indeed, quite interesting francois

but IMO those are no good news.

- the only reason maserati is being split from ferrari is that maserati is a loss-maker and ferrari now gets dolled up for the IPO.

- leach is a good man, quite a car guy. same with axed FIAT auto boss demel.

- ferrari is going the BMW way. BMW wanted to grow without expanding their product range below the 3 series and bought rover. it didn't work as we know. now there's the 1 series. so we'll see ferrari's 1 series some time soon, i guess.

- i see similarites regarding the dealership as well. all BMW partners had to costly integrate rover... as far as i know, ferrari really put a lot of pressure on their dealers, like "we deliver you a 360 only if you also take 2 maser coupés". so a lot of masers are in the market just because the dealers wanted to sell ferraris. i wonder how much pressure alfa can generate?