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10 Things You Need To Know About Maserati Quattroporte
Maserati's flagship is celebrating its birthday today, what happened to the car with the name with the least effort in six generations, which of them even hated Maserati, who made its last journey and what a beauty it was back
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Keenan Cohen
Friday, October 30, 2020, 10:08 AM
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One of the pre-production models of the Quattroporte, the car was required for only two prototypes
Today in 1963 Maserati presents a car that unknowingly produced a lineage that accompanies it to this day, and even if not continuously produced since, is the oldest name in the manufacturer's offering.
In the recovering economy of Europe in the 1960s, and after a series of two-door GT cars from the manufacturer, it was ready for the next challenge - the Quattroporte, which alongside the French Pasol Vega and the British Lagonda Rapid was a four-door Gran Turing with a top speed of over 200 km / h If you were rich in Europe and wanted to spread a sporty and young scent - this was the right way to get from place to place. Later it was also the fastest four-door car of its time with a maximum of 255 km / h.
For her birthday, these are 10 things you need to know about her.
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1. The power of the press
Legend has it that the idea to produce a sporty and luxurious four-door car was received in Maserati from an Italian sports journalist named Giano Rancetti, who at dinner with the son of the then owner Adolfo Orsi, pointed out that the supply of large and sporty cars is limited That a car that would display performance and luxury combined with the name the company had created for itself could be a good idea.
Maserati's excellent economic situation at the time and the idea they liked were the conditions for her birth.
America did not allow square headlights, so it was marketed with a quartet of round headlights that became standard in the second production series
For God's sake
Inspirational, or not, one thing is undisputed - while the exterior design of the little-forgotten Italian designer Pietro Pore remained classic in its look from 1963 to the present, in everything to do with the name of this car - much effort was not there.
Because when Maserati decided to make a four-door car she just called it that.
Quattroporte - Quattro (four) Forte (openings, referring to doors).
But actually, technically this car was originally called the Tipo 107, so I guess the Quattroporte is not terrible.
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Circles and cubes
The first series of the Quattroporte incorporates a very innovative design feature - square headlights.
In the early 1960s it was still very rare.
The first car to make use of this form was the Citroen Emi 6 which was introduced just two years earlier.
The problem was that while in Europe there were no regulations regarding the design of the headlights, in the United States headlights had to be round (until 1974-1975 when the standard was changed under the pressure of the manufacturers) so the cars that went there got round headlights.
With the introduction of the second series of the Quattroporte in 1966, round headlights became the standard.
The second generation developed under the Citroen, was, well - under
Really no one loves you
In 1968, Citroen took over Maserati, and this fact, together with an economic crisis that plagued the two companies, had very serious consequences for the second generation of the Quattroporte, which was introduced in 1974 at the end of the partnership, which ended within a year.
Gone are the elegant lines, the glory of the 4.1 and 4.7 engines in the V8 configuration.
What remains is a car whose ugliness has been overshadowed only by its overall low level.
There was a very general connection between Marcello Gandini's original design from Bartona and what came out of the production line.
The paddle was front-facing, the 3.0-liter V6 engine showed mediocre performance.
Maserati was not even able to pass it in an orderly manner and when the whole business collapsed around it was clear that this generation was not going anywhere.
A total of 13 second-generation Quattroporte units were built - including the prototype.
They were sold to customers in the Middle East and Spain where no standard was required, they were supplied between 1976 and 1978.
This is not a presidential lada, this is the second generation Quattroporte, sometimes failure is a positive thing
Restores the crown to its former glory
After the Citroen adventure, Maserati passed to Alejandro de Thomaso, a racing driver and Argentine businessman.
The general guideline regarding the third generation was - to delete everything that was related to the second generation.
The entire crew was replaced, including the company's chief engineer, the hydraulic system was thrown in the trash, it went back to rear-wheel drive, a V8 engine, a design faithful to the original of the Gogaro.
The third generation put her back in place
The last of its kind
The third generation also marked the end of the manual construction tradition of the Quattroporte and was the last to this method of production.
But not according to Maserati presenting the "Royal" an ultra-luxurious version by special order with a more powerful engine, unique fittings like folding tables in the back seats, a minibar.
And although the third generation is considered successful, a version did not quite live up to expectations and 53 units of it were sold when the expectation was 120.
A modern royal version of the Quattroporte is used by the President of Italy.
For a moment everyone feared that the second generation farce would return, everything pointed to that
The turbo era
In 1994 with the introduction of the fourth generation, the fear of a rebroadcast of what happened in the second generation was great because Maserati was once again under the control of a popular manufacturer - this time Fiat.
And on the design, Marcello Gandini was signed again and it was angular like back then, and like the second generation it is a turning point in the evolution of the Quattroporte with reliance on the smaller biturbo, the twin-turbo V6 engine.
But not only is it a year later that a 3.2-liter turbocharged V8 version, 335 hp and a top speed of 270 km / h is back on offer, Ferrari's entry into the picture in 1997 and the changes made to engines and production methods brought the color back to Maserati's cheeks.
Although it was not the same huge flagship, with 2,400 units in seven years of Maserati production met numbers that the Quattroporte had not known until then.
The fifth generation was a true Italian renaissance
The Empire strikes a second, or a third, or something
When the Tipo M139 is introduced or in other words - the fifth generation of the Quattroporte in 2003 it marks a redesign and redefinition of this model and connects to the true roots of the original.
A generous luxury car that unlike its competitors was a large sports car and not a fast limousine.
It returned to atmospheric V8 engines with historical volumes of 4.2 and 4.7 liters with 430 and 440 hp, had a gearbox on the rear axle to maintain the weight distribution - we said - a sports car. And customers loved it, very much, 24,000 pieces of it were sold And raised Maserati to a new trajectory.
The Quattroporte Bellagio, a heavy-duty bomb
To die for her
But the fifth generation also had one very special version, the Bellagio, built by the Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera workshop from Milan.
In 2008 she unveils her work - hatchback / station wagon configuration for Quattroporte.
It is not clear how many of these were built in total, but the RM auction house put up four units of it in May 2013 and they were each sold for 117,600 euros.
Another special version is of the Intercar company from Modena in Italy, which converted it, like other luxury cars to a funeral car.
One of those Quattroporte funerals drove the coffin of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a 2010 plane crash.
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Again at the summit
The current sixth generation, which in many ways continued the path of the fifth generation in fidelity to the historical source of this model, records one more achievement that links directly to the same Quattroporte from 1963.
Last August, Maserati introduced the Trofeo version of the Quattroporte, the 3.8-liter V8 engine that produces 580 hp brings it to a top speed of 326 km / h.
And again, 57 years after its introduction, the Quattroporte is once again at the forefront of the fastest 4-door sedan cars in the world.
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