In December last year, then Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo made it clear that he was happy to take questions on anything over dinner – so long as they didn’t concern the top job at Stellantis, vacated 24 hours earlier by Carlos Tavares.
I found a way to ask him anyway, and he certainly had prepared an answer. He took it well – much better than what I thought was a more innocuous question about whether retro design was a strategy Renault would be continuing with.