Sliding down the slippery slope toward Quattroporte ownership

WyattQP

WyattQP

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Hello all! I'm looking at buying a 2005 or 2006 Quattroporte Duoselect and I've been reading this forum to learn more about these cars and their particular problems and strengths. Thought I'd better become a member so I can participate when I get my car. I love the way they look and drive, and I can only describe them as utterly fascinating from an engineering standpoint. Since my hobby is being a backyard mechanic, and picking away at complex problems until I solve them is my idea of fun, hopefully it'll be great! I've been enjoying reading the input about maintenance and technical problems from the many knowledgeable and innovative people on this forum (and the arguments, too, lol).

I'm not going to tell you what car I use as my daily driver, because it's a faded old thing with 400,000 km that's definitely loved only by me. Let's just say that unlike a Maserati, it does not go VRRROOOM. I spent a lot of years riding sport bikes when I was younger, and I'm hoping that the QP will satisfy my need for the VRRROOOM factor.
 
3hcp

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If you’re going to use it for any city trips I would opt for the zf automatic which suits the vehicle better and you won’t have any costly clutch problems.
 
WyattQP

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3hcp said:
If you’re going to use it for any city trips I would opt for the zf automatic which suits the vehicle better and you won’t have any costly clutch problems.
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City driving? ACK, no. That's what my dear old slowly disintegrating beater car is for. To me, a city is just an annoying place to get out of as quickly as possible, so I can drive up into the mountains and get onto the good, twisty roads. (The advantage of being in Western Canada, eh.) I've never used a motorcycle for transportation, just for sport riding on the weekends, or for going on road trips, like ripping down the coastal Highway 1 to California for a few days. That's the plan for the Quattroporte. Fun driving only.

Having had a fair bit of experience with temperamental 1960s British motorcycles in the past (in particular BSA cafe racers that like to rattle parts off themselves every other day, and develop some mysterious electrical problem every third day) I'm not under any illusions about the quirky old QP Duoselects and their (dare I say fun?) F1 gearboxes. I'm aware that they're cheap as chips to buy for a reason.
 
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