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2021, the list of the most read posts on Automotive Space

11 Years of AUTOMOTIVE SPACE and also this year we publish the list of most read posts! I chose to publish the 10 most read posts to understand what is more interesting for our readers and give a list of posts, to the readers, that the Community deem worthy of being read. Automotive Space is on line since 11 years (with about 290 posts issued); please, contact us ([email protected]) if you...

There will be a “disruptive” change for car dealers as well?

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Will this pandemic actually be the acceleration of changes in every production sector, and therefore also in the automotive field? Will the car no longer be the same as we known it? Maybe yes, and probably the car is at the moment in the same phase which the typewriter or the Kodak paper experienced in the 80s, that is, we are trying to perfect an old model to the maximum, but we aren’t actually...

2020, the list of the most read posts on Automotive Space

Also this year we like to publish the list of most read posts, from begin (about 10 years), of Automotive Space! I chose to publish the 10 most read posts to understand what is more interesting for our readers and give a list of posts, to the readers, that the Community deem worthy of being read. Automotive Space is on line since 10 years (with about 280 posts issued) at this moment we haven’t...

What do Toyoda, Fehrenbach and Vettel have in common? The good sense!

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In recent weeks, the statements of three people considered – rightly – serious and followed have gone almost unnoticed. Akyo Toyoda is President of Toyota and also President of the Association of Japanese Automobile Manufacturers Franz Fehrenbach is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bosch, one of the leading manufacturers of automotive components. Sebastian Vettel needs no introduction It...

Covid 19. At the recovery, will the transport system be the same?

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I don’t want to be one of those, too many, who pontificate how the Covid 19 will change the world. Allow me, however, to express a couple of considerations about how, at the end of this stage of restrictions, our behaviour and those around us will change. Let’s start from the car and its use. Until yesterday, the general policy of governments and local administrators was to discourage the...

Coronavirus and the three points of no return for the automotive

One of the fields, which will be more affected from the Coronavirus, is, with any doubt, the heavy industry and, among them, in Europe the automotive. The whole supply chain is suffering the consequences of a sudden collapse in the final demand; the recovery won’t be immediate at all simply because the EU market is a substitutional one and therefore the demand curve is very elastic to negative...

The world in electric is revolutionizing the nautical too

It seems there is no doubt, they way we’ll move in the future must be electric; convinced or not, everyone is going in this direction. Legislators, media, car dealers and marketing offices have started down a road, which seems with no return but, if you think it involves the automotive field only, you are wrong. It seems the yachting sector and the commercial shipping have made the same choice. Autonomy...

2018, the list of the most read posts on Automotive Space

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Also this year we like to publish the list of most read posts, from begin, of Automotive Space! I chose to publish the 10 most read posts to understand what is more interesting for our readers and give a list of posts, to readers, that the Community deem worthy of being read. Automotive Space is on line since 8 years (with about 230 posts issued) and sometimes publish a fewer number of posts because...

When the perfume will become a standard for dealers?

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The title of the post wants to be quite provocative, but in itself the question is when the sensory marketing will be fully applicable even to the dealers? According to Richard Axel and Linda Buck, Nobel Prizes in Medicine in 2004, our brain, our “memory” can remember over 10,000 smells, while only 200 different colours. This statement in itself should make us reflect on the proper planning...

How to transform your own customers into fans: the social customer service

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“If you sell something you obtain a customer today. If you help somebody you obtain a customer for all life long.” The Social Customer Service combines, in the customer service, the social network, which communications are public. It’s new aspect, if compared with a traditional “not social” customer care, is the fact that the conversations are public and could be read...

How an automotive company could change core business

This post was originated as a practical continuation and as an integration to the previous “The automotive dealers haven’t changed core business yet” and for this reason it is necessary to make some clarifications. For 10 years, if even not more, they tell us the world has changed, or better by making a more careful analysis the world has always changed; in the last few years, however,...

The automotive dealers haven’t changed their core business yet

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Excited by the increasing data related to the 2017, there are, however, automotive dealer, multi-brand, and service operators who are sulky and whiny. Of course, a positive signal it’s better than a negative one but, as Catalano (italian comic actor), would say, those numbers hide some truths that many pretend not to see. Dealers complain about the reduction in margins, despite the closure of...

Digital Automotive: if you are too far ahead, you may risk to burn yourself

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The future is in the digital, actually, it is the present; if your company isnÕt ready to ride the wave of the Digital automotive you are the dinosaur that is disappearing! Now this is a mantra repeated endlessly to the point that someone wonders: “could it be real what they go on telling us in every meeting?” Good question … but maybe not! Only because “everybody” says...

The list of the most read posts of 2016 on Automotive Space

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Also this year we like to publish the list of most read posts of Automotive Space. You can see there are more differences from the last post on the most read posts in 2015. For this reason we can confirm that Automotive Space doesn’t aim the last news. Unfortunately from one year we are publishing a fewer number of post because we haven’t abroad correspondents…be patient; we are working...

Happy Birthday Automotive Space for your 5 years

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On 10 January 2011, due to the increasing internet traffic coming from abroad, after only four months from start-up, we decided to create a blog dedicated to international readers; was born Automotive Space International! Totally in English welcomes the posts with international level which have already been published on Automotive Space. Automotive Space does not tell of product or testing, but marketing,...

Outsourcing in the automotive: does the abuse hurt?

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I’’ve already largely expressed my opinion about the growing precariousness management in the automotive field, which finds its highest expressions in the outsourcing. It was a year ago…. We were convinced that some strategic position couldn’t be the subject of outsourcing and that others, even these strategic ones, during the start-up and re-engineering, could be optimized through the outsourcing. Then,...

Failures and lotto draw…

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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...

“Inflated” spare parts prices an anomaly only in Italy?

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Very often, auto parts wholesalers buy from the manufacturers (even from notable brands) at discounts that in some cases, due to bonuses and incentives, reach 70/80%. In the supply chain there are two other steps, the parts dealer and the mechanic, before reaching the final customer. The three steps are required since the vast majority of service centers are small establishments that cannot keep large...

Automotive, August 2011: STOP spitting out such nonsense!

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Italian Market, August 2011: of the 70.307 total vehicles registered, more than 42% (29.929) have been matriculated during the last… 3 days of the month. From January 1st more than the 35% of the italian total registrations were developed in the last 72 hours of each month! Let us understand this strange phenomenon. Some manufacturers contacted to give an explanation for this strange phenomenon,...