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Agreed, E10 is a disaster waiting to happen for us classic car enthusiasts. E5 ate through a lot of hoses on my 164 before I refreshed them. If you have a couple of very large Jerry cans you can separate the Ethanol from the petrol using water and probably a dye to make it easier, but it's...

So I posted up here the other day about window shopping for a QP and I just had a thought, will an 07-09 QPV 4.2 be ok with the new, water loving, tank corroding E10 fuel coming our way this year? Has anyone phoned the dealer to check as there is no info for Maserati on the gov site. I...

Ah ok, I was going off this here, albeit it's not perfect as it omits the 07-08 models I'm looking at https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/specification-options-price-list.16190/

Aye, the 4.7 is a wonderful sound, as it is in the 8C and the Disco Volante. I was talking about the Sport GT having an X pipe and central resonator delete well, at least that's what the spec sheet I find on here says anyhow.

Very nice, but the question is do you need to brake? Lol I read that the SZ can pull something insane like 1.3G round a corner! What a machine. I can imagine parts hunting on your Q4 is somewhat fun?

Whilst I would take you up on this offer I am down in Cornwall in the South West. Out of curiousity did you try a ZF one before you fell to the sporty charms of the Duoselect?

Interesting thoughts. The main bits and bobs I would want are the Sunroof the slightly better Zaust of the Sport GT (if im not mistaken) but I am sure that the exhaust would be an easy fix anyway. Some nice to haves for me would be the seat gizmos such as heated and cooled and the massager stuff...

I didn't even notice your picture actually. Very nice indeed!!! how's the resin body holding up? I'd never fettle with something that close to perfection either! And thats ok, I did have a think about another Alfa for a while there, but nothing really matches the oldies and said oldies are...

Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss one of these, I reckon what I'm looking for is either the Base model of this time (hopefully not), the Executive or Sport GT these seem to have a pretty good entry price, with the gearbox I want and sensibly priced brakes too!

I don't want a 166 either, the amount you need to spend to sort out these cars to handle, perform and ride the way they should is Maserati money anyway, my GTA probably has about 10k or more of mods on it to achieve what it does and whilst the 24 valve Busso V6 is completely fantastic, the 12...

That's a relief!

Yes I suppose you can always put it in park can't you? But unfortunately I should imagine it would be an issue come mot time if you had handbrake issues aha. That's not hideous money tbh, not for what it is, only the same as a jaguar timing job which is about as common on the AJ133 engine...

I admire your passion and commitment to the Duoselect but it's really not for me, glad it's working out ok for you though. I could make an argument for it in a Ferrari but in a 2 ton luxury sports saloon I either want an interactive auto with proven reliability and universal application from...

I have Alfas now lol, I'm looking for something to replace my GTA as I have grown out of it so to speak, hard ride and low ground clearance start to get on ones wick, I hate German vehicles so I had to real options, the Jaguar XFR, this engine is rather ok in terms of its character and can also...

Well, I'm 100% sure I don't want the duoselect, although the next to no variator issues, and real handbrake does tempt, but I know if I had a duoselect is would be a clutch hungry, problematic one, for a start the corner up to my little space is on a steep incline and requires a quite bit of...

Wow, that really did progress quickly lol

Ahaha, thats not a problem, I'm quite partial to a tangent myself lol

Yup I'm aware it's not going to be a cheap car to run but at the same time, if one model has brake discs at £150 each and a sportier model has them at £600 each that's certainly going to swing me the way of the "lesser" model so to speak. Granted that's not perfect logic here because obviously...

Thanks for all the info, i'll be sure to check out this equivalent parts area. Yeah, I saw the Ghibli had a lot of FCA parts in it, but in terms of refinement it should still blow my GTA out the water (not that there is anything particularly uncooth about it, just Maserati is in a different...

Size wise they are about a foot longer than my 164 and 100mm wider, but people get cars with a trailer round this corner to my parking space, the bigger problem is turning radius, the GTA is worse than useless at this despite its size.