Subscription Service for Supercars: Does it work?
Between 2017 and 2018, numerous automakers released pilot tests of their own subscription models versions. Services that, for a monthly fee, would grant a client the choice of a new vehicle among a wide range of options and include insurance, (almost...
Electrification and Autonomous Driving Approaches in Luxury Automotive
In this important moment of transition for the automotive industry, luxury OEMs are, at different paces, moving toward vehicles electrification, autonomous driving, improved connectivity, and increasingly sophisticated ADAS. There are substantial...
Formula 1 Business Models: How F1 teams make money and stay competitive
Ahead of the 2022 season, which will bring significant changes to the rules, Formula 1 reaches half of its longest season with 23 races initially planned. Thanks to an agreement between the owner Liberty Media and the FIA, the sport has recently...
Aston Martin Restructuring: A year later
Aston Martin has just released its results for the first half of 2021. It has been a year since new CEO Tobias Moers took office, coming from its successful experience at AMG. A little less since the announcement of the renewed partnership between the...
Marketing Racing #12: Ferrari and Epic Games' Fortnite Deal
Automotive companies’ collaborations with video games developers to promote their own image and product are not a new thing, and racing video games have been around for a while now. It started with Atari’s Gran Trak 10 in 1974, but it took until the...
Bentley Marketing Mix: The Company's 8Ps
This is the third article within the “Marketing Mix” series, and this week is about Bentley. I previously discussed Ferrari and Aston Martin, applying the same analytical framework to each brand to highlight their respective strategy, important...
EV Market Growth 3 years later: China and the rest of the world
A while back, I wrote an article drawing the situation of the Chinese automotive market and trying to frame the buzz around the new energy vehicles growth in the world’s largest automotive market. You can find it here. The observation started from...
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...
Marketing Racing #11: Bentley and Fanatec unite Real and Virtual Motorsport
It is from last week, an important announcement by Bentley regarding a further step into the world of e-sports with a unique initiative and the collaboration with an extremely active player within the sector: Fanatec. But first, let’s see what has been...
Marketing Racing #10: How McLaren Social Media Strategy is Making a Difference
During the Cannes Lions Awards that are being held between the 21st and the 25th of June, on the festival’s website has been published a panel discussion about a very interesting partnership started last year between McLaren, Coca-Cola, and Amazon. The...
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...
Will Luxury and Super Sports Cars become Consumer Electronics?
Even though Evs have been around for a while now, it's just in the last two years that every major automaker started a proper race to catch up with Tesla and possibly outrun the rest of the competition. And while initial forecasts predicted that EVs...
The Next Step for Luxury Car Ownership: An Interview with Supercar Capsule Founder Andrea Sensoli
I have discussed before about how automotive companies nowadays develop extremely complex customer journeys to promote brand loyalty as the competition in the market gets fiercer and just building beautiful and fast cars is not sufficient anymore....
Automobili Estrema: An Interview with Founder & CEO Gianfranco Pizzuto
Just a few days ago we witnessed the presentation of an exciting new project in the luxury automotive landscape. The fully electric hypercar Fulminea, already teased a few months back by Automobili Estrema, a new company established near Modena at the...
Lamborghini Reaches for the Stars with Stephan Winkelmann: Direzione Cor Tauri
Just yesterday, on May 18th, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann announced the company’s strategy for its electrified future under the evocative name ‘Direzione Cor Tauri’ (Heart of the Bull in Latin) and using the Taurus constellation’s brightest star,...