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Resources for the automobile industry and listings of automotive manufacturers in Canada.



Automotive companies of Canada :



 
  • Armet Armored Vehicles

    Armet Armored Vehicles, Incorporated is a manufacturing company. It has three manufacturing locations; one in Concord, Ontario, Largo, Florida, and Marsa, Republic of Malta. It also has two subsidiaries; Armet Armored Vehicles, Ltd, in Ireland, and Armet Armored Vehicles, Ltd, in England. The company has been selling their vehicles world-wide now for over 25 years. There have been significant sales to Russia, Western Europe, North Africa, England, and the countries where they are produced. In more recent years there have also been sales to various governments in the Middle East and to regions in the gulf.

  • Chrysler Canada

    Chrysler Canada Inc. is Chrysler's Canadian division. Incorporated in 1925, the Chrysler Corporation of Canada gained complete control of a Maxwell-Chalmers plant that had been used to manufacture some Chrysler models in the previous year. Initially called Chrysler Canada, Ltd, the name of the company changed to DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc following the merger of the two parent companies. In August 2007, the company was renamed Chrysler Canada Incorporated when Cerberus Capital Management purchased 80.1% of its parent company Chrysler LLC.

  • Dupon Trolley Industries

    Dupon Trolley specializes in making and rebuilding buses. Based in Quebec City, it has been in business for over 60 years.

    Most of Dupon's clients are in Canada and the United States.

  • Ford Motor Company of Canada

    Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited is the manufacturing and sales arm of Ford Motor Company for Canada. It was founded in 1904 in Walkerville, Ontario by Gordon McGregor as President and Henry Ford as Vice-President. Ford took over the Presidency in 1906 and continued in this role until succeeded by his son Edsel Ford in 1927. Current Ford HQ is in Oakville, Ontario.

  • General Motors Canada

    General Motors of Canada Limited (GM Canada) is the name of General Motors' Canadian division. The national headquarters office, their Canadian Regional Engineering Centre, and the main manufacturing plants are located in Oshawa, Ontario.

  • Girardin Minibus

    Girardin Minibus specializes in custom order buses and is based in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada (along the Trans-Canada Highway). During the 1990s, Girardins were marketed through the United States branded as Blue Bird MB II/IV by Girardin alongside their own Micro Bird. Girardin is also a dealer for Blue Bird Corporation school and commercial buses in Canada. Most of Girardin's buses are mini-school buses and are used throughout Canada.

  • Honda Canada Inc.

    Honda Canada Incorporated is the Canadian unit of Honda of Japan.

    Founded in 1969, Honda has been building cars in Canada since 1986. The head office is in Toronto, Ontario. Plans are to relocate the various Honda offices to Markham, Ontario in 2008.

  • Linamar

    Based in Guelph, Ontario, Linamar Corporation (TSX: LNR) is Canada's second largest automobile parts manufacturer after Magna International. Linamar manufactures and supplies automotive and industrial markets across the globe with numerous manufacturing centres across North America, Europe, and Asia.

    The company was founded in 1966 by Frank Hasenfratz as Linamar Machine Limited in Ariss, Ontario.

    A recent takeover occurred in Wales, UK. Where Linamar bought the Swansea plant off Visteon UK Ltd.

  • Magna International

    Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG) is a Canadian company based in Aurora, Ontario. It is Canada's largest automobile parts manufacturer, and one of the country's largest companies. It also owns the successful Magna Steyr automobile production company of Austria.

    The company was founded in 1957 by Frank Stronach as Multimatic. This company merged with Magna Electronics in 1969, and the combined company became Magna International in 1973.

    Magna manufactures auto parts that are primarily supplied to General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler LLC. In addition to the Big 3 automakers, Magna's major customers include Volkswagen, BMW and Toyota. In Europe, Magna Steyr holds contracts for the assembly of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Chrysler Voyager minivan and BMW X3 SUV. Magna has a relativelely minimal presence in Asia with just 3 manufacturing centres in South Korea, 1 in Kunshan,China and 2 engineering centres in South Korea and China.

  • New Flyer Industries

    New Flyer Industries Inc. (TSX: NFI.UN) is a bus manufacturer in North America, headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It also has factories in Crookston and St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.

  • Nova Bus

    Nova Bus is a bus manufacturing company based in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Volvo Buses.

  • Olco Petroleum Group

    Olco Petroleum Group, Incorporated is a gas station franchise located in the province of Ontario, in Canada. The chain is an independent franchise, and has locations in many Ontario and cities. The company has 319 franchise stations: 182 in Quebec, and 137 in Ontario.

    Its head office is based in Montreal.

  • Orion Bus Industries

    Orion Bus Industries, previously Ontario Bus Industries in Canada and Bus Industries of America in the United States is a Mississauga, Ontario, Canada-based bus manufacturer established by the government of Ontario in 1975. Privatized in 1993, Orion was acquired by DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler AG) in July 2000, and is now, along with Setra in the United States and the Sprinter minibus line, part of the Daimler Buses North America group.

  • Pioneer Petroleum

    Pioneer is a gas station franchise located in the province of Ontario, in Canada. The chain is an independent franchise, and has locations in many Ontario cities and towns.

    The company was founded by Murray Hogarth on November 29, 1956 on Upper James Street in Hamilton, Ontario.

    Like its larger and older competitor Canadian Tire, the company offers its own community currency, in the form of "Bonus Bucks", similar to Canadian Tire Money.

  • RM Auctions

    RM Auctions, incorporated in 1991, is the world's largest classic car auction company. RM Auctions is a Canadian company which maintains offices in Canada, the United States and England. The company's headquarters are located in Blenheim, Ontario. RM runs a number of auction events which can be broken into two major categories: catalogue, and non-catalogue sales.

  • Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada

    Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. (TMMC) is the Canadian automobile manufacturing division of Toyota Canada Inc., which in turn is the Canadian unit of Toyota Motor Corporation. TMMC currently operates a plant in Cambridge, Ontario, and another in Woodstock, Ontario.

  • ZENN Motor Company

    The ZENN Motor Company is a Canadian-based company that develops small, purely electric vehicles. Their initial focus was to develop cars suitable for the neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) market. This was to be a stepping stone for developing freeway-capable vehicles, which could not be mass produced at that time. The company currently produces the ZENN vehicle.



 
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The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells the world's motor vehicles. In 2009, more than 60 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide.

In 2007, a total of 79.9 million new automobiles were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in Asia-Pacific, 19.4 million in USA and Canada, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and 1.4 million in Africa. The markets in North America and Japan were stagnant, while those in South America and other parts of Asia grew strongly. Of the major markets, China, Russia, Brazil and India saw the most rapid growth, and China became both the largest automobile producer and market in the world after experiencing massive growth in 2009. In the first quarter of 2010, the total sales of automobile were 4.61 millions in China, and the total sales were expected to be around 17 millions(13.65 millions in 2009) for the year of 2010, nearly twice as much as USA.

About 250 million vehicles are in use in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China. In the opinion of some, urban transport systems based around the car have proved unsustainable, consuming excessive energy, affecting the health of populations, and delivering a declining level of service despite increasing investments. Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who are also least likely to own and drive cars. The sustainable transport movement focuses on solutions to these problems.

In 2008, with rapidly rising oil prices, industries such as the automotive industry, are experiencing a combination of pricing pressures from raw material costs and changes in consumer buying habits. The industry is also facing increasing external competition from the public transport sector, as consumers re-evaluate their private vehicle usage. Roughly half of the US's fifty-one light vehicle plants are projected to permanently close in the coming years, with the loss of another 200,000 jobs in the sector, on top of the 560,000 jobs lost this decade.


 




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