Ford invests $500 million into electric vehicle start-up Rivian
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario – April 24, 2019 – Ford is moving in on developing more models of electric vehicles. On Wednesday the OEM announced it will be investing $500 million into the electric vehicle start-up company Rivian. The company has had previous discussions with German OEM Volkswagen about the production of electric vehicles. […]
Ford to provide automatic shop referrals to drivers
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — April 18, 2018 — A future where OEMs, not insurance companies, dictate which bodyshops should—and should not—make repairs has come one step closer. In the very near future, Ford will begin referring drivers to trusted collision facilities, the OEM announced during a Verifacts Guild 21 call last week. In a […]
Autonomous Vehicle Report – overestimating the arrival of self-driving cars
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario – April 12, 2019 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, a CEO from a major OEM casts doubt on the public’s timing expectations for autonomous vehicles as self-driving cars as self-driving vehicles roam around a major European city. Delayed Arrival We’ve been hearing about it for years and expecting it any […]
Autonomous Vehicle Report- April 5
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — April 5, 2019 —Ford, General Motors (GM) and Toyota, along with SAE International, have established a new consortium that will focus on the safety of autonomous vehicles. SAE International, a global association of engineers, said that Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC) would work “to safely advance testing, pre-competitive development, […]
Aluminum small tool kit
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — April 2, 2019 — For those pursuing the Ford F-150 aluminum certification program, Grade A Tools offers an aluminum small tool kit that has each item required by the program. This kit is sold separately from the aluminum repair station (DF-900DX). Shops will need both items to be certified for the […]
Ford recalls F-150 trucks
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — February 13, 2019 –- Ford has recalled approximately 1.5 million pickup trucks in North America due to the fear of their transmissions suddenly downshifting into first gear. The recall, which includes 1.26 million vehicles in the U.S. and 221,000 in Canada, covers F-150 models from 2011 to 2013 with six-speed […]
Market update: Auto sales continue to slide
By CRM staff Toronto – December 10, 2018 — New vehicle sales in Canada were down 9.4 percent in November, continuing a slide that has been going on for eight months. Vehicle sales last month dropped to 143,668 units sold with year-to-date sales of 1,870,703, down 2.3 percent from last year’s record sales volume, according […]
AutoCanada buys Windsor dealership and collision centre
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — November 20, 2018 — AutoCanada has acquired Rose City Ford Sales Limited, one of two Ford dealerships in Windsor, Ontario. The national dealership group will add the 65,000-square-foot facility, which includes 28 service bays and a collision centre, to its coast-to-coast dealer network. “We are very excited to acquire our […]
Market update: PPG shows slight growth, Ford invests in scooters
By CRM staff Toronto – November 13 – In this week’s midweek market update, Ford buys a scooter company, coatings inventory affects PPG sales in the auto refinish market, and Enterprise wins again. Let’s go for a SpinFord Smart Mobility, LLC has acquired Spin, a San Francisco-based electric scooter-sharing company providing an alternative for first- […]
More SEMA award winners
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — November 6, 2018 — Ford Motors took home three of the five vehicle of the year awards yesterday, as SEMA revealed the results from several of their 2018 competitions. The American company claimed the top prize in the category of car of the year, truck of the year and sport […]
