There will be a “disruptive” change for car dealers as well?
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 realizing that something completely different is emerging, as digital photography was for Kodak.
The “digital photography” in the automotive field will be self-driving cars, which will probably change radically the concept of buying a car and moving around.
The car will no longer be, perhaps, an eager object of possession, but it will be a mean… Read the rest
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BMW
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Cadillac
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Chevrolet
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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DS
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Fiat
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Ford
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Remember those great Volkswagen ads?
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Honda
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Hyundai
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What do I have to expect if I choose a hydrogen-powered car?
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Infiniti
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4860 – Auction Milano Autoclassica
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Insurance
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The automotive dealers haven’t changed their core business yet
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Jaguar
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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Jeep
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FCA: the future after Marchionne
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Kia
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Lamborghini
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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Lexus
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Automotive factories, back to the roots?
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Maserati
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Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics and the Making of an Automobile Empire
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Mazda
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Interview with Wojciech Halarewicz, CEO of Mazda Italy – 2nd Part
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Mazzanti
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The spy shots of the new Mazzanti Evantra
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Mclaren
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4860 – Auction Milano Autoclassica
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Mercedes
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Dallara – It’s a beautiful story
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Mini
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Mitsubishi
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Electrical: one step forward and three back. Long live hypocrisy!
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Mopar
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Opel
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Peugeot
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Porsche
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Qoros
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Ram
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Renault
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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Rolls Royce
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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Seat
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At last! Up!+Citigo+Mii surpasses Panda
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Skoda
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When the eastern wind…
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Subaru
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Time stays, carmakers go.
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Suzuki
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What do I have to expect if I choose a hybrid car? (Hybrid series)
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- Seventh commandment: you shall not steal (the outboard motor...)
Tata
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Jaguar: new models and engines
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- Fiat World: Anno Domini 2013
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Tesla
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There will be a “disruptive” change for car dealers as well?
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- Self-driving even at sea
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Toyota
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What do Toyoda, Fehrenbach and Vettel have in common? The good sense!
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- What do I have to expect if I choose a hydrogen-powered car?
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Triumph
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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Volkswagen
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Turin and the art of coachbuilders (1946-1980)
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- What do I have to expect if I choose an electric car?
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Volvo
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Yamaha
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Seventh commandment: you shall not steal (the outboard motor…)
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Marine
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 and energy self-sufficiency are fundamental for those who sail; endothermic engines, with the possibility to charge batteries using the alternators, guarantee both the things. We have to say that who sails, specially those who use a sailboat,...Electric Cars
What do Toyoda, Fehrenbach and Vettel have in common? The good sense!
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...
