Last year I worked on an advertising campaign for MAN Trucks .
MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) are market leaders in Europe but are trailing behind in Australia.
Through desktop research and general observation we discovered that many Australian buyers chose MAN because of its fuel efficiency. As fuel is the single biggest expense in operating a long-haul truck in Australia, it wasn’t surprising.
Fuel efficiency is taken for granted in Europe, where diesel prices are high and MAN are regarded as leaders in fuel efficient technology.
This is understandable considering that in 1893 Rudolf Diesel worked with MAN to develop the first diesel engine – with fuel efficiency being a primary objective.
We developed five ads in the campaign, all with the express purpose of promoting the MAN fuel efficiency story.
By simply talking about fuel consumption we challenged the consumer, and the industry, to reassess their thinking.
This simultaneously repositioned the others manufactures as being less fuel efficient.
