0 2013 New Maserati GranTurismo Sport Coupe and Convertible

Maserati act her age. Sales, build quality and reliability, manufacturers the Quattroporte since it was launched in 2003, has been steadily rising. See Maserati leads appearance wrapped around the exotic temperament hardware over the past few decades. However, the new method seems to work, instead of only four. In 2011 alone, nearly 2700 Maserati management, peddle GranTurismos, nearly one-third of the people here, the land of the eagle and apple pie. The next year in order to help keep the momentum going, GT, Maserati has brought rapid transformation of the coupe and convertible SUV Levante and sub the Quattroporte Ghibli, and stole all the headlines.

Change

The change 2013 GT sports car sports enhanced horsepower engine with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome cosmetics touch running. First of all, let's aesthetic. The front fascia has been slightly adjusted to a more positive, familiar Maserati grille and splitter. Although the shape of the basic headlights remain unchanged, and they are now including bixenon lighting LED DRLs, and adaptive illumination control, which tracks the steering wheel movement of up to 15 degrees. Movement of the standard configuration of the side skirts, and the expansion of the fender vents branded imprint to them, and them as a porthole, fur, Maserati sales representative to help extract hot air from the engine compartment. New mirrors, 20-inch wheels (four styles), as well as dark taillight lenses complete the external adjustment.

Great news included leather seats, a new headrest front and rear, integrated proposition to its high life-cycle automotive crash testing and certification is not cheap. The new seat cushion to provide the same level of comfort and support, but does not shrink framework cage Welcome familiar favorite jeans. Rear-seat passengers get the name of kneeroom additional inch or so in three-quarters of the switch. Heated front seats, but no ventilation, we spent a few minutes to explore, to find hidden in a chair at the bottom of the temperature control, it does not look like you sit down. No missing, shiny high-grip aluminum brake and accelerator pedal, though.

Throughout the leather padded cockpit standard technical features, including a Bose sound system with satellite radio, iPod connectivity and parking warning system, in particular, is found in the adjustment of the damping of this type in the United States. Surprisingly, there is no reversing camera is yet to be announced, Maserati says his return and integration to be held in the dashboard head unit. Options coupe and convertible maser our tasting in Sonoma, California, the artificial suede headliner ($ 1700), red contrast seat stitching ($ 450), Trident logo headrest stitching ($ 625), Piano black interior trim interior trim ($ 2,500), blue anodized brake calipers ($ 860), and gray paint 20-inch alloy wheels ($ 800).

Like many vehicles debut as a coupe, convertible GT sports car design can be a bit polarizing opinions formed, to a large extent, depends on your point of view. From the outside, sitting naked and vulnerable, the top-down conversions, reduce vehicle loss column Coupé elegance and dramatic curve backlight, especially in the rear fender. Internally, however, any criticism of exercise and plenty of sunshine, exhaust sweet sound of a gentle sea breeze and the Italian V-8 are attracted to your ears. The minimum wind and casual conversation was traveling on the highway, do not need to use the speaker (although we are lying if we said, it would be nice, from top to bottom of the ignorance of a common act together). GT sports car never the torsional stiffness of the squad, cut steel hard hat does not solve the problem. However, the empirical evaluation of additional convertible chassis veil is difficult to reverse or shake because drive, butter flat on the road.