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Now that they both have big pickup trucks on the market, Toyota Canada Inc. and Honda Canada Inc. intend to open new dealerships in Western Canada, senior executives of both companies say.
Without full-size pickup trucks to sell until recently, both companies have felt shut out of farming communities and other rural territories where such vehicles […]

Willa Norris, 8, left, and Hannah Fowler, 10, sit in a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country minivan during a demonstration of Sirius Backseat TV on Thursday, March 29, 2007 in New York. Chrysler, which invented the minivan, is teaming with Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. to bring three channels, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, to […]

“This generation is huge, and if you miss the boat with them, or alienate them entirely, you’ll have a hard time winning them back,” said Rebecca Lindland. “There are 75 million of them and they’re going to be a huge part of the buying market in the next 5 to 10 years.”
Toyota markets the […]

GM have slashed their advertising budget across the board all except in their internet ad spending, has advertising reached the tipping point? Is the web the Holy Grail of advertising now?
The facts point to newspapers as being the worst hit.
(the chart compares January through November ‘05 to spending during the same period in ‘06):
Newspapers - […]

President Bush peered under the hood of an all-electric sport utility truck parked at the White House Friday to stress that his goal of reducing gasoline use by 20 percent over the next decade is realistic. “I firmly believe that the goal I laid out—that Americans will use 20 percent less gasoline over the next […]

This is a sneak peak at a possible new arrival Freelander SUV from Land Rover. Initially aimed at the European market, it is uncertain whether the baby ute will be brought to North America. However, with rising fuel costs and the demand still high for so-called SUVs, discussions are ongoing. Code-named L358 and often referred […]

According to the stats December saw the fastest increase in sales in the last 9 years. The strongest markets were automobiles and retail. Bloomberg stated: Canadian retail sales rose at the fastest rate in nine years in December, adding to recent gains in exports and wholesaling that suggest the economy is in a broad- based […]

Rumours abound that GM Motors could buy Chrysler seems to be gaining some traction. Chrysler who builds around 2.5 million vehicles a year would keep GM ahead of rivals Toyota. Hyundai had also been tipped as possible owners but we will have to wait till the dust settles to see if that is likely.
Daimler-Benz paid […]

Just when you thought the Kelowna bait car program could help you sleep easier at night. The latest is that thieves are now targeting catalytic converters. The anti-pollution devices contain small amounts of platinum, rhodium and palladium, and the value of these precious metals has been rising sharply, making catalytic converters a hot commodity in […]

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will rename its slow-selling Five Hundred model the Taurus, a name Ford previously had used for a car that became the nation’s top-seller, two company officials said Tuesday.
The officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition they not be identified by name because the official announcement had not […]