Maserati has confirmed it is working on a new entry-level model that will be priced from around £50,000.
The car, revealed as part of Fiat's restructuring plans today, will "offer a new product package with specific contents in order to exploit Maserati DNA". The only other detail confirmed was that it would be priced at less than 55,000 euros (£47,815). No official details have been confirmed.
Maserati wants the car to give it a 10 per cent share in what it calls Europe's 'high-end E-segment'.
Also confirmed at the Maserati presentation was an all-new Quattroporte. The firm wants the car to give it a larger share in the luxury sports saloon market and it is described as having a "completely new style, offering outstanding driving emotions and high-level quality".
The firm revealed no long-term plans to replace either the Granturismo or the Grancabrio because both are still relatively new models.
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Re: Maserati plans entry-level model
Oh good lord - is this thread STILL chugging along? P6 - got bored yet? We lost interest 2 days ago!
Re: Maserati plans entry-level model
Right, OK, fair dos. I wasn't aware of that.
Re: Maserati plans entry-level model
Well, I didn't know that. All I know is that the first twin-clutch gearbox to make it into a car is a Borg Warner unit, as put in the Mk4 Golf. Porsche didn't put their PDK gearbox into a production car until much later (was it 2008? My memory fails me).
Indeed it was, but that was merely a development refinement of an earlier concept, which can trace its origins all the way back to something that is very recognisably CVT which da Vinci invented. Of course, any of da Vinci's patents would have expired before DAF came into existence... =P