28 June 2012

Interview with Wojciech Halarewicz, CEO of Mazda Italy – 2nd Part

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The first part of The Interview

 

Do you think it is possible to produce vehicles by industries with more agile organizations than those currently existing?

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Posted by Emilio Perri in Alfa Romeo, Car, Mazda, The Interviews | 0 Comments

21 June 2012

Interview with Wojciech Halarewicz, CEO of Mazda Italy – 1st Part

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Interview Date: Jun, 1st 2012.

Professional Profile: Wojciech Halarewicz

Remarks: Interview carried by  Emilio Perri

We were lucky to cross on the “our way” Wojciech Halarewicz, CEO of Mazda Italy, what better opportunity to ask him about his international experience? 

Considering the most recent news we cannot but ask for more information on the Alfa Romeo-Mazda agreement, just signed …
The Memorandum signed by the two companies means that we are preparing and evaluating the basis for reaching the final agreement in autumn. Read more »

Posted by Emilio Perri in Alfa Romeo, Car, Europe, Market, The Interviews | 1 Comment

14 June 2012

Failures and lotto draw…

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Questo l'ho fatto io 2! © aldoaldoz

Electronics has started being used predominantly in the automotive field and its major development has been realized in this sector in the last couple of years.

At the beginning of the automotive history the major improvements were obtained by a hard work on the propellers by increasing the compression ratio together with the fuels but the greatest development took place when the ECU and its microprocessors were introduced. Read more »

Posted by Paolo Camerin in After Sales, Car, Customer Satisfaction | 0 Comments

7 June 2012

The car according to Google

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Plain English (sort of): "Please do not speak to driver while bus is in motion" © Newtown graffiti


 The driver? … It’s an optional!

How do you create something really new in the automotive field?
The answer is: think different!

It is what ​​the brilliant creators of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, made getting to an original and hardly debatable conclusion: the limit of the car we know is connected to the limits of the driver!

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Posted by Raffaele Vincenti in Car, Electric Cars | 0 Comments

31 May 2012

BMW conquering new markets…

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Audi R8 Interior © Edoardo Mascalchi

 

The market recession is good for some. So it seems for the BMW market team and their product manager colleagues.

BMW is targeting its marketing efforts at acquiring new customers who were previously typical of Audi. Throughout the Dolomite Super Ski area which involves 16 ski areas including Cortina and Alta Badia, there are advertisements for the permanent intelligent X-Drive all-wheel drive traction. Read more »

Posted by Paolo Camerin in Audi, BMW, Car, Market | 0 Comments

26 May 2012

Mercedes target change

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The new Mercedes B class television ad, in my opinion, signals a significant communication strategy change that already started with the ads for the E class.
Mercedes sales results in Italy are definitely the worst among the three large German manufacturers. Read more »

Posted by Paolo Camerin in After Sales, Audi, BMW, Car, Customer Satisfaction, Europe, Market, Mercedes | 0 Comments

17 May 2012

Carmakers’ sperimentations whilst thousands of dealers are drowning!

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New scenarios for Italian dealers: the debarkation of Penske Automotive Group in Italy put in motion many brains and overheated … some phones.

Carmakers and associations estimate that 1.000 dealers will go out of the business in Italy in 2012 . How to save these companies from the wreck? Federauto – the italian dealers association – has clear ideas: “it is necessary to ask incentives to the Government!”…

Are the automobiles dealers living in another world ? ! ? Read more »

Posted by Maurizio Sala in After Sales, BMW, Car, Fiat, Long-term rental | 4 Comments

10 May 2012

Toyota Prius: world’s best selling model is hybrid!

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Prius jumps to lightspeed © Roger H. Goun

 

For the first time in the automotive history an Hybrid vehicle is the world’s best selling model, as reported by focus2move.com research team, with over 256.000 vehicles sold in the first quarter 2012, ahead of former leader, Toyota Corolla (253.000) and Ford Focus (231.000).

Toyota Prius is a full hybrid electric vehicles introduced in the 1997 in the Japanese market and progressivelly launched all over the world (it is actually sold in more than 70 countries). Read more »

Posted by Carlo Simongini in Car, Ford, Market, Toyota, Volkswagen | 1 Comment

3 May 2012

Fiat 500L a design approach

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As bloggers we were invited to the presentation of the new Fiat 500L, the small MPV from the Turin company that will replace the “Idea” by the end of the year. We don’t want to talk about the product, even though it deserves to be discussed, since the specialized magazines will do so as soon as the first models hit the road. Instead, we want to talk about the atmosphere, sensations and constructive spirit that the designers in the style center wanted to pass on to us.
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Posted by Paolo Camerin in Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Europe, Jeep, Lancia, Market | 0 Comments

29 April 2012

Freelance Consultant?…NO THANKS. Leg-Work, PLEASE…!

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In today’s business industries, more and more people are becoming freelancers. Freelancers are most common in fields such as journalism, copywriting, computer programming, graphic design, and other professions in creative sciences such as…Automotive Industry! However, Experts in nearly any field are freelancing these days. During a downturn in the Economy, Companies are apt to hire freelancers over full-time employees to meet budget constraints. Read more »

Posted by Matteo Ceronetti in After Sales, Car, Europe, Market | 0 Comments

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