This months EVO is good

[Andyk]

Pibbow is bouund to be able to confirm..He is Mr Ghibli....

 

[GransportFan1]

Pibbow is unique.....wait till you meet him.....

I take it he is a nice guy Dem. I really want to see his Ghibli.

 

[Andyk]

I really want to see his Ghibli.

Bet you say that to all the boys Adam...

 

[GransportFan1]

Nope, not all of them. You dirty minded man.

 

[Andyk]

Back to EVO....In the Turbo piece they talk about teh good the bad and the ugly turbo cars and they mention the Maserati Bi turbo they say....

This was Maserati trying to build a 3 series but not getting the point. All versions had a strange 90deg twin turbo V6, some had knife-edge handling and all were disastrously thristy. very quick when wastegate jammed shut.............

 

[Parisien]

..................original nightmare cars....pity they wore a Maserati badge......................lowest period for design and execution for Maserati..................or how many others were there, given the number of take overs and baleouts they had over 90 odd years?


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[Andyk]

Yes, not the best time for Maserati but out of it came a few crackers at the end...Ghibli and Shamal...

 

[dem maser]

Is mine part of the bi-turbo era??

 

[GransportFan1]

well the 3200 is twin turbo'd so i would say it was part of the BiTurbo era.

 

[Parisien]

...maybe in design concept....but not so much in execution...or the new direction Maserati took when run by Ferrari


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[Andyk]

3200 has a bi turbo engine yes.....but they sort of distance them selves form the old school when Ferrari took over....

 

[GransportFan1]

Before Ferrari took Maserati over, where did you buy a Maserati from, how many Maserati dealers were there??

 

[Parisien]

Can only assume own garage network...............none in Ireland am sure....an extremely rare car Adam


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[Andyk]

Meridien.......they had sole rights in teh UK......Can not remember the guys name who owned Meridien..A balding chap...But he took over in this country when the laterBi Turbo Spyders came out..Remember seeing him stood next to one in Performance car with the number plate TOY something..Think they still own it.

 

[GransportFan1]

Yeah they still own that plate, TOY 123, when i went about 3 years ago, it was on a Blue 4.2 Granturismo.

 

[dem maser]

Like that plate

 

[GransportFan1]

Bet it is not too expensive either.

 

[dem maser]

Toy 123 will be expensive

 

[GransportFan1]

i dont know Dem, 6 letter plate, should not be too much. I know one guy who has C3 TOY on his car, think he said it was £800.

 

[dem maser]

I have 1 dem.......its currently on my uncles volvo im trying to sell it but cant....