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29 July 2020 Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös has just announced the release of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost that will come in Autumn. Rolls-Royce is the quintessential expression of luxury in the automotive industry. In terms of attention to details, opulence,...

21 July 2020 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...

14 July 2020 The automotive industry has been slowing down in the past two years. Apart from a few exceptions, most car manufacturers struggled to reach the sales number of the previous years as emerging markets saturated. The luxury segment represents one of these...

30 June 2020 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...

23 June 2020 Auto shows have been for most of the past century the main promotion channel for automotive manufacturers. Especially in Europe and North America, the first exhibitions started at the beginning of the last century. It has been years now though since...

11 June 2020 One consequence of the quarantine period for the motorsport industry, and indirectly for automotive companies, it has been to bring E-sports to the spotlight, accelerating their growth even more. I already touched in a previous article on the growing...

02 June 2020 McLaren has recently released its financial statement for the first three months of 2020. Like other automotive companies, the business has been seriously impacted by the virus outbreak. Why, all things considered, other companies in the same market...

21 May 2020 It was around a month and a half before the 2020 Geneva International Motor Show that Lamborghini announced it would have skipped the event. Then, even with the pandemic affecting the entire industry, media and enthusiasts got a degree of satisfaction....

14 May 2020 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...

07 May 2020 Phase 2 approaches and automakers are starting to finally look ahead. Factories are gradually reopening even under strict controls for health and safety. In Europe, since the second half of April, several countries began the process. In Italy, and...

16 April 2020 The automotive industry has been one of the most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak so far, starting from China back in January. Sales have already suffered a sharp decrease in the mass market, and everyone is trying to assess what the situation is...

06 April 2020 Today the necessity of a strong social media presence is obvious whatever the industry. In the luxury performance automotive sector, all the major companies have a wide variety of activities covering the main platforms. Some even go for more niche or...

29 March 2020 Numerous announcements popped up on Maserati’s marketing channels lately, and especially since the beginning of the year. The company is going through a major restructuring process. The developments involve a wide range of business aspects: marketing...

17 March 2020 In the luxury performance car market McLaren, despite being young, has already distinguished itself for producing some of the cars with the most alien and imposing presence, which often translates to performance as well. This is thanks to the...

10 March 2020 The current EV battery industry, with a few big companies, is very much an oligopoly. And the major ones all come from Asia, Korea, Japan and of course, China. Chinese CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited, or in Chinese 宁德时代 – Níngdé shídài)...