The GranTurismo is back with a familiar design, but is all-new underneath - 550hp V6 included. Check out the full review here.
The last Maserati GranTurismo lived a long life and left a spectacularly good-looking corpse, but there’s no denying it felt pretty far off the pace by the time of its eventual retirement. Maserati’s recent run of form – specifically the excellence of the MC20 – means that hopes for the all-new car are much higher.
The cabin is where the new GranTurismo has been most obviously transformed. While there was an olde-world charm about the ability to combine wood and light leather in the outgoing car, its ergonomics always felt closer to the nineties than the noughties, with heating and ventilation controls relegated to a button-laden panel with LCD temperature displays.
You won’t be spitting tea to learn the Nettuno has a very different character to the old naturally aspirated V8. That’s obvious as soon as it fires into life, with a slight but noticeable amount of vibration coming through the seat base as it idles. Low down it sounds thrummy and a bit gravelly – as in its other applications it feels more redolent of rallying than racing.
While the old GranTurismo’s frequent and sometimes lurid battles for traction were always part of its appeal the new model’s smart all-wheel-drive system finds plenty of grip for its increased urge. Even when, as with the cars I drove in Italy, riding on Pirelli P-Zero Winter tyres. The extra-sensible rubber was frustrating as, with PH’s first turn in the similarly-shodlast year, temperatures were well above freezing on the day of my drive.
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