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Collision Repair

Friday Fun: Millenials start buying cars, autobody influences art and Goodyear debuts a levitating tire

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 10, 2016 — It’s time for another Friday Fun, where we look at all the odds and ends from the week that was. This week we dig into what may be an upcoming recall announcement, goings on at the Geneva Motor Show and a look at Goodyear’s concept […]

Goodyear's new concept tire, the Eagle-360. The tire is 'attached' to the vehicle by a magnetic field … and nothing else.

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Friday Fun: Airbag scandal balloons, Ontarians get trikes and Warren Buffett knows what’s up

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 4, 2016 — It’s time for another round of the stuff you may have missed in the week that was. This week, we look at yet more recalls due to faulty airbags, how Campagna Motors will finally be able to sell its extremely cool trikes in Ontario and […]

The T-Rex from Campagna Motors. Ontario has recently enabled drivers to register three-wheeled vehicles in the province.

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Friday Fun: Fix Auto down under, Maaco teams with Pep Boys and ABRA adds execs

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 25, 2016 — Welcome to another edition of Friday Fun! This week we’ve got a recap of Fix Auto’s trip to Australia, four new execs join ABRA Auto Body & Glass and a new partnership between Maaco and Pep Boys. – Fix Auto CEO Steve Leal travelled to […]

The new Lotus Evora Sport 410 is constructed with a carbon fibre body. They're only making 150 of these, and we don't want to even think about the price tag.

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Friday Fun: Customer service beats cycle time, an elephant beats cars and Ford beats potholes

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 18, 2016 — It’s time once again for our weekly round-up of news, facts and general weirdness from around the collision repair sector and beyond. – A very interesting idea is contained in a new research report. Believe it or not, but cycle time might not be the […]

Some of the assembled stakeholders at the Technology and Trends for 2016 course held at Centennial College.

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Friday Fun: BMW partners with Alpina, aluminum autos threaten pop can production and the ‘Automatron’ takes retro to a new level

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 11, 2016 — It’s that time again, when we look back on the week just passed. Our collection this week includes a US legislator who doesn’t want repairers to charge more than the national average, BMW’s partnership with Alpina to create vehicles that could be described as “highest-end” […]

The steampunk-inspired 'Automatron' takes retro custom cars to a whole new level.

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Friday Fun: Airbag scandal gets worse, Microlattice is the lightest metal and Bill Nye gets NASCAR all wrong

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 4, 2016 — It’s time once again for our weekly wrap-up of the news that might have slid under your radar, including the latest on the airbag scandal, a metal that’s lighter than styrofoam and Bill Nye’s incorrect ideas on what people like about NASCAR. – The airbag […]

Behold Microlattice, the lightest metal ever created. It was developed for airplanes, but we might see it make its way into cars eventually.

Friday Fun: Axalta finds favour on Wall Street, Daimler’s head visits Google and Takata can’t make airbags fast enough

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 28, 2016 — It’s time once again for our round-up of the unusual, the bizarre and the just plain funny stuff that happened in the last week. This time around, we’re looking at why the head of Apple’s car project is stepping down, how Takata can’t make airbags […]

Dieter Zetsche, the 'grandly mustachioed Chairman of Daimler' recently paid a visit to Google.

Friday Fun: Saskatoon pounded by snow, repairers fight crime and a chicken farm yields over 200 classic British cars

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 21, 2016 — This week we take a look at the big snowstorm that hit Saskatoon, why the US Car Czar doesn’t believe we’ll see another record setting sales year in 2016 and the rare find of over 200 classic cars on a chicken farm in New Zealand. […]

If you've always had your eye on a Vauxhall, then a trip to New Zealand might be worth your while. A reporter found a collection of over 200 classic British cars on a chicken farm, with the majority of them being Vauxhalls.

Friday Fun: 2015’s stunning sales numbers, Optimus Prime up for auction and Takata lands in even hotter water

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 7, 2016 — Welcome to our weekly roundup of the the most interesting auto news bits and bites from the past week. This week we dig into 2015’s huge new car sales numbers, the auctioning of Optimus Prime and how Takata has landed in even bigger trouble. We wouldn’t […]

Barrett-Jackson is auctioning off some of the vehicles used in the Transformers movies, including one of the trucks used to portray Optimus Prime.

Thursday Fun: Drones checking claims, 2015 may set a record for vehicle sales and China goes wild for electric cars

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 30, 2015 — We usually run these on Fridays, but there’s no reason you should miss your weekly dose of fun and weird stories just because of the holidays. We’ve got the usual mix of noteworthy, unusual and downright bizarre stories from the automotive world. – General Motors […]

Allstate is testing drones in Iowa to check on property claims. Could the technology be used for auto claims as well?

Friday Fun: KIA joins the self-driving game, Uber angers transit and China’s car boom might bust

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 17, 2015 — Welcome to another collection of interesting items from the week that was: – California has announced new rules around autonomous vehicles (AVs). Apparently Google is disappointed that the state is going to require that cars being used have at least one real human in the vehicle. […]

KIA has recently announced it is getting into the self-driving car game, testing its vehicles in Nevada.

Friday Fun: Auto sales spike, the world’s most high-end garage and custom culture films

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 3, 2015 — Welcome to another weekly look at the weird, the funny and the just plain bizarre from the world of cars. – The auto industry has finally caught on to this whole Black Friday thing. Sales in malls and at consumer goods stores may have been […]

Independent filmmakers are crowd funding a movie on custom car culture.

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