Luca Cordero di Montezemolo does not shy away from(回避，躲避) a challenge. The turbocharged(精力充沛的；增压的) Italian was Ferrari’s chairman for more than two decades (and led its racing-car division to victory in 19 Formula One(一级方程式赛车) championships). He was also chairman of Fiat, Italy’s biggest carmaker, headed Confindustria, the Italian business lobby, and orchestrated(精心策划，组织) Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics. But his latest ambition might be the boldest yet of his career: he wants to overhaul(彻底改革，检修) Germany’s crisis-ridden(危机四伏的) railway industry by bringing Italo, the Italian high-speed rail operator he co-founded, into the market.
卢卡·科尔德罗·迪·蒙特泽莫洛不回避挑战。这位精力充沛的意大利人曾担任法拉利董事长二十余年（并带领其赛车部门赢得19项一级方程式锦标赛冠军）。他还担任过意大利最大汽车制造商菲亚特董事长，领导过意大利商业游说组织意大利工业总联合会，并策划了罗马申办2024年奥运会。但他最新的雄心可能是其职业生涯中最大胆的：他想通过将共同创立的意大利高铁运营商Italo引入市场，来彻底改革危机四伏的德国铁路行业。
By 2028 Italo wants its new service to link 18 cities in Germany along two main routes: Munich-Cologne-Dortmund and Munich-Berlin-Hamburg. It plans to invest €3.6bn ($4.2bn) in the venture(企业；风险项目), which will include the purchase of 30 high-speed trains from Siemens, a German engineering conglomerate(企业集团), with the option to buy 14 more. Unlike the fiery(火红的；激烈的) red carriages it uses in Italy, those deployed in Germany will be a sensibly conservative(明智保守的) blue.
到2028年，Italo希望其新服务能连接德国18个城市，沿两条主要路线：慕尼黑-科隆-多特蒙德和慕尼黑-柏林-汉堡。它计划在这项事业中投资36亿欧元（42亿美元），包括从德国工程集团西门子购买30列高速列车，并可选择再购买14列。与在意大利使用的火红色车厢不同，在德国部署的车厢将是明智保守的蓝色。
Colours aside, the vision is largely the same. “We want to replicate in Germany what we did in Italy,” Mr Montezemolo tells The Economist.(“我们想在德国复制我们在意大利的做法，”蒙特泽莫洛先生告诉《经济学人》。) Ferrovie dello Stato(意大利国家铁路公司), Italy’s state-owned railway firm, fought tooth and nail(竭尽全力地斗争) to prevent Italo, founded in 2006, from disrupting(颠覆，扰乱) its business. Nevertheless, Mr Montezemolo and his co-founders prevailed(获胜，占上风) in launching their service in 2012. Rail prices in Italy fell by some 40% over the following seven years.
撇开颜色不谈，愿景大致相同。“我们想在德国复制我们在意大利的做法，”蒙特泽莫洛先生告诉《经济学人》。意大利国有铁路公司Ferrovie dello Stato竭尽全力阻止成立于2006年的Italo破坏其业务。尽管如此，蒙特泽莫洛先生及其联合创始人还是在2012年成功推出了他们的服务。在随后的七年里，意大利的铁路票价下降了约40%。