet Orlando in November 2014, the worst month yet for the rapidly declining Mazda 5 alternative. Although the Orlando set an impressive sales pace in its...
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Canada Auto Sales Recap: November 2014
Canadians registered more new vehicles in 2013 than any year in the country’s auto-buying age. Yet in 2014, that record was very nearly broken in the first eleven months of the year. Auto sales in...
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2014 Canada Auto Sales Recap: Records, Records Everywhere
2014 was a record-setting year for auto sales in Canada, a fitting follow-up to a record-setting twelve-month period one year earlier. Auto sales in Canada jumped 6% to 1.85 million, an increase of...
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Fiat 500 Love Affair: Over In Canada, At a Passionate Peak In Mexico
Fiat 500 sales plunged to an all-time low in Canada in January 2015, falling 69% to just 148 units. To be honest, 500 sales were lower in Canada on one occasion. In February 2011, only nine were sold....
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January 2015 Canada Auto Sales Recap – Pickups Earn 21% Market Share
Canadian auto sales increased 3% to the third-highest January in the country’s total in 2015 despite downgraded passenger car volume and limited SUV/crossover growth. The Ford brand began 2015 where it...
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Canada Auto Sales Recap: February 2015
FCA Canada outsold the Ford Motor Company by 3690 units in February 2015, stretching the company’s year-to-date lead over second-ranked FoMoCo to 7162 sales. Keep in mind, FCA (formerly Chrysler Group)...
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Contrast: Volkswagen’s U.S. Outpost Struggles As Volkswagen Canada Booms
Following 18 consecutive months of year-over-year decline, U.S. sales at the Volkswagen brand have improved in six of the last nine months. Yet those U.S. sales improvements send up deceiving smoke...
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Chart Of The Day: Canada Loves FCA And Small Cars, But Not The Dodge Dart
FCA Canada only sold 220 Dodge Darts in June 2015, a 79-percent year-over-year decline. Through the first six months of 2015, Dart volume is down 55 percent to only 1,979 sales, one-fifteenth the...
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This Is Why Nissan Isn’t Bringing The Micra To America
Nissan began selling the Micra in the northern part of North America at the end of April 2014. The Micra was properly available by summer, and over the last twelve months — through the end of June 2015...
View ArticleIsn’t It Ironic? Buick Verano Cancellation Timing Is Off In Canada
“An old man turned ninety-eight, He won the lottery and died the next day” – Alanis Morissette General Motors’ Buick Verano didn’t make it to 98, but after turning the grand-old age of 5, the...
View ArticleThe Honda CR-Z Is Officially Dead In Canada
2016 will be the final model year for the extraordinarily slow-selling Honda CR-Z in Canada. Honda Canada spokesperson Maki Inoue confirmed that the CR-Z is done, indirectly supplanted in Honda...
View ArticleMy Neighborhood is #CivicNation, And It Isn’t An Anomaly
We live on a small cul-de-sac with 19 other families. Until this past weekend, there were 33 vehicles parked in our street’s 20 driveways, not including the always different manufacturer-supplied press...
View ArticlePoltitics of Division: These 10 New Vehicles Demarcate the U.S. and Canadian...
Grits and poutine aren’t the only divisions betwixt us. Celine Dion and two-year election campaigns aren’t the only factors that enable Europeans to tell us apart. Catastrophic illness-induced...
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