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Friday Fun: Big changes for Ontario insurance, New Jersey MSO goes solar and GM sales plunge

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — June 2, 2016 — We’re just about ready to wrap up another week! This time around we’ve seen big changes arrive in Ontario auto insurance, a new gasoline tax landed in Newfoundland and Labrador, and GM’s sales fell a remarkable 18 percent. – Ontario drivers now live […]

Branning Collision Centers, an MSO in New Jersey, is converting four of its five locations to solar power.

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Friday Fun: Front seat danger revealed, Skydrive takes to the air and Caliber Collision has big plans

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 26, 2016 — Here’s to another great week in the collision repair industry! This week we look at a new safety issue, the Skydrive flying car and how Caliber Collision plans to grow to 1,500 shops by 2020. – Be careful out there, folks. This week brings reports […]

A team of Japanese engineers says it will have its 'Skydrive' vehicle ready for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

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Friday Fun: New tricks for catching distracted drivers, new admissions about emissions and California busts a staged collision ring

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 19, 2016 — This week we take a look at new tricks for catching distracted drivers, more admissions from OEMs about distorted emissions data and California has busted a big staged collision ring. – The May long weekend is upon us and police are getting ready for a […]

An accident on Toronto's Gardiner Expressway literally tore the engine out of one vehicle.

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Friday Fun: Repairers help Fort McMurray, Ontario’s breathalyzers may be faulty and Linux joins the auto world

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 12, 2016 — Welcome to another edition of Friday Fun. This week we look at repairers stepping up to help out the citizens of Fort McMurray, the “crunch” for insurance companies and why Ontario’s breathalyzer equipment might be faulty. – It’s good to see some members […]

An Ontario judge has recently ruled that breathalyzer machines used in the province may be faulty.

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Friday Fun: Canada’s cheapest car, biggest numbers and a shop in Phoenix makes a surprising discovery

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 5, 2016 — This week we look into Canada’s cheapest car, big numbers for auto dealers and what Warren Buffett and Bill Gates think about the coming era of autonomous vehicles. – A recent report in the Globe and Mail takes a look at Canada’s cheapest car, the […]

A Tesla 3, the new 'mass-market' version of the company's electric vehicle. Tesla has recently announced plans to produce 500,000 electric cars every year starting in 2018.

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Friday Fun: Trouble at Mitsubishi Motors, Ford experiments with 3D printing and LeEco may compete with Tesla

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 28, 2016 — This week we note the baseball-sized hail in San Antonio, how the situation at Mitsubishi Motors just went from bad to worse and how Ford’s experimenting with 3D printing. – Chrysler designers managed to create their own recall. Certain models of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep […]

Carbon3D's M1, the company's current-generation 3D printer. The technology can apparently give results similar to traditional auto parts molds.

Friday Fun: Aggressiveness increases behind the wheel, inside Service King and the disturbing truth behind abandoned supercars

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 21, 2016 — This week we dip into a study that confirms some really, really obvious things, a profile on the folks behind US consolidator Service King and why supercars are being abandoned throughout the United Arab Emirates. – An insurance company has done a study confirming what […]

It's a sad sight, but it's increasingly common in the UAE. A report indicates that these high-end vehicles are being abandoned by expats fleeing criminal charges related to debts.

Friday Fun: Rich kids from China buying high-end cars in Vancouver, license plate readers and experts say AVs are ‘decades away’

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 14, 2016 — It’s time for another edition of Friday Fun! This week: Hyper-rich kids of the Chinese Communist Party elite super heat the Vancouver high-end car market, license plate readers create private plate databases and all the reasons AVs may be decades away from getting on the […]

Toyota's uBox concept vehicle, designed with customization in mind.

Friday Fun: Tailgate thefts, accountants are a poor risk and Toyota’s wooden car

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 7, 2016 — This week we dip into the rash of tailgate thefts sweeping through Saskatchewan’s capital city, a study out of the UK that shows accountants are the worst drivers by profession and a report from Moody’s that says autonomous vehicles won’t be widespread until 2055. – […]

The wooden Toyota Setsuna, a concept car with a maximum range of about 16 miles. Let's be honest here; it's for looking at, not for driving.

Friday Fun: Caught on a wire, Tory is tops for Toronto towing and Dyson may get into the car business

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 31, 2016 — It’s time for another edition of Friday Fun, the weekly feature where we shine a light on the items you may have missed in the last week. – This is the sort of thing that professional stunt drivers train for years just to attempt, but […]

A motorist in Tennessee got stranded up a telephone pole recently. We maintain that most professional stunt drivers would have difficulty pulling this one off.

Friday Fun: ‘Distracted’ is the new ‘drunk,’ car part candidates and good neighbours build good walls

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 24, 2016 — A long weekend is no reason to miss out on your weekly dose of the weird and unusual from the automotive world and beyond. This week we take a look at how distracted driving may become the new drunk driving, an artist who has built […]

Joe Kildune is a sculptor whose preferred material is used car parts. He made these sculptures representing Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Friday Fun: Robotics prof says self-drivers ‘not ready,’ the car boom may go bust and one worker says he was fired for his Russian heritage

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 17, 2016 — It’s time for another edition of Friday Fun, our weekly round-up of the stuff you may have missed in the last week. This time around we find out why one robotics professor says autonomous vehicles just aren’t ready, how the current car boom may go […]

Mary Cummings, a robotics professor at Duke University, recently told a US Senate committee that autonomous vehicles are 'absolutely no ready' for widespread deployment.

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