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 corporate parentage at the time had other (worse) ideas. And this very car was fit for a king. Maserati produced its first-generation Quattroporte from 1963 […] The post Rare Rides: A 1971 Maserati Quattroporte Prototype, the King’s Sedan appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 Oldsmobiles in the late 1980s, Lee Iacocca decided to leverage Chrysler’s investment in Maserati to create a K-Car-based Italian sports car: the TC by Maserati. Like the Allanté, […] The post Junkyard Find: 1991 Chrysler TC by Maserati appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 conference. Here, company PR chief Kas Rigas explained the “duality” of the brand, citing the original Quattroporte as the prime example. Launched […] The post 2021 Maserati Lineup First Drive: The Song Remains (Mostly) The Same appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 find out more about Kyalami. Though Maserati had a history of coupes, its subset of dedicated four-seat […] The post Rare Rides: The 1976 Maserati Kyalami, Obscure Italian Luxury appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 … neither of those things. After the initial Quattroporte’s run as a legitimate and very early example of a super sedan, the […] The post Rare Rides: The 1999 Maserati Quattroporte, and It’s Pink appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 first new vehicle the company has built in almost five years. Despite being most famous for its […] The post Halo Hero: Maserati Reveals MC20 appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 what’s on offer further down the ladder. Count Maserati among that number — at least when it comes to the Levante GTS. While it boasts […] The post 2019 Maserati Levante GTS Review – Speedy, but Special Enough? appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 the pinnacle of the company’s sedan offerings. Let’s have a look at where it all started, with this stunning first-gen example from 1967. The Quattroporte’s history began in […] The post Rare Rides: A First-generation Maserati Quattroporte From 1967 appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

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 Chrysler Automobiles, is that the brand will become profitable once new product hits the ground. The bad news? None of those vehicles […] The post FCA Says Maserati Will Remain Unprofitable Until Post-2020 Product Offensive appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more