QPV GTS at auction

[Bigbaddom]

Just been out again as I couldn’t believe how stupid I had been. Thankfully it’s pretty much all underneath the car.... phew...

 

[gb-gta]

Doesn’t look too bad, but you know it’s there, so it will bug you a bit no doubt.
Plus, all your pics so far have been at night!
Do you only go out in the dark? We need some daylight pics at some point!

 

[Devonboy]

well done - you have to the first scratch done - you can relax now....and drive!

 

[rs48635]

congratulations. ^^ as devonboy said, car is now christened.
More about the driving experience please! maybe "getting comfortable" is just the recalibration needed. Still need this process after 6+ years with a QP after driving anything else. Typical drive.....
Walk up to the huge handsome limo, fold into the seat and start the orchestra. Door closed and off we go, several 'moments' when steering input needed even on a straight road. Car like this should not have such delicate poise in direction changes. Settle into the rhythm and tootle around for a bit just enjoying the ambiance. struggle to keep the tachometer below the magic 5200rpm until properly warm. Once the planets align, enter quiet straight road in 2nd gear and let the needle go right round. Burst out a grin every time and most often a laugh or funny noise.
Every single drive.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[MarkMas]

Need some sympathy :-( in the dark I managed to catch the front bumper on a steeper than expected driveway :-(

This is routine stuff. It's a daily driver, not a show car now!

 

[MarkMas]

It was amazing but exhausting....
Most expensive car I have even bought but Grant was great.

I was pretty nervous, but the drive back was mixed. The first 15 minutes I just couldn’t get comfortable and was all over the place. Stopped to get fuel, spent 10 minutes messing with the seat, and turning the heat up (Grant 17 degrees?!?) and things slowly got better and better.

I relaxed started to work out how things in the car actually worked.

night drive with sprinkles of rain probably wasn’t the best time for my first drive but it was memorable!
......

Ah, that first drive home as the owner! I remember it well. You feel like you are driving a turbo-charged combine harvester through Victorian lanes. Plus jabbing at various odd buttons as you go.

The QP does seem to get smaller over time. For the first couple of months, I was constantly being impatiently waved through gaps and finding to my surprise that the QP was not 15 ft wide after all.

Drive home highlight for me was on the motorway, seeing a car 50 yards ahead suddenly swerve into the middle lane to reveal an obstacle in the middle of the road. (I can't remember now what it was - a shopping trolley or a ladder, I think, but something big, nasty and metal). Would have been no problem in my familiar X-Type, but in a brand new barge, it was a tad traumatic!

https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/new-to-maserati-now-have-a-2009-qp.21910/

 

[ChrisQP09]

We have all been there! It adds to the charm, part of the character.

 

[Bigbaddom]

Haha I thought I was getting used to the width. Just got back from Kew Gardens and then is a narrow lane leading to the car park. After events yesterday I was extremely suspicious of any and all kerbs, and managed to encounter a lorry coming the other way... what he was doing was anyone’s guess as the lane only leads to the car park...
Anyway, loads of cars behind me, the lorry not moving, so I approach with caution, only to see there was about a foot on either side of the car!!

then I got my first compliment when someone said I needed to try harder not to get the car muddy. This was his attempt at sarcasm given I was staying away from the edge of another section of road, he thought I was avoiding the mud, but I had just seen the rs4 in front of me drive into the mud, only to find there was a kerb hiding there...

loving the car but still adjusting to speed noise acceleration smell...