Maserati Ghibli

[browellm]

Want.

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[Hornucopia]

Want can't have, now baby! Back in your pen.....

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The old Ghibli was quite restrained, with squarer lines. Nice though.

 

[brystonian]

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The new one looks pretty special though.

 

[Guest]

A DIESEL Maserati? :nup:

What's the world come to?

 

[browellm]

A DIESEL Maserati? :nup: What's the world come to?

It's just economics. Jaguar sell thousands of XF and XJ diesels.

 

[Hornucopia]

I read the other day (researching Elgrand van) that Japan stopped making diesels after the 2002 Kyoto Accord!

Presume that means IN Japan.

So, I have to 'suffer' getting the 350Z engine in the Elgrand!

 

[Jezzer]

I wish I could afford (to run) a Maserati!

 

[gjm]

Definitely want. But I'd prefer an older Ghibli, please... Not the early 70s version, but the squarer, 80s one. Well set-up, it changes direction like no other car I have ever driven. People talk about throttle switches - the one I drove had a steering switch. Straight, straight, left, right, left, straight... No sliding, very little body-roll, just a seemingly instantaneous change of direction at speed.

Of the later Maseratis, I will have a Quattroporte one day. Damn, they're gorgeous. Like a Merc S-class with attitude.

Or, if I had the money...

 

[Injector]

Definitely want. But I'd prefer an older Ghibli, please... Not the early 70s version, but the squarer, 80s one. Well set-up, it changes direction like no other car I have ever driven. People talk about throttle switches - the one I drove had a steering switch. Straight, straight, left, right, left, straight... No sliding, very little body-roll, just a seemingly instantaneous change of direction at speed.Of the later Maseratis, I will have a Quattroporte one day. Damn, they're gorgeous. Like a Merc S-class with attitude.

Or, if I had the money...

Is that bottom one the undertaker's version?

 

[gjm]

Is that bottom one the undertaker's version?

The family car - a shooting brake, if you will.

 

[crimsondonkey]

'Shooting brake' - love it. Only a marketing man of extraordinary shame and lack of self awareness could have come up with such a bollocks description of an estate!

I remember chatting with a chap who had an Aston Martin estate and was not amused when I spat my gin out as he described it as a shooting brake. He thought I should be impressed that he had taken a Grand Tourer and had a factory fitted cut and shut with nice upholstery for about £75k! I wasn't.

 

[browellm]

Shooting brake is terrible term. What does it even mean?

I can't even be arsed to Wikipedia its origins, that's how bad it is.

 

[cwarchc]

Now this is this Ghibli to have.

None of tis namby-pamby reliability

 

[rockmeister]

Shooting brake is english dear boy. 'Estate' is the modern term considered more acceptable to the middle classes, who aspired to country living. The term shooting brake derives from a vehicle made to carry a shooting party ('brake' was just a name for a horse drawn carriage of suitable dimension). Properly it's applied to sporting, 2 door vehicles, famous examples coming from Rolls, Aston etc in the past. That Maserati is quite lovely IMO, in fact I often find the lines of such vehicles more attractive than their saloon counterparts.

 

[toobhead]

in fact I often find the lines of such vehicles more attractive than their saloon counterparts.

One of my favorite cars that I've owned over the years.... was my 1973 Volvo 1800 ES Sport Wagon, even by today's standards (IMO) the lines are still simply gorgeous ! in hindsight I should have kept it. :doh:

 

[crimsondonkey]

One of my favorite cars that I've owned over the years.... was my 1973 Volvo 1800 ES Sport Wagon, even by today's standards (IMO) the lines are still simply gorgeous ! in hindsight I should have kept it. :doh:

Yep, liking that a lot mate

 

[rockmeister]

yup that's a cracker, and it's best angle too. VERY nice in white.

They do 'DO' design in sweden don't they (apart from the 240...not sure what happened there).

 

[florette69]

...They do 'DO' design in sweden don't they...

Designed by a Swede schooled in Italy, and showing unmistakeable Italian traits. I knew a gurl at college who had one. Nice. One of two or three decent looking post-war Swedish motors - mk3 Sonett being the finest to my eyes, and also an Italian-Swedish composite.

 

[florette69]

It's just economics. Jaguar sell thousands of XF and XJ diesels.

More than that, diesel technology has advanced imeasurably in recent years. Performance and economy make an attractive combo. Some of them even sound good now - have you heard the R8 TDi?