John Coletti
O. John Coletti is an American automobile engineer. He worked for the American automaker Ford Motor Company in the company's performance division, and later was the COO and president of EcoMotors International until his retirement on March 15, 2013.
He was responsible, as director of that company's Special Vehicle Team group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus SVT, SVT Contour, Ford F-150 Lightning and the Ford Mustang Cobra. He later spearheaded development and production of the Ford GT supercar.
Since retirement, he has been the managing director of Automotive Performance Partners.
Production vehicles programs under Coletti's leadership include:
Concept vehicle programs that were developed, but never saw production, include:
He is also credited with saving the rear wheel drive Mustang in the early 1990s, when it was to be eliminated for cost reasons. Coletti retired from SVT in 2004. He and his wife Judy are the parents of four children.
