3200GT vs Coupe / Gransport

[Catalan3200]

While at Marios yesterday I picked up a copy of the official Maserati Centenary book. Hefty tome full of great detail albeit written in a strange Italianish.

Interestingly, the factory distinguish all variants of the GT not as individual models but as simply developments of the 3200GT model.

If you recall, when the Spyder was first launched it was as the 3200GT Spyder. No mention of 4200. Subsequent models were never designated 4200 but Coupe CC Gransport.

So really all of us have 3200GT's some further developed than others.

Can we shut up about 32 vs 42 now and go with the flow? (Did I say that out loud)?


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[Andyk]

Yep the 4200 was never called a 4200 it was always the Maserati Coupe......For me it was always a development as its the same car..Look at them.....Mechanically they may be different but the shape never really changed for 1998 to 2007....

 

[dem maser]

I said it for years

They are all 3200s....a 4200 is a 3200 facelift and the GS is the complete car made from both

 

[philw696]

Nicely put that Dem in estate agent talk.

 

[Andyk]

All the same family blood line Dem......

 

[Contigo]

But we all know the one with the flair and looks!

 

[Andyk]

You could say the 3200 is pure blood where are the Coupe/GS is the ******* love child of Ferrari and Maserati....

 

[philw696]

Good point Phil but the 4200 for reliability.

 

[Contigo]

For sure, If I bought mine for an everyday car the 4200 would be the one but as I use it as a weekend and fun car I plumped for the 3200.

 

[Contigo]

You could say the 3200 is pure blood where are the Coupe/GS is the ******* love child of Ferrari and Maserati....

I think it is a fallacy that the 3200 was the last Fiat owned Maserati, yes it may have been designed under Fiat ownership with Giugiaro designing the car prior to Ferrari ownership but it was built entirely under Ferrari and is therefore the first of the Ferrari owned Maserati's.

 

[Andyk]

Talking more engine....It was a bi turbo...The classic Maserati engine rather than the Ferrari engine...

 

[Contigo]

Yup for sure. Forced induction is so addictive