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Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT Review
Backseat branding is easy. Porsche? Sports cars. Ford? Sedans. Hummer? Assault rifles. Maserati? Who knows? The company likes to promote a philosophical connection to its distinguished racing...
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Maserati Quattroporte Automatica Review
Since its introduction in 2004, the fifth gen Maserati Quattroporte has been a sedan poised on the brink of greatness. Its fatal flaw: a clunky automated manual transmission ill-suited to the model’s...
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2008 Maserati GT Review
Thanks to modern speed enforcement, the idea of leaping large continents in a hugely fast, spectacularly comfortable car has become something of a quaint notion. And yet, upscale manufacturers still...
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Review: 2009 Maserati GranTurismo S
Walking towards the Maserati GranTurismo S, I felt like a teenager trying not to stare at a Playmate's breasts. While the "base" GranTurismo's elegant lines, dignified proportions and powerful stance...
View ArticleFCA Beginning Maserati SUV Production In 2015
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne announced this week production of the Maserati Levante SUV will begin at the automaker’s Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy beginning in 2015. Reuters...
View ArticleMarchionne’s Grand Vision For FCA Faces Hard Financial Road To Success
Though Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne’s five-year plan announced this week may be ambitious, analysts are raising questions about how the plan will be funded — and how much will be...
View ArticleMaserati Sells As Many Units Through June 2014 As It Had For All Of 2013
Maserati may have had a slow 2013 as far as sales go, but the Italian brand is on pace to sell within the first half of 2014 as many cars as it had in the last year. Reuters reports CEO Harald Wester...
View ArticleConnected-Vehicle Tech Takes Center Stage At 2015 CES
You’ve seen the 2016 Chevrolet Volt at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show; now see what else automotive-related is debuting at the annual tech show in Las Vegas. Whether you have an iPhone 6 Plus or a...
View ArticleMotorcars, Manhattan and Money
It’s impossible to visit Manhattan without noticing wealth and privilege. Though I’m loathe to use the P word as it’s been corrupted by politics, how else can you describe someone driving a S Class...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler Reportedly Showing Dealers Impossibly Fun Cars That We May...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles may be showing off a Dodge Barracuda convertible, a next-generation Charger, Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk and a Grand Wagoneer — they probably put root beer in the fountains...
View ArticleMaserati May Have Falsified Monthly Sales Before FCA Went Public
According to a report by Automotive News, Maserati North America may have falsified nearly half their sales in December 2014 and an undisclosed amount for other months through a demonstration car...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler Rebuffs Claims of Falsifying Sales
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Thursday released a statement strongly denying claims made by a Illinois dealer that the automaker was strong-arming its dealers into reporting bogus sales and illegally...
View ArticleJeep Pickup, Jeep Compass and Jeep Renegade: All The Things We’ll Probably...
On Wednesday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne will update investors on his long-term plans and fourth-quarter profits — namely, how many Jeeps it sold — during his scheduled earnings...
View ArticleFCA’s Friendly Giant Given Keys to Alfa Romeo, Maserati
Look up, waaaay up. Human redwood and former Canadian junior hockey star Reid Bigland adds yet another set of responsibilities to his resume thanks to an executive shuffle at FCA. Bigland replaces...
View ArticleSergio Marchionne: Maybe EVs are the Future, Who Knows, What the Hell…
Shortly after publicly dissing Tesla for the umpteenth time and speculating that electric cars aren’t the future, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne now says he wants to make an electric...
View ArticleWedge Wonders – the Influence of the Angular Era in Automotive Design
Though it may seem hard to believe, we’re only a month away from celebrating the 50th anniversary of the start of the Wedge Era in automotive designs. To those of us who still think of the Countach as...
View ArticleSergio Warms up to Electrification, Even As FCA’s Light-duty Diesels Get the...
It’s no secret that hybrids and fully electric vehicles are about as appealing to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne as a crisp, button-up shirt. The FCA boss once famously railed against...
View ArticleLight Entertainment: Answers To the Matching Taillight Challenge
Last week, we showed you four different vehicles, each with strikingly similar taillamps. So began the Taillamp Identification Challenge. (Un)fortunately, Flybrian was around, and came up with the...
View ArticleJeep’s Probably Too Important to Spin Off, but Other Brands Could Get the...
So, a Chinese automobile manufacturer, Great Wall Motors, would totally love it if Fiat Chrysler Automobiles flung the Jeep brand its way. Who wouldn’t? In the mid-1980s, Jeep was the ruby in AMC’s...
View ArticleRare Rides: Maserati Merak SS From 1981 – a Seventies Time Warp
We’ve featured a Maserati previously in our Rare Rides series — a bespoke Quattroporte shooting brake which drew mixed styling opinions from the informed and gracious peanut gallery of the B&B....
View ArticleSergio Says Maserati Needs Another SUV
Nobody could have predicted the success Porsche was to enjoy after introducing a performance-oriented sport utility vehicle in 2002. When the German manufacturer introduced the Cayenne, everyone...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1989 Chrysler TC by Maserati – the Lemon Mix-up
The heart of a K-Car, the styling of a LeBaron, the build quality of an Italian, and the price of a Corvette. Just one car in the history of the world managed to combine all these virtues together into...
View ArticleRare Rides: This 1972 Maserati Mexico Is Actually From Spain
Open the wood paneled glove box lid to find familiar fine-grain Italian leather driving gloves. Fingers twist a small, delicate key to ignite 4.7 liters of displacement sitting under the long, gleaming...
View ArticleMaserati Recalling Brand New Sedans Over Fire Risk
Maserati of North America is recalling over 1,000 of its newest luxury sedans to repair fuel lines that pose an engine fire risk. It’s not exactly what you’d want to hear when discussing your fresh,...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Cadillac Allanté, Which Was a Race Car in 1992
The year is 1986. There’s a new, V8-powered convertible on the horizon from Cadillac — the Standard of the World. This particularly special convertible is slotted above the Eldorado in the product...
View ArticleBigland Gets a Break as Fiat Chrysler Shuffles the Executive Deck
There’s going to be a lot less Italian in Reid Bigland’s diet going forward, after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles removed the Alfa Romeo and Maserati portfolios from the high-ranking executive’s oversight....
View ArticleMarchionne: 2019 Ram Production Is a Headache, Levante Launch ‘Sucked’
Candid as always, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne let off some steam during a first-quarter earnings call this week. The chief executive, due to retire early next year, revealed the launch of the...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1991 Maserati Shamal – Sporty, and Very Square
In the 1990s, nobody in North America spent much (any?) time thinking about Maserati products. So you’d be forgiven if today’s Rare Ride slipped from your fond early-90s memories long ago. It’s the...
View ArticleMaserati’s North American Dealer Boss Handed the Reins
Maserati, a fairly opaque, Fiat Chrysler-owned brand that exists in the periphery of the mainstream luxury scene, has a new leader in North America. Announced Monday, Al Gardner, head of dealer...
View ArticleMaserati Will Finally Get the Love It Needs: Manley
In between local radio spots that endlessly hawk Mitsubishis with free winter tires and incentives piled high on the hood, there’s sometimes an ad for, oddly, the Maserati Ghibli — the aging luxury...
View ArticleFCA Boss Admits A Maser Mistake
Earlier this year your humble scribe was in the Detroit suburbs to drive a whole bunch of Maserati and Alfa Romeo product at an event that was separate from and yet still part of Fiat Chrysler’s annual...
View ArticleFCA Says Maserati Will Remain Unprofitable Until Post-2020 Product Offensive
Maserati posted an ugly financial report for the second quarter of 2019. Revenue was down 40 percent, resulting in a loss of $132 million before interest and taxes. The good news, according to Fiat...
View ArticleRare Rides: A First-generation Maserati Quattroporte From 1967
Maserati’s Quattroporte has always been a large, sports-oriented luxury sedan, though the sports part occasionally waned in its influence. Through six total generations to date, Quatroporte serves as...
View Article2019 Maserati Levante GTS Review – Speedy, but Special Enough?
One of my longstanding beefs with certain luxury brands that share corporate families with mainstream nameplates is that many of them don’t do enough to differentiate their high-priced metal from...
View ArticleHalo Hero: Maserati Reveals MC20
Thanks to a particularly slow news week, everyone has had extra time to gawk at the 2021 Maserati MC20 — a vehicle that serves to set right all that is wrong with the Italian nameplate and will be the...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1999 Maserati Quattroporte, and It’s Pink
We’ve featured a Quattroporte at Rare Rides on two prior occasions: a beautiful first-generation model, and one in its more modern form which was reworked into a slinky wagon. Today’s Nineties model is...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1976 Maserati Kyalami, Obscure Italian Luxury
Today’s Rare Ride is a very luxurious Maserati which flew in under the radar and was offered by the Italian firm for a short while. A four-seat coupe, it was named after a race track in Africa. Let’s...
View Article2021 Maserati Lineup First Drive: The Song Remains (Mostly) The Same
In the lead-up to my seat time with Maserati’s latest on the big track at Willow Springs International Raceway and the nondescript streets surrounding it, the automaker held a press briefing via video...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1991 Chrysler TC by Maserati
With The General offering a costlier-than-an-S-Class Cadillac built in Turin and Hamtramck (the two assembly lines connected via custom-built 747 freighters) as well as Italianate Buicks and...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1971 Maserati Quattroporte Prototype, the King’s Sedan
Today’s Rare Ride was one of just two finished examples of the ill-fated second generation Maserati Quattroporte. Maserati envisioned a promising future for their large luxury sedan, but the company’s...
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