Without wishing to p!ss anyone off here, the troubles always seem to start when then go NA to Turbo, would that be a sensible analogy?They did produce an excellent V8 in 4.7 and 4.9 guise, that was long lived, before the biturbo era though.
Btw sorry if I muddled my metaphors in the start of that post !!
But at the press of a button you can play a different noise.Well, you shouldn't put the de-cat amongst the diesels. Just imagine the vile noise.
But at the press of a button you can play a different noise.
But it's not real, it's like photoshopping your picture.Hence the advantage of new technology...
I would add, in a few years, nobody will care who makes the electric motor for your new car...
But it's not real, it's like photoshopping your picture.
The 3.8 TT isn’t a Chrysler block. It’s a Ferrari engine and is used in current Ferrari production cars, so some modern ones are the real deal. Could be good to get a Levante Trofeo if/when it arrives.Without meaning to put the 'cat amongst the chickens', it makes the choice I made with the Diesel that much better!!
However, and forgive my smug joke, as has already been said this will be something FCA planners will have been well aware of, and I am guessing VM Motori the engine division of the organisation will as a result, have been working on a new generation of hybrid power plants. More to the point where is the next generation platform for the entire new range going to be sourced. Given that full electric is in the pipeline, that will require a unique design. It's my hope FCA have done their sums and see a cost effective solution to fund this for future Maserati cars.
Finally, I can see the disappointment amongst owners who, and had I gone the petrol route I would be one of them, used to be able to talk of their car with a Ferrari engine, but the real truth unless you had an old generation model, or the now old Granturismo, you were getting an engine with a Chrysler block just assembled by Ferrari. Only the V8 could be truly attributed to Ferrari, being designed from the ground up and used in Ferrari's own products.
Either way all transformative times for the Maserati brand, and to the average customer of the relatively successful models - Ghibli/Levante I doubt they know or care where the engine is made, and as is the case with my car, electronics will provide the exhaust sound.
Its being done in collaboration with Ferrari. I suspect it will once again be co produced then trialed in the Maserati, then when ironed out make its way to the F...with higher output of course.Aren't Maserati already working on an electric motor though.....Is that their own work ?.....
Wasn’t it just last week we were reading and commenting on Maserati producing a new car every X for the next few years.
Surely they will have known about the loss of the Ferrari engine, they aren’t that daft so something must be going on in the background otherwise they just look stupid and incompetent
Wouldn't be the first time sadlythey aren’t that daft so something must be going on in the background otherwise they just look stupid and incompetent