PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s incoming CEO Carlos Tavares hustled around the Geneva auto show this week in a way that didn’t suggest he was taking one of the toughest jobs in the auto industry.

Attending his first car show since joining the French carmaker “is very pleasant,” Tavares said while rushing to Peugeot’s display area, where electronic music throbbed and the 308 hatchback — the 2014 European Car of the Year — was prominently displayed. “I’m a lucky guy.”