Maserati Quattroporte 2007
January 1, 2007
The Quattroporte is the perfect antidote to German luxury-car fatigue. With a free-revving, Ferrari-derived V-8 under its hood, athletic exterior lines, and a sybaritic, highly stylized cabin, the Modenese four-door is to automobiles what a Brioni suit is to haberdashery. It’s uniquely, purely, and joyfully Italian. With its engine behind the front axle and its gearbox at the rear axle, the Quattroporte’s chassis enjoys near-ideal weight distribution and associated superior handling, such that the Maserati has sometimes been referred to as a four-door Ferrari. The new Sport GT boasts different software tuning for its Cambiocorsa transmission, and it performs gearshifts some 35 percent faster than before. New for 2007 is an available automatic transmission. The new Executive GT lays on the leather, rear-seat wood tables, and other luxury equipment even more profusely than the base model. So, say auf wiedersehen to German metal and buon giorno to one of the most beautiful and desirable sedans on the road.
PRICE: $108,350 (Quattroporte, est.);
$116,850 (Sport GT, est.); $120,550 (Executive GT, est.)
ENGINE: 4.2-liter V-8
TRANSMISSION: 6-speed electrohydraulic paddle-shift
manual
POWER: 400 hp at 7,250 rpm
TORQUE: 326 ft lbs at 4,750 rpm
CURB WEIGHT: 4,375 pounds
0-60 MPH: 5.2 seconds
TOP SPEED: 170 mph
PROS: Speed, style and exclusivity
CONS: Cambiocorsa transmission not for everyone
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