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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....
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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...
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Lamborghini Strategy: the Next Decade
In recent weeks, the Italian luxury performance automaker has made the news twice. Once for the release of the latest Huracán iteration, STO (Super Trofeo Omologata), and another time for the appointment of Stephan Winkelmann back at the wheel of the...
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6 Factors to Relaunch the brand: Aston Martin and Mercedes Agreement
In the latest press release published by Aston Martin, the automaker announces its report for Q3 of 2020 along with the renewed partnership with Mercedes-Benz AG through a new strategic technology agreement and new financing. The new agreement stands...
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Implications of VW selling Bugatti to Rimac
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...
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Nico Rosberg enters the Rimac Family: Rimac Business Model
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...
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Are Electric Hypercars disrupting the luxury performance niche?
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...
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Marketing Racing #4: A Lamborghini in your Living Room
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....
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Phase 2: Q1 and Italian Luxury Car Manufacturers’ reaction
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...
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Automotive social media marketing: Why Lamborghini is winning
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...
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How VW turned Lamborghini into the success it is today?
Lamborghini today is a strong and fast-growing company. In the last two years, its already growing sales have literally skyrocketed as the firm took advantage of the SUV craze that dominates every segment of the automotive market. LAMBORGHINI'S SALES...