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Clicking for cars: how digital and mobile are changing the auto industry
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The local car industry had its best year ever last year, with a 12 percent increase in new car sales. And the growth looks set to continue, with 750,000 New Zealanders planning to buy a car over the next year. But the way they’re buying them has changed significantly in recent years and, according to Nielsen data, 78 percent are reaching for their keyboards to help them make a purchase decision. PLUS: what the rise of mobile search means for advertisers.

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Hyundai enlists a surprising Kiwi test-driver to show off its Accent
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​When it comes to selling cars, there’s no substitute for getting bums on seats and letting potential customers get a whiff of that new car smell. And Hyundai and Shine have put a few different bums on the seats of its Accent model, including that of a truck driver, in an effort to inspire other Kiwis to take it for a hoon themselves. Plus: Hyundai’s rise through the reputational ranks.

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The ultimate marketing machine: how BMW reclaimed premium pole position
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In the battle of the premium cars, New Zealand is something of an anomaly, because unlike most markets around the world Audi has been top of the pile for the past six years. But by rethinking its marketing tactics, tailoring its products and comms to suit the New Zealand market, standing up to HQ and targeting new customers, BMW managed to reclaim the throne last year.

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It’s Sweden vs. Germany as Volvo plays up its novelty value
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Ze Germans have created an extremely valuable country brand based around reliability, precision and quality design and engineering, which has certainly helped the likes of VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz conquer the world’s roads. But Sweden is trying to find its niche, and in New Zealand it’s doing it with a ballsy new campaign for the new Volvo V40 hatchback that takes aim at the established German car brands and taps into the desire to be ‘Über Different’.

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Supreme + Automotive: Volkswagen New Zealand
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We’ll be showcasing all the winners of the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards on StopPress over the coming days. And we’re kicking things off with big winner Volkswagen, which invested heavily in indigenous research and advertising to better connect the brand with Kiwis, launched some very successful new products and quickly went from ‘niche street to main street’.

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Lexus and Saatchi & Saatchi merge man and machine in Kokoro Wo Komete campaign
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Toyota’s luxury brand Lexus has a tough battle on its hands in the prestige class, facing as it does the European goliaths of Audi, BMW and Mercedes. But it’s aiming to reinvigorate the Japanese brand’s challenger spirit with the launch of a classy new campaign out of Saatchi & Saatchi called ‘Kokoro Wo Komete’ or ‘Soul Meets Machine.’

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She’s a beast: Pine Tree shacks up with SsangYong
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Korean carmaker SsangYong had 300 percent growth in New Zealand last year. And it’s confident that signing up one of New Zealand’s great hardmen, Colin Meads, as the face of its new Actyon Sports Ute will help maintain that level of growth in 2012. 

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Republik embraces America, revels in triple automotive whammee
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After moving its media strategy and buying to Republik almost 18 months ago, big US brands Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge (CJD) have now, in another blow to previous account holders .99, formally appointed the agency to take care of its creative business after working together on a project basis for the past 10 months.