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....
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,...
Post-Pandemic Luxury Automotive Industry: Q1 2021
In 2020, after a generally positive start of the first quarter, the world has been hit by the proverbial Black Swan. The pandemic changed profoundly our lives and, in many instances, has accelerated dynamics that were already developing in numerous...
How Luxury Automotive Design is Changing Today
When a new car is unveiled, the first characteristic we appreciate is its design. It is our first point of contact with a car. The aesthetics language always carries the signature of a well-known Chief Designer who gives the direction and heads an...
Luxury Automotive Resale Value and Depreciation: How and Why
Resale value is an extremely important factor in the luxury automotive sector as it affects different stakeholders and impacts the company long-term. Scarcity and exclusivity are arguably the most important elements of any strategy in this niche and...
The Luxury Automakers and Branded Residences Trend
Bentley Motors announced a few days ago the development of its latest project. A 60-stories building co-developed with American developer Dezer to offer a Bentley branded residence experience featuring lots of amenities. Among these, probably the most...
Aston Martin Marketing Mix: The Company's 8Ps
Over the last two years, Aston Martin underwent a difficult period and a deep restructuring. Lawrence Stroll, its new Executive Chairman completed a £500 million deal with his consortium, acquiring 16.7% of the company with £182 million and injecting...
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...
Marketing Racing #9: Rimac Social Media Strategy: Mate and his Technology
Rimac is the latest success in the luxury automotive industry, and in just 10 years distinguished itself for being an extreme innovator with its high-performance electric powertrains as well as other correlated technologies. As Mate Rimac stated during...
Luxury Automotive Coachbuilders: Changing or disappearing?
Coachbuilding is one of the most interesting aspects of the luxury automotive industry. It is deeply rooted in the origins of the automotive industry when automakers did not have production series models and clients went directly to coachbuilders for a...
Marketing Racing #8: Porsche Taycan Marketing and its Records
The Porsche Taycan has been a big deal for the industry since its first appearance as a concept under the name Mission E. It was the first long-standing established luxury manufacturer to start the production of an electric vehicle, which is something...
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....