Maserati Ghastli ebrochure now on line...

mjheathcote

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Four wheel drive S, missed that before.
What's the point of the diesel? It has the worst fuel consumption figures of all?!
 
mondie

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Great review Miles. Love the Ghibli S, I haven't been paying too much attention but whats the price and release date on these? Looks like a nice family car to me!
 
Emtee

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Don't know the pricing Mondie, but I assume orders are being taken. I've mentioned a few times that I find it a ghastly thing, so I've not been paying it too much attention TBH.
 
Andyk

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mjheathcote said:
Four wheel drive S, missed that before.
What's the point of the diesel? It has the worst fuel consumption figures of all?!
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The 4 wheel drive S looks to be the best one but we are not getting it over here in Blightly....
 
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Andyk said:
The 4 wheel drive S looks to be the best one but we are not getting it over here in Blightly....
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All they do by offering this in LHD is hack me off as I would buy the 4WD S as my next car but I'm not buying the 2WD car as they can't be arsed to look after the UK market.
 
Andyk

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To expensive to convert to RHD Dem is what I read with the small amount of sales......
 
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Just shows how Maserati is off the mark. Nothing positive for me in that comment, just puts me off.
 
ZAM400209

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It's always been like that with Italian cars...

I'm sure there's a four wheel drive Alfa Sportwagon available in Europe- I read about someone importing one once- in LHD.

And I'm sure there's a Euro diesel Alfa 159 4WD- which is a car I would buy immediately, but you can only get it here in the 3.2..

Plus Lancia Thema 8:32 from back in the day- again; only available in LHD.



And of course- there was nearly never a (Ghibli) Cup RH drive series. But a lovely chap called Drummond Bone got some owners together and petioned the factory... But that's another story, and another thread...
 
hodroyd

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Amazing, you hardly see any Maserati's when touring Europe, yet all the good stuff is on sale there, shortsighted, or what..??
 
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One telling sign for me is there is no "designed by" badge on the side that I can see. Guess they don't want to put "designed by committee"
 
ZAM400209

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Did anybody else read about the "sound actuators" which feature on the diesel near the exhaust?
I think the idea is that the car "plays back" or imitates a deeper engine note...!
I've never heard of anything like that on a car and it's a shame it's on this- the diesel noise wouldn't embarrass me...!
 
BennyD

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IIRC, the new M5 uses a similar system to enhance the exhaust noise in the cabin.
 
CatmanV2

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I have heard of similar in other places. Porsche as well?
Electric cars more obviously.
Personally I think it's ridiculous, but meh. Each to their own.

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mondie

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The new Audi SQ5 uses some kind of noise actuator in the exhaust that changes its note to a much deeper V8 like rumble, its pretty impressive from what I have heard on Youtube. The new M5 actually uses the cars speakers to add some rumble to the exhaust note, shame it was necessary and I dont understand why they chose to do it. The new twin turbo V8 RS6 sounds mental and proves that a good sounding TT V8 can still be made within current noise regs without trickery like that in the M5

Cheers
mondie
 
ZAM400209

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Oh well- that shows you what I know then!

This has got to be a departure moment, to see that on Italian car though...?
 
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