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Opinion - Maserati GranTurismo: the last dinossaur

Greetings, petrolheads! Today’s post regards my favourite Automotive brand: Maserati. More to the point, Mazza’s new, old GranTurismo and GranCabrio. Or old-new, as you prefer. Now, before I start, please let me make it clear I did not drive any of them. I did, instead, sit in one, hear it, read the press release and the road test from a couple of very respected, if not mainstream, sources. The new-old, or old-new, Granturismo is the second facelift of a model launched back in early 2007. Which, in turn, was based on the Quattroporte saloon from late 2003. With a V8-engine derived from a late 90s Ferrari, the 360 Modena. It’s, plain and easy, an old car. Just think for a second, what was the world back in 2003? Mercedes had just introduced the SLR McLaren, the European Union comprised 15 countries, Google was starting to take over the world, Apple was very happy selling iPods and Madonna was probably still dating people of her age. Impressive, right? That’s when papa an...