28
June
2012

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 |
21
June
2012

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 |
14
June
2012

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 |
7
June
2012

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 |
31
May
2012

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 |
26
May
2012

0829200910384 © by roland
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 |
17
May
2012

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 |
10
May
2012

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 |
3
May
2012

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 |
29
April
2012

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 |