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4/24/2002, 3:22:10 PM cet
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Modena, April 24, 2002

At the ”Artedinamica” exhibition at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, the
Italian sportscar manufacturer Maserati and Pininfarina presented the first
drawings and a clay model of the new Maserati quattro porte. The exposition,
dedicated to the legendary sportscar designs of Ferrari and Maserati, opened on

April 27, 2002.

Since Maserati’s takeover by Ferrari in 1997, many things have changed at the
world-famous sportscar factory of Modena. The entire production plant was
renewed, rebuilt and enlarged, and the current products are all-new as well: After
the launch of the new Maserati Spyder at the Frankfurt International Motor Show
in September of 2001 and the presentation of the new Maserati Coupé at this
year’s Detroit Motor Show in January, Maserati has the youngest model range of

all sportscar manufacturers.

Since the mid-1960’s, a sporting yet luxurious four-door limousine has been part
of the Maserati programme for most of the time. Since 1964, this model had
simply been called ”Quattro Porte” or later ”Quattroporte” (Italian for ”Four Door”).
Four generations of Quattroporte models were built between 1964 and 2001 —
with several breaks caused by the oil crisis and other events in the partly
troublesome history of Maserati. When the production of the Quattroporte V8
Evoluzione came to an end in 2001, the last model dated back from Maserati’s

pre-Ferrari era left the building.

To complete the current model range, Maserati announced the launch of a new
four door model in late 2003. At the above mentioned Artedinamica exposition,
Maserati presented the first drawings and a clay model of this new car: The
quattro porte V. Maserati have decided to keep up the traditional model
designation for their new limousine. For the very first time, a Maserati four door
production car will be designed by Pininfarina — a novelty in Maserati’s history
that was unveiled in a recent interview by Maserati’s CEO, Luca Cordero di
Montezemolo, in which the latter announced that Pininfarina was chosen to
design Maserati’s future four door models while Giugiaro’s Italdesign would
remain the sculptor of the marque’s two door coupes and spyders. Up to now,
the only production Maserati ever to wear a bodywork by Pininfarina had been the

A6G 1500 of the early 1950’s.

As revealed by Pininfarina’s drawings, the return to the spelling of ”quattro porte”
in two words will not be the only reminiscence to the Maserati Quattro Porte I of
1964: The kidney-shaped front grille is a modern re-interpretation of the nose
section of the first Quattro Porte and also reminds the insider of the classic
Maserati A6 GCS from the 1950’s. The shape of Pininfarina’s quattro porte V fits
very well to Giugiaro’s design of both the current Maserati Coupé and Spyder
without losing its ”Pininfarinarity”: Its prominent ”hips”, its soft lines and its
crouching aggressiveness will for sure make the Maserati quattro porte V

become another masterpiece of Italian automotive design.

Nothing has yet been revealed in regard to the quattro porte’s engine. It is very
likely that the very modern 390 hp aggregate used in the Maserati Spyder and
Coupé will provide an adequate performance to the future four door model, too,
but who knows…

Andreas Birner

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