The only places you could traditionally get a screaming Ferrari engine was to buy a Ferrari or a Maserati. During the recent Ferrari Q1 earnings call the most significant revelation from the event was that Ferrari plans to stop supplying Maserati with engines. The Ferrari engine is a major selling point for the Maserati brand.
Maserati has announced a slick new limited-edition car that is called the Ghibli Ribelle. Only 200 units will be made in the production run and the special edition can be purchased with all available engine options. That means a 275hp diesel, 350hp gas, or 430hp gas engine.
If you've had your eye on the Maserati Levante Trofeo SUV but the $170,000 price tag was a bit too much for your budget, consider yourself lucky. At this week's Goodwood Festival of Speed, Maserati announced a "budget friendly" model in the form of the 2019 Levante GTS, which sacrifices 40 horsepower for a price that starts at roughly $120,000.
Maserati plans to take on the upcoming Tesla Roadster with a pure battery-electric coupe and convertible, the Maserati Alfieri, capable of 0-62 mph in around 2 seconds. Unveiled as part of Fiat Chrysler Automobile's new five year plan, the new Alfieri will be a four model line-up offering both electric and gas powertrain options.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles may have inked a deal on autonomous cars with Waymo, but it's looking to electrification and a Tesla Roadster-rivaling Maserati halo car to coax profit out of a predicted tough few years ahead. The automaker plans ten new fully battery-electric vehicles, six of which will be spread across its Fiat and Maserati brands, and four in its China joint venture, launching by 2022.
Maserati's first SUV was hardly a slowpoke, but the twin-turbo V6 is getting two more cylinders with the new 2019 Levante Trofeo V8. Taking its rightful place at the top of the Levante pile, the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8 brings a hefty 590 horsepower and 538 lb-ft. of torque to the party.
Maserati's Levante SUV hasn't exactly been blowing up the sales charts for Maserati. The automaker has plans for a hotter version of the SUV that might make those lusting after a Ferrari SUV whip out their wallets. Spy shots of the 2019 Maserati Levante GTS have turned up and the SUV is wearing less camo than other spy shots that have been seen.
When the "cutting edge" in automotive is electrification, what do you do if you're Maserati and your brand is wrapped up tight with the appeal of gasoline engines? That's the challenge facing the Italian automaker as it continues to carve out a space in the luxury performance high-end, and the question I posed to Reid Bigland, Head of Maserati and Alfa Romeo, this week at the LA Auto Show 2017. As you might expect, the answer is complicated.
Maserati has unveiled new images of the Maserati Ghibli GranLusso luxury sports car. The vehicle made its official world debut at the Chengdu Motorshow in China on August 25. The new ride will be available internationally and gets a refined design and technology inside. Part of the redesign is the new front bumper with chrome inserts and a front grill with chrome bars.
Maserati may have been slow to the electric car party, but going by its freshly-confirmed EV plans it'll make quite a splash. The company has announced that, sure enough, it intends to have an electric vehicle on the roads by 2020, and we now also know what that car will be. Turns out, Maserati has looked to its stunning Alfieri concept coupe for design inspiration.
Italy's Maserati is one of a handful of luxury car makers that has been talking about jumping on the all-electric model bandwagon for a while now, but it looks like the Fiat Chrysler (FCA) brand is finally ready to commit. Maserati engineering head Roberto Fedeli told Car & Driver in an interview that they are planning to reveal their first EV by 2019 at the earliest, with production to start in 2020, and that the model would probably be a grand-touring coupe.
Just about every major car manufacturer in the world is working on an all-electric vehicle of some kind at this point, desperate not to get left behind by the likes of Tesla. This certainly includes a number of Europe's biggest luxury brands, like BMW, Mercedes, Aston Martin, and Jaguar. But now Italy seems to be finally coming around to the idea, as an electric sports car from Maserati could see the light of day in the next few years.