This is remarkably unoriginal.
It's a very early non-ABS Ghibli whith a lot of parts from newer cars.
Engine, wheels, centre console, spoiler, all belong to different cars.
Not one for the purist I guess.
The quest for purity can be a bit of a blind alley. It may be different for Italian and other export markets, but for much of the Biturbo/‘number car’ era Maserati’s presence in the UK was, shall we say, sub optimal. There are tales from those who were involved at the time that explain that parts supply - and indeed, relations - with the factory were difficult, haphazard and trying, which means that many cars were essentially put together at the docks with whatever bits the importer (whoever it was) had at the time. It’s not unheard of for carb-era cars to wear bits that ‘should’ only be on facelift cars, and vice versa. Some cars sold and registered in 1990, for example, had actually been built two years earlier and had either been sat in Italy or the UK waiting for the next version of Maserati UK. Things, apparently, got better once Fiat/Ferrari started taking an interest but not to Porsche/BMW levels. So, expecting a Maserati of this era to appear just as the spec sheet says it should, is more of a bonus than an expectation.
Throw in minimal spares support - an issue, I’m also led to believe, almost entirely led by certain forces scuppering spare parts for Biturbo era cars on purpose - and it’s understandable owners scramble for what and where they can.
Then there’s general errors or mishaps leading to random specs. Take Alfa in the 00s. A fire on a ship bound for the Oriental RHD markets meant it was returned to the UK and the cars sold here with weird specs - 147 Ducati editions with 2.0 petrol Selespeeds rather than diesels, Selespeed GTAs, etc, registered much later than the ‘UK’ cars. Then there’s the Brera Prodrives that were assembled in the docks, only some of them only got the visual upgrades and not the suspension kit.
It’s not just an Italian thing; when SD1s switched production sites and bodyshells, they simply used up the parts they had left before moving on to the new boxes of bits. That’s happened more recently with the 4200/GranSport, as has been discussed on here.
From experience, such anomalies are normal and expecting every car - particularly an exotic Italian one from a company not known for its rigorous adherence to production instruction - to be precisely as described in model guides is a little short-sighted.
