Automotive News Canada - February 2017 - 1

FIRST-ANNIVERSARY EDITION

CIAS

FEBRUARY 2017 | VOL. 2, NO. 2 | AUTOMOTIVENEWS.CA FOR BREAKING NEWS AND DIGITAL EDITION

Suppliers push
'pause button'
on investment

2017

'We basically
have to stand
by and see which
way the wind
blows'
By STEPHANIE
WALLCRAFT

TORONTO CORRESPONDENT

CANADIAN PARTS
suppliers with Mexicobased operations say that
the uncertainties created
by the Trump administration in the United States
have put them into a holding pattern.
The rhetoric of the
new U.S. administration
regarding Mexico has
included discussions of
hastening renegotiation
of the North American
Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), introducing a 20
per cent tariff on Mexican
imports, and building a
wall along the entirety of
the 3,145-kilometre U.S.Mexico border.
Whether any of these
discussions will materialize into functional changes
in policy is yet to be seen,

RISING ATTENDANCE AND
FREE FROM NO-SHOWS,
THE TORONTO EVENT

PROVES ITS
RELEVANCE
By MICHAEL GOETZ
TORONTO CORRESPONDENT

WHENEVER MAJOR AUTOMAKERS ARE
conspicuously absent from major international
auto shows, questions arise about the relevancy
and future of the auto-show tradition.
But events such as the Canadian International
Auto Show (CIAS), Feb. 17-26, are not dying. They
simply have to adjust to new realities.
"Auto shows used to be the absolute central means
of bringing a car to market, but the world has moved
on," says Mathew Clarke, general manager, marketing and communications, Aston Martin the Americas.
He said that auto-show participation comes with
major costs and certain limitations. And with the growing number of alternative marketing and promotion
methods available, online and otherwise, Aston Martin
now looks at auto-show participation on a case by case
basis.
While the boutique automaker supports dealer
partners regionally at many auto shows around the
world, full corporate participation has lately been

Ford calls the
shift 'scary', with
small cars taking
a bigger hit as
automakers ramp
up more utilities
By GREG LAYSON
ONLINE EDITOR

RELATED STORIES

AS OLD AS
THE COUNTRY
ITSELF/PAGE16

THE CARS
OF
CIAS
41 NEW-TO-CANADA

REVEALS, A CLUTCH OF NEW
CONCEPTS AND THIS GLOBAL
AUTO-SHOW DEBUT PAGES 14/15

U.S.-Canada trade policy
has not changed, but the
mere threat of it has suppliers in limbo.

and that's the problem.
Canadian businesses with
interests in Mexico must
take a wait-and-see position.
"Nothing has really happened yet," said
Paul Bhogal, Managing
Director of BSB
Manufacturing Ltd., a supplier of CNC machining
and supply-chain management services.
"Are we concerned? A
little bit, but it's not really
changing the direction of
the business yet."
BSB opened a
40,000-square-foot
(3,700-square-metre)

SEE MEXICO PAGE 10

CUV craze bleeding
small-sedan market

SEE ORGANIZER PAGE 16

CANADA,
SINCE
1867
PIONEER CARS

TRUMP FALLOUT

RED BULL
AM-RB 001

CANADIAN BUYERS
are flocking to compact
utility vehicles and automakers are rushing to
give them what they want.
It's a trend that's killing the traditional car
market while creating
a seismic shift the likes
which some experts and
auto executives have
never seen before.
While automakers continue to add utility vehi-

The 2018 EcoSport is a
late entry to the CUV segment. Ford calls it "very
important" to the lineup.

cles, both big and small,
they have dialed back on
adding new compact cars
and sedans.
"There are not a lot of
new nameplates in the
midsize-passenger-car
market, and most of the
nameplates in it have
existed for decades. So certainly the 'new' and 'wow'
factors are on the SUV

SEE CUV PAGE 10



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