2013 Maserati Quattroporte

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Maserati’s luxury sedan gets slimmer design and more powerful Ferrari-sourced V-8.

Maserati desires a much bigger slice of the luxurious phase and therefore the Italian automaker’s approaching 2013 Quattroporte sedan, set to be formally unveiled  early next year, throughout the 2013 Detroit motorcar Show, goes to play an important role in these enlargement plans. Lighter and a lot of powerful than the outgoing model, the new Quattroporte are hopped-up by a Ferrari-sourced four.7-liter V-8 engine with output within the region of 450 bhp. the only real transmission selection can doubtless be a ZF 8-speed (two gears quite this 6-speed) automatic case, with steering wheel-mounted shift paddles.

It’s conjointly extremely doubtless that Maserati can add AN nonobligatory all-wheel-drive system for the primary time to the Quattroporte range—perhaps one taken from either the Ferrari FF supercar, or probably a more cost-effective system sourced from the Chrysler parts-bin. Overall curb weight is predicted to drop, although the chassis remains steel versus the lighter aluminium structures employed by some competitors. Emissions levels are reaching to be reduced, as a results of the new Quattroporte’s lower overall weight and a lot of economical engine.
Italian style on a bigger Scale.

The one issue the recent Quattroporte still had lots of was vogue, even eight years when its introduction back in 2004. rummage around for the new model to continue the general styling theme set by its forerunner. “Some of the weather characterizing the previous model are by design maintained: the front grill, the 3 aspect vents, the triangular C pillar,” aforementioned Lorenzo Ramaciotti, head of Maserati style Center. “At an equivalent time new vogue and purposeful options were introduced: the robust belt line that runs through the whole aspect of the automobile giving the new Quattroporte a glance and feel that's quickly muscular and chic with frameless doors and 3 aspect windows.” The cabin options a luxurious mix of Italian animal skin, at the side of extremely usable (and overdue) interior upgrades sort of a giant touch-screen within the center of the dashboard. 

Maserati is wanting to use the Quattroporte, that ought to proceed sale within the initial or second quarter of next year, jointly of the key models to spice up annual sales to fifty,000 units. That’s a large figure for a corporation that, throughout a lot of of its long and illustrious history, has typically found itself teetering on the monetary brink. The automobile Grand Cherokee-based Kubang sport-utility and a smaller sedan, possibly dubbed the Ghibli, ought to spherical out the enlarged Maserati lineup over succeeding number of years.