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Wed 16 Jan 2019 11:35
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - WessexFleet

Hi everyone,

I am the content writer for a motoring website; for which I have been working on a recent article around the biggest Italian car manufacturers, their origins and what makes them different.

My aim was to make the article fun, interesting and engaging. I was, therefore, hoping to gain some thoughts and feedback from motoring enthusiasts, such as those in this forum community.

Link now deleted.)


Your thoughts and feedback welcome.

Kind regards,

Craig

Edited by Avant on 17/01/2019 at 00:35

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 11:55
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - badbusdriver

So "carleasespecialoffers" is the motoring website you write for and you are doing a piece on Italian manufacturers?, really?, do you take us for fools?

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 12:27
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - WessexFleet

Hi badbusdriver,

Not at all. "carleasespecialoffers" is the domain name for our company's website. The company being Wessex Fleet.

I've written a blog article of the 5 best Italian brands as a starter for looking into the biggest European manufacturers - which is a relevant topic to current political affairs.

As you are all not "fools", I was hoping for genuine feedback regarding the content of the article itself - there is no offers, deals or prices listed in this article. Purely for entertainment purposes rather than sales.

Kind regards,

Craig

Edited by WessexFleet on 16/01/2019 at 12:28

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 12:42
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - oldroverboy.

Hi badbusdriver,

Not at all. "carleasespecialoffers" is the domain name for our company's website. The company being Wessex Fleet.

I've written a blog article of the 5 best Italian brands as a starter for looking into the biggest European manufacturers - which is a relevant topic to current political affairs.

As you are all not "fools", I was hoping for genuine feedback regarding the content of the article itself - there is no offers, deals or prices listed in this article. Purely for entertainment purposes rather than sales.

Kind regards,

Craig

And the free advertising too, methinks...

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 12:44
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - Engineer Andy

Agreed. 'Tis the season for spamming.

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 13:23
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - FP

And he wants (unpaid) help to do his job - journalism.

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 13:29
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - alan1302

As you are all not "fools", I was hoping for genuine feedback regarding the content of the article itself - there is no offers, deals or prices listed in this article. Purely for entertainment purposes rather than sales.

Kind regards,

Craig

Any post like this on a selling site is to increase sales - if it's not then why put a link after each make to show the best deals? At least be honest.

You say it's about the best 5 Italian car brands...but other than Lancia...who else is there? So seems more like a list of Italian car brands and nothing more.

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 13:37
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - madf

As you are all not "fools", I was hoping for genuine feedback regarding the content of the article itself - there is no offers, deals or prices listed in this article. Purely for entertainment purposes rather than sales.

Kind regards,

Craig

Any post like this on a selling site is to increase sales - if it's not then why put a link after each make to show the best deals? At least be honest.

You say it's about the best 5 Italian car brands...but other than Lancia...who else is there? So seems more like a list of Italian car brands and nothing more.

Fiat

Ferrari

Lancia

Maserati

And then I struggle (All owned by Fiat I think)

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 14:00
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - Miniman777

Um, Alfa Romeo?

Personally, would touch a Fiat/Alfa and cant afford a Ferrari/Maserati. Haha.

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 18:12
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - madf

Um, Alfa Romeo?

Personally, would touch a Fiat/Alfa and cant afford a Ferrari/Maserati. Haha.

Err yes.

Also owned by Fiat..

The coming recession is going to decimate non electric car makers.. Ford and Fiat being two of the more notable..

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 14:54
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - Avant

"....there is (sic) no offers, deals or prices listed in this article. Purely for entertainment purposes rather than sales.'

If that were true, there wouldn't be a sentence at the end of three of the five sections on the lines of 'If you want to see what leasing offers we have on Fiat (/Alfa / Maserati) cars, please click here' ?

I will leave this up for the rest of today, so that people can see what we're talking about, and then I'll remove the link.

Other organisations pay good money to advertise on here. I can see no good reason why you should get it free, other than the sheer desperation involved in trying to get anyone to lease a Fiat.

Avant (moderator)

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 20:30
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - 72 dudes

Other organisations pay good money to advertise on here. I can see no good reason why you should get it free, other than the sheer desperation involved in trying to get anyone to lease a Fiat.

Avant (moderator)

Ah yes, from my Marketing days - the constant struggle of how to make the Marketing budget go further. That's it - free PR!!!

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 19:21
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - Leif
I avoid Italian products. I had several stove to coffee makers made in Italy made by several companies. In one case the welded on spout fell off. In another case the welded on handle fell off. And in another case the welded on top fell off. They do make lovely panettone and other food stuffs though. Yum.
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Wed 16 Jan 2019 20:29
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - Brit_in_Germany

Very happy with my Giulia Veloce.

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Thu 17 Jan 2019 02:33
Top 5 Italian Car Brands - edlithgow

I dunno how leasing works in any detail, but I'd assume

(a) You don't actually own it

(b) You don't have to fix it

(c) You don't have to consider depreciation.

I'd have thought, therefore, that Italian cars (which I'm told are quite nice when they work) and leasing went pretty well together, no?

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