New Online Course Available Now
Following up on the first half of the Luxury Automotive Strategy and Marketing online course published a while back, the second half is now available on Udemy at the link HERE. As for the previous one, this course too is thought for enthusiasts and...
Is luxury automotive marketing changing?
Times of uncertainty and overall luxury market slowdown as highlighted in previous articles have brought difficulties to several brands in the segment. However, regardless of current and recent success or struggles, trends in brand, diversification,...
2024 has been a difficult year for Stellantis’ top-tier luxury brand despite undergoing a deep image renewal with a new product line to match. A while back I wrote about Maserati’s renovated marketing communication on the eve of the release of the MC20...
New Luxury Automotive: Going Beyond Performance?
The current luxury automotive landscape is shaped by a specific trend that has influenced various players and could increasingly define new products in the near future. In a way, it might even seem like the industry is going backwards. But the truth is...
Automotive Luxury Market in 2022: The Growth Continues
The luxury automotive sector showed significant resilience over 2020 as the Covid pandemic broke out. While the wider sector has been faltering in its recovery, the luxury segment kept growing in the following year and in 2022 as well. Along with the...
Marketing Racing #14: Lamborghini NFT Moon Landing
A few days ago Lamborghini has finally revealed its NFT project teased in December. it is one of the most creative, if not the most creative one seen so far in the automotive industry, with one important twist. And, as imaginable, it was a successful...
Maserati enters Formula E: the future is electric
On Monday, Maserati announced its entry in the Formula E Championship starting from the 2022-23 season. This is not just a first for the Trident house, but a first for Formula E itself which sees the first Italian manufacturer entering the...
NFT in Luxury automotive: Ferrari and Lamborghini jump in
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) have been around for a while, but only in 2021 we have seen this space literally boom. And this trend in technology directly linked to that of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, among others, is gradually affecting every...
How Performance Automotive Innovates: Lamborghini’s Case Study
The evolution of the automotive industry poses a lot of challenges especially when it comes to sports and supercars that for their nature are created to offer something more than just moving from A to B. It is a different concept of driving. Emotions,...
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,...
The Best Car Configurator: Pagani and MHP with Unreal Engine
Last week the Unreal Build: Automotive 2021, an event that was first hosted in 2017, was held online. During the Conference, companies collaborating with automotive giants presented some bleeding-edge technology applications that promise to...
Should Lamborghini produce a GT car?
Nowadays, Lamborghini is, for the most part, synonymous with flashy, futuristic-looking, impractical, “uncomfortable”, but luxurious, beautiful, and crazy-fast 2-seater supercars. Naturally, being impractical, and uncomfortable, to a certain extent, is...
Luxury Automotive Startups: What’s the recipe for success
The luxury automotive segment is an extremely competitive niche, with just a few strong players and very high entry barriers. Over the last 30 years, many tried and very few succeeded. While electrification is partially lowering such barriers on the...
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....
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...