Week in review – March 1, 2019
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario – March 1, 2019 – So what really happened this week? What were the biggest headlines concerning the collision repair and automotive community? Collision Repair has prepared the top five news headlines from the week. Solera’s New Research Centre Digital technology company in data and software for the automotive, light […]
GM extends Detroit plant into 2020
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — February 26, 2019 —General Motors in Detroit will live to see another year. The plant, which is on the border of Detroit-Hamtramck, was originally notified by the manufacturer that it would be shutting down effective June 2019. According to GM the location will remain open into January of 2020 to […]
GM reports 2018 earnings
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — February 11, 2019 — General Motors made headlines last year by shutting down several plants and putting thousands of people out of work. The company just announced that it made $8.1 billion in profit last year alone. The news doesn’t come easily to Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, a general trade union in […]
Unifor launches Super Bowl ad
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario – January 31, 2019 –- Unifor is upping the ante in their protest campaign against General Motors. The Canadian trade union will be launching a Super Bowl advertisement this Sunday urging consumers to boycott the manufacturer’s Mexican-made vehicles. “Canadian consumers have the power to choose which products they buy,” said Unifor […]
GM passes Nissan as Mexico’s largest vehicle manufacturer
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — January 30, 2019 — General Motors is now Mexico’s largest automaker in terms of vehicle output. With more than 830,000 vehicles manufactured in Mexico alone last year, GM surpassed Nissan, which slid by 10 percent in 2018, as the country’s top vehicle provider, according to data collected from Automotive News. […]
Market update: Most-searched vehicles, GM and flexible seating
By CRM staff Toronto – December 19, 2018 — In this week’s market update, Magna provides some insight to future trends and picks reconfigurable seating as a key feature for smart mobility. Plus, Canadian car shoppers show a preference for SUVs, and General Motors rolls out a jobs plan for Oshawa workers. Utility edges […]
Enterprise and GM’s plan to conquer connected cars
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — December 12, 2018 – Enterprise Holdings has partnered with General Motors to build a connected car empire by the end of next year. The partnership’s focus is to increase the number of connected cars by 100,000 for the end of 2019. This means the partnership would own the largest […]
Elon Musk toys with idea of buying GM plants
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — December 11, 2018 — The recent rash of General Motors plant closures has caught the eye of Tesla CEO, Elon Musk. In an interview with CBS 60 Minutes, the electric vehicle baron said he is considering buying some of the five factories GM is closing–including the facility Oshawa, Ontario. All […]
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 […]
AV Report – GM Cruise news plus survey results
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — November 30, 2018 —This week’s AV Report touches on General Motors recent announcement about their upcoming autonomous vehicles, and an Automotive Technology Survey. With all of the recent General Motors plant closures, the automaker releases their plans to going forward with the autonomous future they have invested in. Plus, […]
