The Supercar That Dared to Be Comfortable: The Maserati Bora’s Secret French Heart Ask any supercar of 1971 the questions that actually mattered to an owner and you’d usually get a sneer. Can I climb in without wrecking my back? Can I drive it for two hours without going deaf? Can I park it without … Read more
Maserati 250F: The Most Beautiful Car to Ever Win a War Denis Jenkinson, the great Motor Sport correspondent who rode shotgun with Stirling Moss to win the 1955 Mille Miglia, did not hand out praise cheaply. He had watched everything the 1950s had to offer. And of one particular afternoon at the Nürburgring he wrote … Read more
Maserati MC12: The Supercar That Forced the FIA to Invent Balance of Performance Top Gear lapped one. The Stig set a time of 1:18.9 — one tenth faster than the Ferrari Enzo. Clarkson called it twitchy, oversized, and “either a racer, a GT car, or a detuned Enzo in a fat suit.” He couldn’t quite … Read more
GIANPAOLO DALLARA: THE ENGINEER WHO CHOSE A GARAGE IN PARMA OVER A DESK IN MARANELLO The first note Enzo Ferrari left on his desk read “Più ordinato, per favore.” Tidier, please. Handwritten in the purple ink the Commendatore used for everything. It was December 1959. Gianpaolo Dallara had just left university and just walked into … Read more
Maserati cooked its own engine, regulations took the heat out Some engines explain themselves. Others hit you. The Nettuno does the first better than almost anything else alive. The second — no. And that’s exactly what you need to know before someone sells it to you as the future of Maserati. Because the future is … Read more
MASERATI QUATTROPORTE: SIX GENERATIONS WITH THE ENGINE WHERE IT SHOULDN’T BE The sedan that stole a prince’s heart Picture this. Early sixties. Modena. An engineer named Giulio Alfieri has an idea that sounds like madness: take a competition-derived V8, drop it into a four-door car, and tell the world that a sedan can be the … Read more
Maserati: Seven Brothers, One Trident, and the Greatest Race Ever Run The family born for speed To understand Maserati, you need to start with a fact almost nobody knows: there weren’t six brothers. There were seven. Rodolfo Maserati was a locomotive driver for the Italian railways, based in Voghera, Lombardy. He married Carolina Losi, and … Read more
