Roy Deyoung

Engineered Automotive is pleased to announce that Roy Deyoung has joined EA as lead service adviser. Roy comes from a motorsport background, having spent years both Go Karting and Formula 1600 racing. Roy has an extensive educational background, having attended the Universal Technical Institute and NASCAR Technical Institute. Roy is currently pursuing a degree in automotive engineering. Roy continues his love for motorsport in the form of lapping days as well as working with professional race teams in Grand American competition. Roy has a passion for the original Mini and drive’s a Mini Cooper S himself. Roy’s favourite car of all time is the Ferrari F40.

Billy Smilovsky

Billy Smilovsky is Engineered Automotive’s founding partner. Billy’s vision and direction has guided EA for over twenty years. From an early age, Billy was exposed to engines and mechanics of all types. At the age of fourteen, Billy started a career in small engines and it was at that point that he recognized his calling in life. Upon completion of high school, Billy immediately pursued and acquired a mechanics license. He worked at numerous facilities to learn all he could, feeding his inquisitive nature and passion for automotive technology. Billy was also active in the racing scene, having worked as crew and crew chief for professional race teams in different racing series. Billy had a long standing career with Porsche Motorsport Canada and in addition, acted as crew chief for his own family race team in go kart competition. Billy was also a successful racer, having competed professionally in the Rothman’s Turbo Cup Series. Billy’s cause and effect personality means that whatever he attempts in life, he will complete. Billy is a start-to-finish type of person and can tackle any project to perfection.

Dave Tomassetti

Service manager, Dave Tomassetti has been and integral part of the Engineered Automotive Team for more than three years. Dave brings extensive service experience to EA having run his own successful service, performance and race business. Dave has a serious interest in motorsport and has been a part of the racing community for over twenty years. Dave has built and raced many different BMW race cars over the years and is passionate about the track. Dave’s talent for tuning, fabrication and his technical experience are second to none. His enthusiasm for the business has guided him to deliver exceptional results far exceeding EA’s customers expectations. Outside of the office, Dave is a devoted husband and father, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and supporting his son’s hockey ambitions.

Tim Smilovsky

Tim Smilovsky has been a member of the EA team since July of 2009 and brings a unique skill set to EA. Tim has a bachelor’s degree in Technology Industrial Engineering from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and heads up shop development, organization and efficiency at EA. Tim feels that EA’s core strength is its unique clean environment that portrays care and quality of workmanship. Tim takes great pride in tackling the most integrate of tasks and enjoys fixing anything that is broken. Audi vehicles are Tim’s favourite although he likes his Mazda B2200 because he knows every part on it! Tim takes great pride in everything he does and enjoys the accomplishment of achieving each and every task he takes on. Away from EA, Tim enjoys spending time by the fire and with friends.

Rob Koestner

Rob Koestner is currently in his third year of apprenticeship at Engineered Automotive. Since Rob began working with EA in 2007, he has been active in service and with EA’s track events. Rob enjoys working on premium performance cars at EA’s state of the art facility and feels he truly has a dream job. “Working in a state of the art facility with various sports/luxury/high performance cars is an enjoyable aspect of working at EA.” Rob enjoys working on race cars and especially seeing them blast down the straightaway at Mosport. Outside of work, Rob enjoys participating in many sports including hockey, basketball and tennis at both recreational and competitive levels. Rob has two cars in mind that he would like to see in his garage, an orange Porsche 997 GT3 RS and a Mercedes Benz C63.

Andrew Stefan

Andrew Stefan has an extensive history with Engineered Automotive having worked with the organization from 1989-1998 and from August 2009 to present. Andrew worked as a mechanic for the Heimrath Porsche Racing team in the Turbo Cup Series and has a keen interest in Porsche product. “I enjoy working on Porsche’s because the design, engineering and quality of materials used are the best I’ve seen in the automotive industry.” Andrew studied and graduated from Centennial College’s Aircraft Maintenance Engineering program in 1996 and has worked in many different automotive fields. From 2000 to 2008 Andrew worked in automotive manufacturing as a CNC production machining and automation/robotics technician. Andrew returned to EA because he enjoys the variety of work and EA’s focus on quality. Andrew’s favourite car is the Porsche 997 GT3 RS or the Porsche 993 Turbo. Outside of EA, Andrew likes to tour the country by motorcycle and also has a keen interest in aviation, music and audio electronics.

Mark Wilkins

Mark has been a part of the Engineered Automotive family since March of 2009. Focused on marketing and sales, Mark also helps coordinate EA’s track events as well as driver coach. Outside of EA, Mark is highly focused on his motorsport career and contests in the Grand Am Rolex SportsCar Series in the Daytona Prototype Class. Mark grew up around the track following his dad’s racing career. Mark graduated with a degree in Automotive Management obtained from Georgian College’s Canadian Automotive Institute and has always had an overwhelming passion for cars and racing. Mark enjoys putting his passion to good use at EA and had this to say about the company. “Engineered Automotive is 100% committed to delivering the highest quality customer service experience in the industry. It is great to work with an organization so focused on the customer experience.” Outside of work, Mark enjoys training, biking, cottaging, and keeping up with the latest automotive news and trends.

Claudio Silva

Claudio Silva has been a member of the Engineered Automotive service team for over two years. Claudio’s wealth of automotive service knowledge has made him an integral part of the EA service team. With close to twenty years of industry experience and six ASE (Association for Service Excellence) certificates, Claudio is extremely well versed in automotive repair. Claudio has worked primarily with European makes and has completed numerous training courses in Audi, BMW and Volkswagen. He takes great pride in the high caliber and quality of work performed at EA and enjoys the challenges of the job. Claudio’s favourite vehicles are made by Audi and Volkswagen and feels the best car of all time is the Audi Sport Quattro due to its outstanding rally racing heritage. Restoring a 1965 Jaguar E Type is Claudio’s most memorable project at EA. Outside of work Claudio likes to bike, read up on the latest automotive news and spend quality time with friends and family.

Francesco Simone

Engineered Automotive is pleased to welcome Francesco to the EA service team. Francesco joined EA in March of 2010 and brings a plethora of experience to the organization. Francesco graduated from Humber College’s Mechanical Engineering Cad/Cam program and then pursued an apprenticeship as an automotive technician with Centennial College. Francesco’s automotive interests began at the age of 11 when his father taught him about the internal combustion engine. Since then he has enjoyed taking apart anything he could get his hands on, from lawnmowers to dirt bikes and cars. Working on different types of cars and working with other passionate people is the most enjoyable aspect of Francesco’s job. “I feel EA is very different from other automotive facilities in terms of cleanliness, environmental conciousness, the quality of workmanship, state of the art equipment and overall order in which the shop is run.” Outside of EA, Francesco enjoys studying piano at the final ARCT level in the Royal Conservatory of Music and playing at weddings and events.

Sieg Smilovsky

Sieg Smilovsky has been a member of the Engineered Automotive family since 2007. Having worked in the automotive industry for over twenty five years, Sieg has brought an extensive knowledge base to EA’s parts business. Sieg spent many years working as parts and service manager for Heimrath Porsche as well as facilitating their race program before heading up the parts department at Engineered Automotive. Sieg has a keen interest in the thoroughbred racehorse industry and spent the better part of thirteen years training racehorses. Sieg enjoys following the career of his daughters who compete at the highest level of equestrian competition. “Engineered Automotive is the only facility in the city where the customer is treated like more than a customer and I’m proud to be a member of the EA team”.

Kurt Smilovsky

Kurt Smilovsky is a licensed automotive technician, who graduated from Centennial College in 2009. Prior to his professional involvement in the business, he grew up in the Engineered Automotive shop alongside his father, Billy and spent many weekends racing with his family. With a natural flair for creative problem solving and a passion for motorsport, Kurt is well known for his project cars; an example of which is the Shelby Cobra custom race car seen at many EA Days. Kurt takes great pride and care in every project he completes, and his pursuit of perfection and quality suits the EA philosophy nicely. Porsche is Kurt’s favourite brand of car to work on and to drive. In his spare time, Kurt prepares his own E36 M3 race car, and can be seen lapping Mosport at our track days. Kurt was even invited to test for Formula BMW in Valencia, Spain, and though not currently competing, will do so in the future.

B. Philp

Engineered Automotive has been doing the maintenance and tuning work on my cars for nearly a decade and the reason is pretty simple: As a lifelong car guy, I have never encountered their combination of real passion for cars and an obsessive dedication to doing every job exactly the right way. After every visit, I feel like I’ve been talking to people who ‘get’ me and what I expect from a car, like only a fellow enthusiast can. I have absolute confidence in my car when they hand me back the keys. For someone who used to check tire pressures and bolt tightness before I would even drive off a mechanic’s lot, like I once did, that’s no small thing. We’re customers for life.

B. Philp

J. G. Temesvary

After being introduced by a mutual friend, I approached Billy Smilovsky in 2007 to discuss a total restoration of my 1986 Mercedes-Benz 560SL which had been left unused in an underground garage for about ten years.  The car was quite deteriorated and rusted and the restoration would include: rebuilding the engine and transmission, the braking system (as well as all other drive train components) and the engine cooling and air conditioning systems; changing the exterior colour; and correcting numerous other deficiencies (both visual and mechanical).  EA performed the restoration excellently, in terms of quality and also on time and within budget.  The paint job was flawless (with the only way of telling that the colour was changed being by reference to the serial number) and the car is virtually like new and a pleasure to drive and, to date, it has been completely reliable.  EA also maintains other vehicles for me and again, the service provided has been excellent and thorough.  I highly recommend EA to everyone.

J. G. Temesvary

B. Menchions

Dear Billy and the rest of the crew at Engineered Automotive:

I am excited to learn of the new website launch. It will be only the latest step in your ongoing business growth and maturity. As you know, I have been a customer of yours for almost twenty-five years. In that time, you have extensively modified several new vehicles into very high-performing and unique custom cars and trucks for me. The appraised value of each of them after conversion has reflected the time, planning, skill, and execution which marks your work. You have been able to understand well what I was going for in each project, and together we have brought many unique ideas into each one. I have not wanted to sell any of these vehicles, but the one I did part with brought tens of thousands of dollars over the black book value at the time because of the quality of the work you did.

“Interior, sound systems, exterior modification and painting have all been done to a very high standard (yours). You have done work on Porsche, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, and a variety of North American vehicles for me. While in and around your shop over the years, I have witnessed all manner of complete frame-off restorations, complete redesigns, massive upgrades, and customizations you have performed for others. The quality is always first rate.”

You have provided other services for me as well, from ongoing preventative maintenance to repair on all my vehicles. I have preferred to have you deal with warranty work with dealers for me at times, for either convenience or technical reasons. You have helped me to acquire vehicles (some from outside Canada) and done much research about possible modifications using ideas and parts from around the world. I have had complete peace of mind in storage of vehicles as well.

“I have always looked forward to every one of the hundreds of visits I have made to your shop; your newest and largest facility has been designed with customer comfort in mind, and the attention to detail shows as soon as one enters the building.”

“I wish you every success. I unhesitatingly recommend you to anyone (and have). I would be more than happy to talk about my experiences with you and your staff with any prospective customers as well.”

Yours truly,

B. Menchions MD FRCPC

P. Somers

If in your soul a car is more then a means of transportation between point A and point B then you owe it to yourself to look more closely at EA. In our recent search for a Mercedes C63 my wife and I stumbled upon EA. One quick email, an immediate response and Lynn and I were on our way to Toronto on a Saturday morning. An hour later, upon our arrival we entered what I can only say is a car person’s paradise. We were greeted in the most relaxed enthusiastic manner. These people love cars and their knowledge and passion for automobiles is just amazing!

For me to drive a great car is an event and just walking through the doors at EA is worth an hours drive. When I finally got around to seeing our car (so many other amazing cars to look at) I was presented with the most meticulously detailed automobile I had ever seen. I couldn’t believe it had 7,000 kilometers on the odometer. It was obvious that the people at EA were passionate about automobiles. Lynn took one look and the car was ours. The price was great and the process was not only painless but fun!

I have returned several times since that day and I have been greeted like family.

Their service is second to none and they are genuinely happy that Lynn and I love our C63. If you love cars and you want the drive to the corner store to be an event, do yourself a favour and check out Engineered Automotive. Next Lynnie and I have to get the folks at EA to teach us to really drive the beast … they do that as well … track days!

P. Somers

J. MacQueen

In a competitive automotive marketplace where consumers have many choices,  Engineered Automotive have separated themselves from the pack by embracing a customer-centric service model that recognizes the core importance of quality service.  They have exceeded my expectations on every level…from pick-up and delivery options designed to fit my schedule, transparent pricing and fantastic follow-up.  Their focus on the entire customer experience is nothing short of impressive.

J. MacQueen

D. Lacey

Engineered Automotive has provided excellent service for many of my vehicles.  From the street car pick-up/drop-off service to track side assistance on set-up, EA not only has the right facilities, but also the right people for the job.  I trust them all the way for anything with a motor and four wheels.

D. Lacey

B. McIntosh

My EA experience has been nothing short of total satisfaction.  Whether it is routine maintenance, or specialized work, the job has always been completed as promised, and my car returned to me looking better than ever.

When it was time to sell a vehicle last fall, the EA team took the car in and found a buyer within a week.  As pleased as I was with the selling process, I’m sure the purchaser was equally satisfied and is now a member of the EA family as well.

Another positive for me is the fact that I can recommend EA to my friends and know that I’ll be getting a phone call saying how impressed they were with how they were treated by the folks at EA.

Whether it is gathering on a Sunday morning to watch an F1 race, attending a Track Day, or having worked performed on one of my cars, the EA experience is truly terrific!

B. McIntosh

Mechanic

We are always interested in hearing from qualified mechanics.

If you are an apprentice looking to gain experience or a certified mechanic, please submit a resume to Dave@engineeredautomotive.com.

Thank you for your interest in our company.