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Benedetto Vigna

Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director, Ferrari

Search every verified Benedetto Vigna interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Benedetto Vigna, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Ferrari, participated in the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call in February 2026, where he discussed product personalization and supercar shipments as contributors to margin performance. During the call, he stated that Ferrari is the only luxury company able to offer sports cars with any propulsion type clients may desire, and noted that the order book for the company’s electric model includes first-time Ferrari buyers attracted by its electric architecture. In mid-2026, Vigna appeared in multiple interviews and a fireside chat, including sessions at Lake Como and GFOIS 2026. He discussed Ferrari’s sustainability efforts, saying that operational CO2 emissions have been cut by a factor of two in four years, with a goal of a tenfold reduction by 2030 compared to 2022. He also described the company’s challenge as balancing tradition and innovation to remain relevant to current and future generations. Reflecting on his prior career, he mentioned helping build a sensor business from zero to over $6 billion in annual revenue.

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“I like to say that the green is black. Green is black because the bottom line here on the right side of the bar of the P&L can be also black, not necessarily red. And how do you do this? I'll tell you a few things. You know that today in Ferrari to make the car we make and the number of car has been constantly increasing a little bit because we want to be exclusive. The emission of CO2 from our operation has been cut”

“I like to say that the green is black. Green is black because the bottom line here on the right side of the bar of the P&L can be also black, not necessarily red. And how do you do this? I'll tell you a few things. You know that today in Ferrari to make the car we make and the number of car has been constantly increasing a little bit because we want to be exclusive. The emission of CO2 from our operation has been cut”

“Look uh first of all I like your point. We invest a lot of money. We invest the right amount of money. We are foxed. We are disciplined. We use the capex in the right way. I think that uh we invest the right amount of money and this initiative this business initiative is in line with the profitability that we have also for other initiative in the same range. So when we use capex and use opex we use wisely”

“Now, with a clear target, by end of this decade, we will emit only 10% of what we were emitting in 2021, and we will cut the emission 20-25% in absolute term. So, this is a strong commitment. We believe in it, and we are working on it.”

“We selected to go this way. We said instead to make let's me say three model and do 10 car each we do 10 model we do three car each. the the multiplication is the same but we offer uniqueness of the what we do to our client clearly this is a drawback for us because we have to put more money R&D no doubt but we believe that if the client are the shield of our brand we need we need to do something special for them.”

“The story of free trade agreement between Europe and and and India. This is going to simplify also the way we we deal with India.”

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