Rimac signs historic Strategic Joint Venture with Porsche to form Bugatti-Rimac
On Monday, July 5th, 2021, Rimac Automobili held a live event during which were announced a series of changes at the corporate level that represent historic milestones for the young Croatian company. Mate Rimac, on the stage, revealed the birth of...
Ferrari’s Fashion Show: Diversification in Luxury Automotive Marketing
Last weekend, Ferrari held a fashion show for its renewed clothing line right at the factory, beside its assembly lines. The event announces Ferrari's shift toward an even higher market segment in the fashion industry, and the brand’s attention toward...
Beyond Ferrari 2025 First Electric Car: Sustainability in Luxury Automotive
Ferrari just held the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, and the Exor CEO and current Ferrari CEO John Elkann gave some important statements. The most-reported these days has certainly been the one about the release of a full-electric model by...
The Luxury Automakers and Branded Residences Trend
Bentley Motors announced a few days ago the development of its latest project. A 60-stories building co-developed with American developer Dezer to offer a Bentley branded residence experience featuring lots of amenities. Among these, probably the most...
Ferrari Officially Enters the Le Mans Hypercar Program
The year is 2023, and it will mark Ferrari’s return to the top class of endurance racing. Its last entry was in 1973, and after that Ferrari only participated in the GT class where it collected numerous successes. The last one in 2019 with the 488 GTE...
One-off Supercars: What’s the next step for luxury automotive?
The automotive industry sales have been decreasing for 3 years now. The drop in fact has begun in 2018, way before the impact of Covid-19, mainly due to stagnation in the Chinese market. The same cannot be said for the luxury automotive segment though....
Why Buy Ferrari? Words from a Collector
To properly understand the workings of the luxury automotive niche, one has to understand how the client’s preferences evolve, how trends pick up, and what are the needs of a restricted and highly selective group of customers. This time I was lucky...
5 Christmas Automotive Social Media Marketing Campaigns
As this strange 2020 draws to a close, I thought it would be fun and fitting to review the best social media marketing campaigns and different approaches used by the luxury automakers over the Christmas period to either celebrate the holidays or give...
6 Most Significant One-Off Supercars
Luxury today is about uniqueness. Automakers constantly enrich their services and offer a range to satisfy every client’s desire. Luxury automotive nowadays cannot be anymore just about producing beautiful, insanely fast, or extremely luxurious cars....
Ferrari Marketing Mix: The Prancing Horse’s 8Ps
It is known that in the luxury automotive world Ferrari has such a unique history that very few come close. This strong identity reflects as well on its business model and its marketing mix. So, let’s dive in and see what and how many are the...
Implications of VW selling Bugatti to Rimac
A couple of weeks back, the news spread about Volkswagen’s intention to sell its top luxury low-volume automaker, Bugatti. What is more surprising is that Croatian EV automaker and tech supplier Rimac has been quoted among the interested parties in the...
UK EV Market: Britishvolt partners up with Pininfarina
Italian iconic coachbuilder and design firm Pininfarina and start-up Britishvolt announced a collaboration to build the first UK EV Battery Giga-Factory. The project is set to bring the UK at the forefront of the automotive industry evolution to...
Marketing Racing #5: Ferrari’s Art side of the Business
Here is a new article of my ‘Marketing Racing’ series, where I look closely and discuss the most interesting and innovative new and old marketing campaigns launched by luxury car manufacturers. Last month I looked at Lamborghini’s Huracán EVO RWD...
Are Electric Hypercars disrupting the luxury performance niche?
The term hypercar usually indicates a vehicle sitting at the very top segment of the market in terms of pricing, performance, and customer experience. As one could expect, it is a market reserved for a really small crowd of wealthy. This market niche...
Ferrari shares reflect the company’s positive momentum
A few weeks back it was reported online how Ferrari had surpassed both General Motors and Ford in market capitalisation. With its shares jumping up by 7% after the positive report of Q1 2020 which I discussed in last week’s article, its market cap...