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Collision Repair
Friday Fun: Insurance scam goes wrong, BMW’s art cars and the open source car
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 26, 2015 — Our weekly collection of highlights, lowlights and general weirdness from the last week. – A perfect example of how not to pull of an insurance scam unfolded recently in Ireland. David Ward, driving an Opel Corsa, rear-ended a Volkswagen Passat driven by Lynsey Ivory. Both […]
Collision Repair
Friday Fun: GM to double sensors, the rare beauty of Fordite and California’s auto hub
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 19, 2015 — Interesting and unusual highlights from the past week: – From the realm of science fiction: Some speculate the roads of the future could provide the electricity to keep the electric motor in your car running. As a media report this week puts it, “we have […]
Collision Repair
Friday Fun: Deer visits shop, rodents gnaw cars and Ford won’t imitate an ostrich
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 12, 2015 — This week’s update includes a deer who visited a collision centre, unusually high rodent damage claims in Manitoba and Ford’s Executive Chairman saying “We put can’t our heads in the sand” regarding the series of revolutions he sees in the auto industry’s near future. – A […]
Collision Repair
Friday Fun: Good times in the auto industry, Tesla’s troubles and a car hits a collision centre (again)
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 5, 2015 — Herewith, a collection of interesting news bits related to the collision repair sector from the week that was: – Get ready for a whole batch of new cars to repair. Times are good in the Canadian auto industry. The sector reports that new car sales […]
Collision Repair
Friday Fun: Boyd’s heavy trades, Domino’s mobile ovens and bursting the hype bubble on AVs
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 29, 2015 — Collision repair industry news from the week that was: – Boyd Group had to issue an official press release in response to very heavy trading in its stock. Stock market rules require a company to issue such statements if there is large, unexplained volatility in […]
Recycling
St. Thomas auto recycler changed by Africa mission trip
St. Thomas, Ontario — October 28, 2015 — The owner of McGregor Auto Parts recently returned from a compassionate and life-changing trip to Sierra Leone, Africa with the grassroots organization, Let Them Laugh Out Loud (LOL). Jeff McGregor had travelled to the West African country as part of a team to support a paediatrician from […]
Friday Fun: Rockstar gets into autobody, US org to require connected cars and Russia’s car collapse
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 22, 2015 — Recapping a few of the interesting items you might have missed this week: – Blurring the lines between the autobody world and the virtual world is video game producer Rockstar Games, which announced that it’s new “Lowrider add-on pack” for its popular Grand Theft Auto 5 […]
Friday Fun: Dieselgate’s effects, AV insurance and Fenix makes acquisitions
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 15, 2015 — A collection of interesting goings-on in the auto world from the past week: – The VW scandal continues to generate some interesting knock-on effects. VW, of course, was caught cheating on emissions tests. The scandal has focused attention on emissions testing in general. There is some […]
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