Strategic Marketing Plan for McLaren 570S GT4 Launch

This assignment involves creating a strategic marketing plan for the launch of the McLaren 570S. The task requires an analysis of the current market, identification of target audiences, and development of unique selling propositions (USPs) to differentiate the 570S from competitors like Ferrari and Lamborghini. The plan should include detailed strategies for branding, digital marketing, public relations, partnerships, and customer engagement. Key performance indicators (KPIs) must be established to measure the success of the launch campaign. The ultimate goal is to ensure a successful market entry that enhances McLaren's brand image and captures significant market share in the luxury sports car segment.

Running Head: Marketing Management
McLaren
Marketing Management and Digital Communication

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Executive Summary
McLaren is known for producing sports and racing cars and their cars are included in the
premium range of cars. These are seen very rarely on the roads as their sales ratio is quite less
across the globe and the major reason is expensiveness of the cars. But as per the market research
survey conducted by the McLaren, it was found that the demand of the sports and racing is
emerging in Australian market. After reviewing this, McLaren decided to introduce their new
model McLaren 570GT in the Australian market in order to enhance the demand of their cars as
well as to enhance their sales. To convert this into reality, marketing plan will be discussed in
this report with the effective techniques such as SWOT analysis, competitor’s analysis, and
mission, etc. of the organization in terms of launching the demand of the new model of McLaren
cars.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
Competitor Analysis................................................................................................................................5
Mission........................................................................................................................................................6
Marketing Objectives..................................................................................................................................7
Financial Objective......................................................................................................................................7
Marketing Mix.............................................................................................................................................9
Digital marketing plan...............................................................................................................................10
Action Plan................................................................................................................................................11
Implementation and Control measures......................................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................13
References.................................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Under this report, marketing plan will be discussed in order to promote the new outlet opened in
Melbourne, Australia. This outlet was commenced first in 2015 and the McLaren 570GT is the
new model launched by the McLaren Corporation. As per the market research and the demand of
the McLaren’s cars in the Australian market, corporation has decided to introduce the new model
i.e. McLaren 570GT in the Australian market and for the same, various functions of marketing
plan will be discussed and evaluated. The basic components of marketing plan will be discussed
under this report in order to analyse the marketing plan of the McLaren’s new model to be
launched in the Australian market. SWOT analysis, competitor’s analysis will be performed in
order to determine the strengths, weaknesses, etc. of the McLaren and its primary competitors’.
Apart from this, McLaren’s primary objective in terms of the financial as well as marketing will
also be discussed in order to build the strong marketing plan. Company’s mission, marketing mix
strategies and the action plan in order to achieve the desired marketing and financial objectives
will also be discussed. Additionally, implementation and the controlling methods of the
marketing plan will also be covered under the report in terms of McLaren cars.

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SWOT Analysis
Strengths
 The biggest strength present with
McLaren Corporation is their exclusive
innovative techniques that made their
cars unique and qualitative (Aaker,
2010).
 Distinctive manufacturing techniques
used to produce which helps the
organization to increase the demand of
their cars.
 Most reputed brand in terms of racing
cars (Helms & Nixon, 2010).
 Big part of revenues is spent on R&D
department to introduce innovative
techniques for producing qualitative
cars.
Weaknesses
 Due to high price of the cars, it
becomes non-affordable option.
 Lack of retailers as huge investment is
required (Armstrong, et. al., 2015).
 Due to rare availability of the cars,
authorised repairing shops are not
available (Brandt, Cazzaniga & Hann,
2011).
 As these cars are customised hence, re-
selling of cars is quite difficult.
 Their competitors have reliable as well
as affordable cars’ option too.
 Lack of demand of racing cars across
the globe leads to declining rate of
profits for organization.
Opportunities
 Manufacturing affordable as well as
new class of cars for middle class
consumers.
 Adaptation of adequate and less
Threats
 Going into small variants and lower-
class cars will reduce the prestige of its
unique and exclusive model.
 This may provide a chance to another

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expensive technology will help the
McLaren to produce competitive
products.
 Making consumer oriented cars except
the racing cars (Cornelissen &
Cornelissen, 2017).
 Producing reliable products.
company to take over the position of
McLaren in the global market.
 Producing lower class cars will increase
their revenues but economy of the
organization will get decrease.
Competitor Analysis
McLaren Corporation is the racing car manufacturing and distributing company across the globe.
In terms of producing racing cars with unique designs, no company exists but Porsche,
Koenigsegg and Pagani are the three competitors of McLaren Honda Corporation. Their cars are
basically used in Formula One team based in England. Porsche is known for producing all types
of cars i.e. sports, sedan as well as SUV’s hence, demand of their cars is high in comparison to
the McLaren’s cars. Koenigsegg Automotive AB is also known for producing sports cars but
McLaren’s cars are much more qualitative in comparison with the Koenigsegg Automotive cars
(Czepiel & Kerin, 2012).
McLaren is planning to launch new model in Australian market through reviewing the demand of
the McLaren’s cars are quite high in Australian market. The new model launched by the
McLaren in Australian market is McLaren 570GT and the speciality of the new model is
beautiful and the interior cabin is designed as per the modern technology. Apart from this,
rotatory switches on the centre console and the push buttons in the McLaren 570GT helps the

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organization to gain the competitive advantage in the market. These are some of the features that
make the identity of the McLaren cars unique and expensive from its competitors (Fischer, et.
al., 2011).
Mission
McLaren is planning to launch 570GT in the Australian market and this decision is taken on the
basis of market research conducted by the McLaren to analyse the demand of the cars
manufactured by them. IN recent years, huge demand is coming from the Australian market in
terms of racing and sports cars and McLaren’s expensive car’s demand is also raised there. In
order to enhance their productivity as well as the market presence in the global market, McLaren
has planned to promote their new model in the Australian market through various unique and
adequate promotional strategies. Primary objective behind launching the 570GT in the Australian
market is to fulfil the demand of the consumers over there. This model is a two seat’s capacity
and in the recent years, Australian people have adopted the trend of using sports cars ad
especially overseas company’s cars, hence; it increases the chances for McLaren in terms of
achievement of goals and objectives in relation to the increase in the sales and the revenues
(Greer & Ferguson, 2011).
McLaren has developed the strategies under which these customers are being targeted who are
capable enough to afford McLaren’s cars. Projective techniques are also adopted in order to
enhance the demand of their cars especially of the new model which is about to be launched in
Australian market (Gregor & Hevner, 2013).

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Marketing Objectives
 The primary marketing objective of the McLaren Corporation defines the increase the
sales as well as in the revenues for the company. Sports and racing car’s market is
continuously increasing in Australia and this is the major objective behind launching of
the McLaren 570GT in Australia (Helms & Nixon, 2010).
 With the adequate marketing mix techniques, organization has developed the strategies in
order to achieve the objectives to enhance the sales and the revenues of the McLaren in
Australia through promoting the advanced features of the new model. The new model
will also help the organization to provide adequate competitive advantage in the global
market (Johnston & Bate, 2013).
 Apart from these, organization has involved the customer observations, focusing on
affordable group of people through Ethnographies strategy. Under this strategy, cultures
of the people and society are explored in terms of the curiosity in relevance with the new
product launched in the Australian market.
 These all objectives will be included in the marketing plan of the McLaren 570GT in
order to achieve the adequate position in the global market with the view to increase the
sales for enhancing the demand of the new model and with the objective to fulfil the
consumer’s expectations (Kim & Hyun, 2011).
Financial Objective
 Adaptation of the adequate pricing strategy is order to reduce the cost of the production
for setting the affordable price of the new model to be launched in the Australian market.

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Adaptation of adequate pricing strategy helps the organization to enhance the demand of
the new car launched in the Australian market.
 Apart from the pricing strategies, organization need to enhance the sales and profitability
and for this, they need to adopt adequate promotional strategies within the targeted
segment of people so that positive results could be obtained (Klein, 2016).
 In the initial period of McLaren’s expansion in the Australian market and the launching
of the new model, positive demand for the car and the reasonable sales will be expected
in relevance with the expensiveness of the car (Mohammed, Rashid & Tahir, 2014).

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Marketing Mix
This is the marketing tool which helps the organization to understand the features of the product
through which consumer’s need could be fulfilled. There are various aspects of this tool which
are discussed below:
 Price: This is the strategy for which McLaren Corporation needs to take care of because
McLaren is known for producing high class racing, sports and expensive cars. This is the
major reason for their less sales and profits and this becomes the strength for the
organization which makes them distinctive from its primary competitors. In the market
research program organized by McLaren, it was analysed that the demand in terms of
sports, racing and expensive cars in Australia has been increased in recent years.
Reviewing the sales figures of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, it can also be assumed the
same as from 2016 to 2017, sales of sports cars have been increased from 14% to 26.3%.
Taking this as the opportunity, McLaren needs to adopt adequate pricing strategy in order
to attract the adequate consumers towards the McLaren 570GT.
 Distribution: Through exclusive retailers, distribution of the McLaren’s new model as
well as the existing models will be sold across the Australia (Akaka, Vargo & Lusch,
2013).
 Promotion: Aggressive social media as well as the exclusive electronic medium’s
channels will be used in order to promote the 570GT across the Australia. Sponsorship of
events, advertisement of the car through auto-expo, auto-shows, etc. could also be done
as these are the best mediums to promote the exclusive and expensive cars.

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 Customer Service: This is the biggest weakness for the McLaren across the globe and
this is due to lack of authorised service centres. Due to less number of cars across the
globe, service centres are not being developed at every place and this becomes the
reasons for decreasing demand in their cars. As various innovative and exclusive features
are being fitted in the new model launched by McLaren, providing customer service after
delivering the car will help them to build trust amongst the consumers for the
organization. And this will also leads to increase in the demand of their cars across the
Australia as well as in other countries of the globe (Ang, Benischke & Doh, 2015).
Digital marketing plan
As this is the crucial part of marketing plan, McLaren will use their existing digital mediums for
promoting the McLaren 570GT in the Australian market. McLaren can use their official website,
by opening bookings through their authorised dealers in Australia, using social media platforms,
etc. People will be able to book their piece online as well as through offline medium and the test
drives for the cars can also be done in the same manner. Apart from this, many efforts are not
required by the organization as they are already included in the premium class brand hence;
existing digital mediums of the organization can be used for the promotion of the new model to
be launched in Australia.

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Action Plan
Initial marketing objective for McLaren Corporation is to increase their overall sales through
launching their new model i.e. 570GT in Australian market. To achieve this objective,
organization needs to develop adequate plans with adaptation of effective promotional strategies.
The second marketing objective for McLaren Corporation is to gain competitive advantage in the
global market and to achieve this objective, organization needs to focus on product’s
characteristics and adaptation of special tool i.e. marketing mix will be helpful.
In order to fulfil the customer’s expectations, organization has practiced certain programs such as
analysing customer’s observations through which the new model launched by the company could
fulfil those consumer’s observations.
The first financial objective for the McLaren group is enhancing the demand of their cars and
this could be done with the help of appropriate promotional strategies.
To increase the profitability of the organization, adequate pricing strategy needs to be
implemented in the workplace in order to control the wastages of the available resources with the
organization as well as to reduce the cost of the production (Angeloska-Dichovska &
Mirchevska, 2017).
In order to increase the profitability of the organization in the initial time period within the
Australian region, organization needs to take help of various discount and attractive offers
strategies through which consumers could be attracted towards the organization.

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Implementation and Control measures
For implementing this marketing plan in order to promote the McLaren 570GT in the Australian
market, adequate planning needs to be done. An alternative plan should also be made from the
perception of this marketing plan fails. This could be due to wrong interpretation made in terms
of the environmental conditions of the Australian market. Appropriate mixture of advertisement
and promotional strategies needs to be adopted for successful introduction of the new model of
McLaren car. The special and exclusive features of the McLaren 570GT should also be
considered as the most crucial aspects of the marketing plan. This will make the marketing plan
more strengthen and it will help the organization to gain the competitive advantage as well as the
increase in the sales and profitability could also be expected (Mohammed, Rashid & Tahir,
2014).
In terms of the control measures, evaluation of all techniques and strategies will be reviewed and
their impacts would also be reviewed to determine their effects. This step is crucial in terms of
evaluating the errors present in the strategies involved in the organizational marketing plan.

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Conclusion
Above strategies could be used in order to promote the McLaren 570GT in the Australian market
in order to enhance the overall revenues of McLaren Corporation. It has been concluded that
these strategies are quite crucial in terms of promoting the sports car in the Australian market.
Marketing mix, action plan, marketing objectives, financial objectives, vision of the McLaren,
etc. were discussed in the above report in order to make a strengthen marketing plan for
McLaren 570GT.

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