gey guys,

t talked to several serious dealers i know personally about that theme.
all of them said it would be the end of the company if they would do their own boxter, so to say.
they will survive that is for sure. and for the wild animals that sheer for raising stock values they bought maserati. a company that has the potential to push over 20.000 cars into the world market every year. they keep ferrari super exclusive, they have maserati to fight porsche and satisfy their investors.
and a quite interesting rumor is this; volkswagen is going to buy ferrari. and ferrari is going to buy alfa romeo with the money from wolfsburg. they would stay super-autarc (not like lambo, and no ferrari-engine would ever find it's way into the new pheaton). so ferrari would be the most extreme, the most exclusive and the most widespread sportscar company in the world. because with the alfa range they would fight against the boxter, the TT and stuff like that.
http://www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk/happenings/2002/december/alfa.asp

and, BTW, they earned a lot of money with the enzo:
http://www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk/happenings/2002/september/enzo.asp
http://www.ferrariownersclub.co.uk/happenings/2002/october/extra_enzos.asp

wish you all a succesfull day!

best, floren