Thread: First drive review: Maserati Quattroporte V8

Maserati begins a three-year product offensive with a bigger, better Quattroporte featuring a mighty new Ferrari-built turbo V8Its well past time for an all-new new Maserati Quattroporte. The existing car, although beautiful, has been around more or less unaltered for eight years, which is too long for for most limos. But now theres an all-new edition, to be officially revealed at the Detroit motor show in January, and due to reach its first European mainland customers in February and UK buyers next June. Most cars use carry-over pieces, but this new Maser is just about as new as a new car can get: it has a different look, an all-new platform, newly designed engines by Ferrari (entirely different in character to the old ones), considerably different dimensions and even a new role in the marques future line-up. To cap everything, its launch begins a new phase in the companys history, one aimed at massively boosting total sales from last years 6200 units to 50,000 units by 2015.