Wednesday, August 26, 2009

2011 Maserati GranCabrio Frankfurt Motor Show


Maserati GranCabrio preview


The GranCabrio represents the actual aspect of Maserati in agreement of open-top cars. It’s a Maserati in the purest faculty of the word: from the apparent appearance by Pininfarina to the ample interior, from the adroitness of anniversary detail to the active amusement and performance. The Maserati GranCabrio enriches all bristles senses in a aggregate amphitheater experience, after sacrificing abundance and performance. A dream car advised and congenital for men and women who adulation to alive activity in an chaste – admitting adult – manner. Like all the fabricated in Maserati open-top convertibles: appropriate cars aimed at aesthetic connoisseurs.

Maserati GranCabrio preview


In actuality the GranCabrio is continuing the Maserati attitude in open-top cars, abutting models that accept played such an important allotment in the Modena carmaker’s history such as the 1950 A6G Frua Spyder, 1960 3500GT Vignale Spyder, 1964 Mistral Spyder, 1968 Ghibli Spyder and 2001 Spyder advised by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the car that apparent Maserati’s acknowledgment to the United States. In the footsteps of tradition, the GranCabrio opens a new chapter, because never afore accept four-seater top-down models anytime been produced at the Viale Ciro Menotti Maserati factory. Four able seats, so that the rear cartage are not alone acknowledging actors, but co-stars of the journey.



Maserati GranCabrio preview


The GranCabrio is powered by a 4.7 litre V8, 323 kW agent and is the convertible with the longest wheelbase on the market. The GranCabrio’s roof is carefully canvas-made, emphasizing the articulation with the Maserati tradition.Maserati says the GranCabrio's 115.7-inch wheelbase--the aforementioned admeasurement as the GranTurismo--is the longest in its category, giving added allowance for rear passengers. The GranCabrio completes the three-car Maserati ancestors with the GranTurismo and Quattroporte sedan. The car will add aggregate to the company's sales, abnormally in the acute U.S. market, which is accepted to be the better bazaar for the convertible. Maserati's assemblage sales were bottomward 48.2 percent to 2,326 in the aboriginal half, which the aggregation said was in band with a 47-percent abatement in its bazaar segment.


Maserati GranCabrio preview