The car market is in really bad shape. We have reached the point where Stellantis shares have lost 15% on the stock market. We are facing one of the most important crises of the first European industry, a disaster that was already written in the facts and that arises from a combination of various factors: the idiocy of having thought that with the electric we could compete with the Chinese, and instead we rolled out a red carpet for them to make a mess like this; and the reduced consumption of cars among the new generations, having now become a means of transport that is no longer as iconic as it was in the past. Two pieces of evidence that have brought us this far.
But the thing that makes me dizzy from the right, as a liberal, is that these manager from the car they are considered stars, people with a salary of 37-38 million euros a year. They are like those big bankers who before 2007 told us where the world would end up, they bought branches galore and then what happened? Their banks failed.
I say it clearly: you’re a pain in the ass. Because I don’t want my money to be used either to save the banks or to save the automotive industries, which will be a disaster. Have the managers made a mess? Let them see it. The only one who understood where we were going and what we should do was called Marchionne. The only one who had the courage to say, for example, that the electric car was a gigantic folly.