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This is having a huge impact on brands that expanded into China in the last decade, like we talked a lot about on our Porsche episode.
But China is only 7% of Ferrari's sales, down from 10% at its peak.
Now, Porsche, on the other hand, China was 33% of their deliveries a few years ago, which has collapsed all the way to 15% and continues to fall.
So the question then is, is Ferrari any less desirable today in China than it was five years ago?
And does it fill a different enough job to be done than the domestic supercars for them to sort of weather that storm?
I think my answers on this are there are domestic supercars in China.
They're still not Ferrari level in terms of desirability, certainly not brand heritage.
Unless there's a sentiment change where people in China only want to buy domestic supercars, I mean, that's sort of a risk to them.
But I think the thing that you're buying, the signal you're trying to send when you buy a Ferrari is not really at risk.
The job to be done by an EV, I kind of keep coming back to this, is completely different than the job to be done by owning a Ferrari.