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31 August 2020 In August 2020, around three months after the official announcement, Tobias Moers has finally joined Aston Martin Lagonda as the new CEO. He leaves his previous role at the Mercedes AMG division and replaces outgoing Andy Palmer after almost six years....

20 August 2020 The Global Automotive industry has suffered a sharp decline in sales in the first half of 2020. With the sector already slowing down in 2019, the impact of the pandemic exacerbated its condition already in Q1 when China started the lockdown. By the end...

07 August 2020 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...

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....

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...

27 April 2020 Whenever one says ‘Blockchain’, the first thing that comes to mind is usually Cryptocurrency. This technology whose applications have been studied for several years now, especially in the financial sector, has the potential to change much more. It...

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...