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06 October 2020 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...

22 September 2020 Porsche is boldly embracing the future of automotive with electrification in its Strategy 2025 plan. Like more and more manufacturers are doing, it has already declared that future models of its lineup will be full-electric. When it comes to sports...

10 September 2020 Around a year ago, 2016 Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg now turned into Entrepreneur/YouTuber published a video in which he talked about his intention to buy a hypercar. He then asked his audience for opinions on the options he selected (even...

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...

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...