Overall prices for used vehicles in the Canadian wholesale market declined for the week ending on March 22 by 10% compared to only 0.04% the prior week, based on Canadian Black Book’s latest auto market update. The overall car segment …
Used vehicle wholesale prices remained relatively flat this week for the Canadian market, down slightly by 0.04% for the week ending on March 4, according to Canadian Black Book. Last week it was up 0.03%, while the industry average between …
Canadian automotive retail sales experienced “significant” increases throughout 2021, according to a year-end review from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). “In almost all cases this was driven primarily by higher prices per unit—rather than booming unit volumes,” said Andrew King, Managing …
The Canadian used wholesale market remains relatively flat—this time up 0.09% for the week ending on March 4, compared to the previous week’s increase of 0.03%, according to Canadian Black Book. The truck/SUV segment out-performed the car segments, slightly, for …
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. While the pandemic restrictions that limited sales over much of the past two years are now mostly behind us, the microchip shortage that ensued is being resolved only …
The Canadian used vehicle wholesale market remains relatively flat—up only 0.09% for the week ending on February 25, according to Canadian Black Book’s latest update. The market average from 2017-2019 for the same week was -0.14%. The overall car segment …
Hopes for a dramatic resurgence of auto sales in Canada with the new year will remain unrealized for a while yet, as supply-side issues continue to constrain vehicle production for most manufacturers. Canadian sales of 91,411 new vehicles in January, …
December 2021 sales of approximately 102,900 new vehicles in Canada were closer to pre-pandemic norms than at any time since March, down just 4.5% from a year earlier and 6.1% from 2019. But that modest recovery was too little, too …
Sales of 110,448 new vehicles in Canada in November, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), were down 13.9% from the same month last year and 23.9% from November 2019, which was the last pre-pandemic year for comparison. As a …
New-vehicle sales in Canada fell to just 128,419 units in October, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), the lowest tally for the month since 2011. That total was down 17.7% from the same month a year ago, making it …
A chaotic disruption in new vehicle sales in Canada intensified through the third quarter of 2021, with September sales dropping to the lowest monthly SAAR (Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Sales Rate) since May of 2020—about 1.55-million, based on DesRosiers Automotive Consultants …
The past 18 months have been among the toughest the auto industry has faced, and some automakers have endured them more successfully than others. Six months into 2021, the automotive industry is beginning to recover from the extended impact of …
