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Maserati's saloon car has replaced its V6 engine with a smaller, more economical unit with hybrid reinforcement. Desecration or a refreshing renewal?


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Road test: Maserati Ghibli

It happened, the long arm of air pollution regulation reached as far as the Holy of Holies, under the hood of Maserati Ghibli.

What's left of her Italian charm now that she's replaced the V6 with the 48V

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Keenan Cohen

Friday, 09 April 2021, 07:17 Updated: 07:30

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Maserati Ghibli Hybrid (Manufacturer)

There are cars that no matter how much time has passed since the last time you drove them, there will always be this one thing left in your head from this round.

Some cars it's a moment of real fear, some it's a moment on the winding road at first light - in the Maserati Ghibli it was the sound of its V6 twin turbo engine, and when it came with the little squeak of the rear tire it was like Nancy Sinatra and me Hazelwood do "Jackson."



Because Maserati Ghibli had three iron-clad assets: her looks, her demeanor and her engine and the sound he made.

Its hybrid-lightweight version takes the latter out of the equation and replaces it in a unit with a 48V battery.

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In praise of exclusivity

The latest generation of Dodge Wiper, the previous Corvette, Alpha 4C, La Ferrari, Jaguar F Type - was something good that went through the car design in 2013 (OK, so there were also Mitsubishi Atrez and Suzuki crossover, do not be petty okay?) .

Maserati Gibley was also introduced then, and at a second and third look at it, it is hard to say that its design lost anything in this period when its neighbors changed a generation and a half.



But while on the outside you would not guess her age, in the cabin it is already harder to hide the age.

Also because the base was not exactly the bon ton of the car industry, but the gap has meanwhile been widening.

So they switched screens - they are large and with excellent resolution and connectivity to Apple and Android, improved materials, polished finishes, renewed fonts, added systems and it really progressed a lot, but here and there there are still points that had to be improved.

In plastics around the driver, switches that four years ago were no longer interesting to find in it and more.

The materials in the cabin have been improved (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

What remains the same as in the past is the situation in the back seat.

Crowded here, on the order of a category or two below it.

The feet, knees and head do not get the abundance of space that competing like the 5 Series, Mercedes E-Class and Audi A6 provide.

The seats themselves are too short to support the thighs and a strange bulge in the lower back does not improve the situation.



The 500 liters of the trunk is a nice volume, but the relatively narrow key of the trunk will not make life easy.

Still crowded in the back seat (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

Electrifying?

So the reason for the convergence this time is to add a new propulsion version to Maserati’s offering.

This time, in the spirit of reducing pollutants, this is a unit that has come to benefit the environment.

They call it a "hybrid" in Maserati, but to be honest it's a bit misleading.

For unlike hybrids as we are accustomed to, Ghibli has no ability to move independently by electric power.

Therefore, it is only a light assistance system that also allows longer periods of standing with the engine off and easy assistance with accelerations.



Thus, the 3.0-liter Twin Turbo engine is replaced by a 2.0-liter, four-cylinder propulsion unit with a single turbocharger.

The power now is 330 hp and 45.9 kg (345 and 50 kg in the past).

4-cylinder engine instead of the V6 (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

On the road, it is hard to say that these 15 lost horses are missing in terms of performance.

The speed is sufficient and the accelerations are of the right size for a sports car.

It even has a not bad sound at all.

What it lacks in name is the character, the linear traction of the V6 engine, the gurgle that turns into a hoarse scream, the delicate balance between the character of the V engine but the lightness of six rather than eight cylinders - here it is not.

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What's more, it's still the sharpest and most behaving sports salon around, with a real "Old School" section and its good section.

No adaptive dampers, no progressive steering - just the ever-correct combination of a calibrated calibrated chassis and precise steering on a non-excessive weight to create a machine that knows what the rules of driving are.

Were it not for the less precise brakes and the bow that lost its dignity and with it its ability to produce a weight for tightening the front wheels in turns - it would have been perfect.



On wet roads and winding galore - which are the litmus paper for a car's dynamics, it allows rear-wheel-drive gas games to the glory of the triangular pitchfork tradition.

Blue decorations differentiate it from the regular versions (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

What about the hybrid promise?

Well, so first of all we have already said, it does not really travel by electric power.

And besides, you are not really buying a Maserati, or any cars on the order of its price to calculate in the fuel pump right?

But still, in a nearly 200-kilometer-long measurement section of gentle administrative driving, consumption stabilized at 12.5 miles per gallon.

After the fast sections and at the end of the test days, consumption stabilized at about 8.6 km per liter.

Still looks great (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

Give me Gibley?

Maserati Gibley has lost one of its most important ribs - its excellent engine, perhaps its base rib.

Again, as in the past, it is not without flaws and some of them are quite substantial.

The thing is, if in the past it was easy to treat them with forgiveness and send into her arms someone who puts pleasure in a leader, emotions and connection of man and machine before the other things - this time, it is no longer convincing enough without the same rib.



At a price of 550,000 shekels, which is about 50,000 shekels cheaper than the previous price, with all due respect to the behavior of the road - Maserati Ghibli, just too expensive to really convince and even in this version it will remain a spectacle that is lust to the eyes, but also not very common.

A rare spectacle will remain on the roads (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

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On the technical side: Maserati Ghibli

Engine, propulsion:

gasoline, turbo, rear


volume (cc):

1,998


power / rpm (hp):

5,750 / 330


torque / rpm (kg):

2,250 / 45.9


Transmission:

automatic, 8 gears



Dimensions:


Length (cm):

497


Width (cm):

195


Height (cm):

146


Wheelbase (cm):

300


Trunk (liters):

500



Performance:


Acceleration 0-100 :

5.7 seconds


Maximum speed:

255 km / h



Competitors:


BMW 5 Series, Mercedes E-Class



Price:


550 thousand shekels

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