The fender bender business

Things you might not know, if you didn't read the trades: according to the current issue of Bodyshop magazine, the Canadian trade title for collision repair specialists, their readers are having to get used to the demands posed by the growing number of hybrid cars, with their sophisticated electronics and big batteries. They are also having to adapt to repairing cars that are a different shape from the traditional "sedan". And while new safety devices are making one-car "parking lot accidents" less frequent, there is apparently no end of work for these collision shops to do as there are more and more cars on the road.

Bodyshop is published by the Business Information Group, now owned by Glacier.