MC 20 Engine Teaser

Oneball

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CV is chevaux vapeur, same as PS (the leather shorts wearing version). It’s a metric horsepower for those countries where “did you get a horse” can be applied to both an outdoors activity and an evening meal.

Slightly less than one HP
 

Ryandoc

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Let’s not knock it folks. It’s an ICE, on the initial details it seems appealing, pretty thing as well.

I’ll stick my neck on the line and say they made it (the car) sound good on the acoustics as well.

There was a spy vid of the MC20 that despite being a far from finished product or clearly sound, certainly was throaty
 

Phil H

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I'm quite happy with my 6 pot, although another 230 horses would certainly be interesting. The new car does sound promising, but no matter how good it looks or how well it goes there's still the thorny issue of pricing.

PH
 

azapa

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Great video! Really nice to see the presenters passion for his work, gives hope! I hope the shareholders don't see it, they'll be out with the shears.

Did anyone mention it's missing a couple of cylinders? :p
 

Twinspark

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90 degree V6 so maybe they've got an eight in development.
Its possible that its an evolution of the Alfa engine thats in the Giulia.

either way, the MC20 is a car that Maserati needs, its kind of a sporting brand with no real sports cars and a car like this can maybe stop them from being a punching bag for auto journos.
 

ChrisQP09

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The bearer of our trident, Neptune, has surfaced from the depths of despair. Hope has been restored. A little philosophical
 

Chrisb2015

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We have an engine and not a Massive battery, for now I’m happy with that lol

With any luck it’s a engine line that makes it into the next GT, whenever and wherever that’s coming from!
It will make it into the next GT with approx 530 BHP. It’s a version of the Alfa QF engine. The dealers had feared the hybrid GT would be first but apparently not, petrol first which is a good thing.
 

Chrisb2015

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Its possible that its an evolution of the Alfa engine thats in the Giulia.

either way, the MC20 is a car that Maserati needs, its kind of a sporting brand with no real sports cars and a car like this can maybe stop them from being a punching bag for auto journos.
The eight already exists in the Levante and formerly the QP GTS. We will have a Ghibli GTS with the same engine later this year. I am quite excited about the prospect of an eight cylinder 530+ BHP rear wheel drive Ghibli....
 

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So from what I read it’s a 100% Modena designed and made V6 based on the QV/Fez lump (stay with me) so basically new heads.

The only confusing bit if that is the case is it’s dropped from 3.8 to 3.0 which screams an S variant back up to 3.x at a later date.

It’s all good news so we should embrace it...it’s what we have all been harping on about for years.

Or the engine will remain at 3.0 both the addition of electrification of the front axel giving torque vectoring and basically a 4WD.

By my maths that’s found to add up to circa 750hp.

It sounds great.
 

merak1974

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So from what I read it’s a 100% Modena designed and made V6 based on the QV/Fez lump (stay with me) so basically new heads.

The only confusing bit if that is the case is it’s dropped from 3.8 to 3.0 which screams an S variant back up to 3.x at a later date.

It’s all good news so we should embrace it...it’s what we have all been harping on about for years.

Or the engine will remain at 3.0 both the addition of electrification of the front axel giving torque vectoring and basically a 4WD.

By my maths that’s found to add up to circa 750hp.

It sounds great.
I am not sure how much is new and how much is taken from the existing engine ranges (would make sense to use what works well...), but otherwise I totally agree :).