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...
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,...
Beyond Ferrari 2025 First Electric Car: Sustainability in Luxury Automotive
Ferrari just held the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, and the Exor CEO and current Ferrari CEO John Elkann gave some important statements. The most-reported these days has certainly been the one about the release of a full-electric model by...
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...
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....
Marketing Racing #7: MSO & McLaren Sabre
Despite the pandemic and the many difficulties for automotive manufacturers, 2020 has been a year full of surprises. Numerous limited series or few-offs, as well as one-offs and highly anticipated new production models, have seen the light. But the...
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...
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...
6 Most Significant One-Off Supercars
Luxury today is about uniqueness. Automakers constantly enrich their services and offer a range to satisfy every client’s desire. Luxury automotive nowadays cannot be anymore just about producing beautiful, insanely fast, or extremely luxurious cars....
Should McLaren develop an SUV?
It is quite common now to see luxury performance SUVs by almost every company in the segment. In big cities, where the market is significantly developed, they are not even a particularly special sighting, considering the overall sales numbers. The last...
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...
Rolls-Royce marketing: CEO Announces the New Ghost
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,...
McLaren’s First Quarter and Updated Strategy
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...
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....
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...