Maserati has announced a pretty ambitious growth plan today and in an attempt to increase its global production to 50,000 units by 2015. To give you an idea how large that growth is, Maserati delivered 6,159 units in 2011, an increase of 8.5 percent compared with 2010. More than 2,700 of the 6,159 were versions of the GranTurismo [...]
Maserati is currently testing the upcoming generation Quattroporte, code named M156. The model isn’t expected to go on sale until the beginning of 2013 and the Italian automaker is still undecided on when it will be launching the model. Potentially, the Quattroporte could be released as early as the Paris Motor Show in September, with [...]
Some new rumors are floating around the mill regarding Maserati’s next efforts to expand its lineup and replace the wonderful, but aging Quattroporte. Word says that an all-new Quattroporte will possibly debut at next year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Reports have stated the new Quattroporte will be six inches wider and two [...]
At a time when the defense ministry in Italy is supposed to be reducing its budget by €2.5bn ($3.4 billion USD) over the next three years, 19 top-of-the-line Maserati Quattroporte sedans are headed into the hands of Italian officials. Eyebrows were raised by opposition MPs that said it was it was an outrageous indulgence at a [...]
Fiat SpA’s CEO Sergio Marchionne is proving to be a hard worker, from taking up the task of rescuing the Chrysler Group, to making radical changes to keep up with other automobile conglomerates like General Motors, Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corporation. As part of those radical changes, Marchionne set some ambitious plans for Maserati [...]
Maserati of North America has just issued a recall for 801 GranTurismos and Quattroportes in the US and Canada. The recall is for a defective part that could cause the entire rear suspension to fail, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The rear suspension left side and right side wheel alignment toe-in tie-rods may [...]
Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA CEO Sergio Marchionne has a lot of ambition for the Maserati brand as he focuses on increasing sales of the brand from 5,675 last year to 50,00 units a year by the end of the decade. How does he plan on doing that? First up, Maserati will start offering [...]
Okay – we understand that we have to be kind to mother nature and downsize our engines and save a couple trees here and there.. but some things just shouldn’t be messed with. According to sources, Maserati is considering dropping its 4.2 liter and 4.7 liter V8 engines that it gets from Ferrari as hand-me-downs. [...]
It almost seems like every manufacturer is trying to get a piece of every little action involving niche markets, making their own versions of every single different type of car out there. For example. Maserati, what used to be a small Italian sports car manufacturer, will have a five-vehicle line-up by 2014. That includes two [...]
Sergio Marchionne and Fiat have won certain concessions from workers to build Maseratis at the former site of a Bertone plant, which the company bought back in 2009 from the bankrupt car-design company. The program, which consists of increased work-shifts and more flexible overtime, won approval from 88% of the 1,011 workers who participated in [...]
