John Elkann: “Some of our most iconic productions were the offspring of our Endurance cars”

By way of introduction, for our readers who are not familiar with your career, you are at 45 years old the heir of the Agnelli family, one of the greatest industrial dynasties in Europe, the President of Ferrari, but also the Chairman of Stellantis, resulting from the merger of the Fiat-Chrysler and PSA groups Peugeot -Citroën-Opel. Also, because you in some way embody the image of a young king destined from his earliest childhood to access the highest responsibilities, I would like to begin this meeting with a double question: was the passion for automobiles hereditary in your case or did it come with time? Then, in France, we have an expression which says that “ In passion, it's the dream that counts »: what would yours be?

In my case, I think I had both. I had the opportunity to grow up surrounded by car brands with incredible histories. It was a trip that really benefited me from fueling my passion for the “product” as we we design it within our company with passion. A few months ago, I visited a group factory in Poland where I did a worker internship when I was still a student, twenty-five years ago. The factory director surprised me by giving me a photo of myself taken during this internship. It brought to the surface so many emotions about the fact that already twenty-five years have passed, that such