Marketing Automobiles
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Since the dawn of the motoring age, the car has been a vehicle for intertwined ideas of freedom, success and individualism. All advertising approaches, from Bernbach's classic Beetle ads to Renault's Nicole and Papa to Rolls Royce's electric clock, have taken this as their starting point. But today, every time-honoured pillar of car culture is under attack.
Cars used to be possessions - but now they are more likely to be rented. They used to be individual, but today many are shared. They used...