28 Facts About Maserati Quattroporte

Maserati Quattroporte is a four-door full-size luxury sports sedan produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Maserati.

In 1966, Maserati revised the Tipo 107, adding the twin headlights already used on the U S model.

Second generation Quattroporte, named Maserati Quattroporte II, was introduced at the Paris Motor Show and the Turin Motor Show in October 1974.

The 1973 oil crisis and the collapse of Citroen's finances in 1974 prevented Maserati Quattroporte from gaining the EEC approval for the European market.

The production did not commence until 1976, and each Maserati Quattroporte II was built to order and sold in the Middle East and Spain where the type approval wasn't needed.

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Third generation of the Maserati Quattroporte was developed under the Alejandro de Tomaso-GEPI ownership.

The hydraulic system of the Maserati Quattroporte II was replaced by a conventional power steering setup and the suspension geometry was akin to the Jaguar XJ.

Maserati Quattroporte III marked the last of the hand-built Italian cars; all exterior joints and seams were filled to give a seamless appearance.

The Maserati Quattroporte III was an instant success and 120 units were sold in Italy in 1980 alone.

Fourth generation of the Maserati Quattroporte was manufactured from 1994 to 2001 and was the first car to be produced under the Fiat ownership after Alejandro de Tomaso sold his entire holding to the Italian marque in 1993.

World premiere of the fourth generation of the Maserati Quattroporte took place at the April 1994 Turin Motor Show and the car went on sale towards the end of the year.

Ferrari immediately undertook a renewal of Maserati Quattroporte's dated production facilities, as well as made improvements to the manufacturing methods and quality control.

Maserati Quattroporte is a four-door, five-seater saloon with a steel unibody construction.

Fifth generation of the Quattroporte debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show on 9 September 2003 and made its U S premiere at the 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance; production started in 2003.

Maserati Quattroporte was initially offered in only one configuration, equipped with an automated manual transmission, marketed as DuoSelect.

Maserati Quattroporte offered fifteen exterior paint colours, Poltrona Frau leather upholstery in ten colors, contrasting seat piping and stitching and three types of wood inserts.

At the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2005, Maserati introduced two different trim levels for the Quattroporte, the Executive GT and Sport GT.

Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT was a comfort and luxury-oriented specification; it came equipped with a wood-rimmed steering wheel, an Alcantara-suede interior roof lining; ventilated, adaptive, massaging rear seats, rear air conditioning controls, veneered retractable rear tables, and curtain shades on the rear windows.

At the 2008 North American International Auto Show, Maserati launched the Quattroporte Collezione Cento, a special edition of the Quattroporte limited to 100 examples.

Maserati Quattroporte's body is a steel unibody, with an aluminium boot lid and engine bonnet; the coefficient of drag is Cd=0.

All Maserati Quattroporte models were fitted with a limited slip differential.

V8 engines of the fifth generation of the Quattroporte belonged to the Ferrari-Maserati F136 family; they had aluminium-silicon alloy block and heads, a crossplane crankshaft, four valves per cylinder driven by two overhead camshafts per bank and continuous variable valve timing on the intake side.

Maserati Quattroporte V has been used as a hearse as seen on the funeral of the Polish president Lech Kaczynski in 2010.

New Quattroporte was designed at a special Maserati-only department within the Fiat Group Centro Stile design centre, under the guidance of ex-Pininfarina designer Lorenzo Ramaciotti.

Current-generation of the Maserati Quattroporte was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2013.

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In 2019, the Maserati Quattroporte GTS was awarded "Best Luxury Vehicle" by the Washington Automotive Press Association, in Washington DC.

The sixth generation Maserati Quattroporte is considered as one of the fastest relatively depreciating production cars.

V8 engine of the Quattroporte GTS differs from the other members of the Ferrari F154 family, in that the Maserati version has a crossplane crankshaft and wet sump lubrication.