Automotive News Canada - October 2017 - 3
SECOND FRONT
New Brunswick dealer
delivers vehicles to buyers
throughout Atlantic Canada
- in some cases more than
1,500 kilometres - for free
(and customers are not
obligated to buy)
Dealer Principal Trevor
Carson takes it "on
the chin" with some
long-distance deliveries,
but the shorter ones
make up for it.
WHILE DEALERS ACROSS
Canada consider changing their
business models in response to
consumer attitudes, one dealership in Atlantic Canada is well on
its way.
In addition to offering traditional test drives and sales and
service at its store, Moncton
Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge will deliver any vehicle on its lot, new or
used, directly to any customer
based in New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Prince Edward Island, or
Newfoundland.
The service, which is carried
out by a staff member from the
dealership, can mean sending a
vehicle as far away as 440 kilometres north within New Brunswick
to Edmundston, or via ferry to
the Newfoundland capital of St.
John's, for a total distance of 1,550
kilometres and travel time of
about 24 hours.
Dealer Principal Trevor
Carson told Automotive News
Canadian
inventory
continues to
be siphoned,
driving up
prices at
home
TORONTO BUREAU
Special delivery
TORONTO CORRESPONDENT
Stronger dollar
still favours U.S.
used-car buyers
By JOHN IRWIN
(PHOTO: JEFF MELNYCHUK)
By STEPHANIE WALLCRAFT
Canada that the service began
two years ago but has taken off
over the last six months with
about 50 deliveries having been
completed so far this year.
Moreover, each one is done at no
additional cost to the customer.
"If the car costs $29,995 and we
sell it for $29,995, then we're delivering it for $29,995," he said.
It's also done without a completed bill of sale. Each vehicle is
delivered to its potential buyer
sight unseen, whether it's just
down the road to Fredericton or
across the ferry to Corner Brook,
Nfld., 870 kilometres away, with
an understanding that the customer can look it over and complete a test drive before signing
the contract.
And if that client in Corner
Brook isn't satisfied with the car?
"We bring it home," Carson
said.
While this can be a costly proposition, Carson said that the service pays off in repeat and referral business.
"We get customers saying,
'Hey, my neighbour bought a car
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"We take it on the chin a bit
if we have a lot of deliveries to
Newfoundland, but we also do a
lot of business within a 50-kilometre radius where our only cost is
SEE MONCTON PAGE 10
BRUCE KOROSCIL'S
Hyundai dealership in Grand Falls,
N.B., sits right
across the border
from Maine, so he
knows firsthand how
the exchange rate
impacts Canadian
dealership operations.
"The almighty
dollar is going to
get the U.S. dealer a
deal. The money is
heavily favouring
the U.S. buyer," said
Koroscil, co-owner and general manager of Grand Falls
Hyundai. "I'd be buying cars in the States
if it was the other
way around."
It has been a
problem Canadian
used-vehicle dealers have had to put
up with for years.
And it is not likely
to get better anytime
soon, even though
the Canadian dollar
has strengthened in
recent months from
a low of 72 cents in
May to as high as 83
cents in September.
That and a shortage of used vehicles
resulting from longer new-car loans
will likely cause
used-vehicle prices
to remain high.
"Dealers along
TRANS-CANADA NEWS 5,000 KILOMETRES OF STORIES
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TORONTO - TONY LOURAKIS,
co-founder and
CEO of Fleet
Complete, is
among the recipients of Canada's
Top 40 Under 40
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North Bay car dealer
suspended by OMVIC
NORTH BAY, Ont. - OMVIC,
Ontario's vehicle sales regulator, has
ordered the suspension of D.L. Auto
Brokers, operated by Darrel Legare
and Andrea
St. Amant at
518 Lakeshore
Drive, North
Bay. They may not legally sell, lease,
buy or consign vehicles.
According to OMVIC, immediate
suspensions are issued only when
the regulator believes a dealer's conduct may place the car-buying public
at risk. The suspension was triggered
the border in the U.S.
would expand their
markets to include
areas in Canada
when they're trying
to figure out where
to source used cars,"
said Tom Kontos,
chief economist at
ADESA Analytical
Services.
The exchange
rate is a major factor
keeping Canadian
wholesale values at
high levels, even as
the U.S. used-vehicle
market faces pressure from declining
values, Kontos said.
That's because
relatively low
used-vehicle inventories have kept prices
high, thanks in large
part to Canadians
opting for longer
loans as opposed to
increasingly popular leasing options
in the United States.
Canadians are holding onto their vehicles for longer, and
American dealers
SEE DOLLAR PAGE 10
ADESA's Tom
Kontos says that
Canadians who opt
for low-interest,
long-term loans
hold onto their cars
longer, which puts
pressure on usedcar inventory.
(PHOTO: ADESA)
by a consumer complaint, followed by
an OMVIC investigation. OMVIC also
issued proposals to revoke the dealer's
registration and to refuse new applications for registration by Legare personally and for a new dealership.
Dealership-driven campaign
supports kids in sports
FOR THE SEVENTH YEAR,
Charlesbourg Toyota of Quebec City
collected sports equipment for children of families who might not otherwise afford it. Started by former Quebec Nordique player Marc
Tardif, who is also the co-owner of
SEE TRANS-CANADA PAGE 10
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