21 Facts About Maserati

In 1920, one of the Maserati brothers used this symbol in the logo at the suggestion of family friend Marquis Diego de Sterlich.

Alfieri Maserati died in 1932, but three other brothers, Bindo, Ernesto, and Ettore kept the firm going.

In 1937, the remaining Maserati brothers sold their shares in the company to the Adolfo Orsi family, who, in 1940, relocated the company headquarters to their home town of Modena, where it remains to this day.

Second world war then intervened and Maserati abandoned car making to produce components for the Italian war effort.

Once peace was restored, Maserati returned to making cars; the A6 series did well in the post-war racing scene.

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Maserati retired from factory racing participation because of the Guidizzolo tragedy during the 1957 Mille Miglia, though they continued to build cars for privateers.

Maserati became more and more focused on building road-going grand tourers.

Citroen never developed a 4-door version of the SM – instead Maserati developed the Quattroporte II, which shared most of its mechanical parts with the SM, including the mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout, and six headlight arrangement.

Citroen's and Maserati's financial difficulties hampered the type homologation process; the development costs for the stillborn saloon further aggravated Maserati's situation.

On 8 August 1975, an agreement was signed at the Ministry of Industry in Rome, and property of Maserati passed from Citroen to Italian state-owned holding company GEPI and Alejandro de Tomaso, an Argentinian industrialist and former racing driver, became president and CEO.

Maserati would go on to produce a car for export to the American market, the Chrysler TC by Maserati, with Chrysler-sourced engines.

Nowadays, Maserati is back in business and successfully selling automobiles on a global basis.

Since early 2002, Maserati entered the United States market, which has quickly become its largest market worldwide.

Maserati has re-entered the racing arena with their Trofeo and, in December 2003, the MC12, which was developed according to FIA GT regulations and has since competed with great success in the world FIA GT championship, winning the teams championship three consecutive times from 2005 to 2007.

In 2013, Maserati started its expansion with the Quattroporte VI, which was designed to better compete with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

On 17 March 2022, chief executive officer Davide Grasso announced that Maserati will produce an electric version of all of its models by 2025.

Italian for "four-door, " the Maserati Quattroporte is a sports luxury saloon.

An upgraded Ghibli will be Maserati's first electrified model and is expected to be presented in Beijing at Auto China 2020.

Maserati MC20 is a 2-door, mid-engined sports car that debuted in September 2020.

Maserati Grecale is a front-engine, five-door, five passenger compact luxury crossover SUV.

Maserati developed fifteen GranTurismo MC racecars, homologated for the European Cup and National Endurance Series, one of which was raced by GT motorsport organization Cool Victory in Dubai in January, 2010.