Maserati Granturismo : Luxurious and aggressive, sporting but comfortable

Maserati Granturismo

Luxurious and aggressive, she is built on the base of the flagship Maserati Quattroporte The Cabin is sporting but enough comfortable, also to whom occupies the sets behind.Design of Pininfarina:Drawn by Pininfarina, the new coupe modenese has a fluid and luxurious sculpture with sharp details with the classical lines of the Maserati. On the façade the GranTurismo introduces an ample concave grate that from origin to a giant mouth, that proudly introduces in sign of the trident.

The optic groups extend him up to the passaruotas, under which the are found you look for in league from the new design that recalls the sketch of the coat of arms of the trident. The back entire a spoiler on the superior edge of the chest, the four terminals of unloading chromed and the triangular lights with technical LED.Con 405 horses, 460 Nm to 4.750 turns succeeds in catapulting the GT in 5,2 seconds from 0 to 100 and a maximum speed of 285 schedules, nonostate the mass of 1.955 kg. With these performances the GT introduces him as sporting of all respect. Even if it is really this that doesn't want to be.

And and really this way, as the Maserati GT is introduced during the first test drive on a run that brought from Bolzano to the footstep of Costalunga and up to Moena in the Valley of Fassa. On the narrow and nervous roads of the footsteps the GT has made to feel the sporting geniuses. Fast passing without problems, perfect insertions in the narrow curves and direzionalita' almost perfect on the rectilinear ones. The brakes Brembo is shown to the height of every situation, also in you brake her of emergency, caused by bus of tourists in difficulty in the narrow curves of the footsteps.

For the safety the control of stability and the setting of the suspensions intervene to electronic control. The control stability, called MPS, if it notices the tendency to the disbandment, it reduces the couple, it activates the brakes and it stabilizes the car in few milliseconds, and naturally it avoids the block of the wheels in braked.On the ideal lines for the "cruising" calm the GT has also shown that the ingenieris modenesi has succeeded in finding the compromise among sporting and luxurious Gran Tourism. This also thanks to the adopted techniques: The propeller has been positioned behind the anterior axle.

L' effect: a perfect balancing among the weights on the aces and an agility worthy of a sporting true. But also the new automatic change to six marcies of the ZF has been developed for a sweet and comforting guide maintaining the characteristics of sportività of the propeller V8. The new transmission exalts the characteristics of the motor to the lower part and middle regimes. The change also allows changes of march from true sporting actually to 7.200 turns. The transmission is endowed with so-called control auto-adattivo that it adjusts the type of changed to the style of guide and the conditions of march. The driver can choose through keys on the dashboard among four different formalities of operation: Auto normal, auto sport, low adherence / auto ice and Manual.

All this ago of the new GT a coupe very beautiful, Italian and with performances of all respect. The least pleasant chapter is always that of prices and consumptions. According to the technical card the Maserati GranTurismo comes to consume 14.3 liters on 100 kilometers. Accomplices the weight (almost two tons) and the dimensions (few less than five meters than length). Under real conditions, above all with fast guide on roads of mountain he also reaches 20 liters gasoline for 100 km. This year the Maserati has reached for the first time after the I purchase from the group Fiat in the year 1993 the break even, the point of balance. In poor words: start to earn money!