today Good price or no dice Maserati offers a unique car experience at an uncommon price. Will she prove to be a good enough bargain to fend off poseur status claims?
There is nothing better than open roads and a comfortable car to ride. yesterday 1990 Lincoln MK VII LSC It was a car originally designed to eat up the miles in comfort. It’s less comfortable these days due to its age and wear, but at $2,295, most of you were willing to overlook its flaws. That ended up winning a nice price of 72 percent and may hint at a wild ride in Lincoln’s future.
The Lincoln of yesteryear was a big coupe, with plenty of room for four plus all the baggage a quad might carry. On the other hand, today 2005 Maserati GranSport It’s a little more intimate. Yes, it offers two rows of seats and seat belts for four people. And with a 105-inch wheelbase, its cabin is noticeably more spacious than the contemporary Porsche 997 that was one of Maserati’s goals with this model. Neither cabin nor boot, however, will provide weekend room for four adult ass unless they are all racehorse jockeys who want to travel with little more than a toothbrush.
Of course, Maserati’s goal with the GranSport was not to offer public transport-like capacity. No, the main purpose of the GranSport was to look great and sound great.
To achieve these goals, Maserati started with the coupe and convertible introduced in 2001 and 2002 and then massaged the design inside and out. The main results of this work are improved aerodynamics and a more comfortable cabin featuring wider seats and a narrower center console.
Under the hood, the 4233cc 10-horsepower four-cam V8 jumped from the coupe/spyder to a total of 395. Torque remained the same at 333 lb-ft. The V8’s exhaust features a mechanical orifice that lets the engine roar in ways that would make nuns cross themselves and both men and women put their underwear to clump around.
The main difference between the GranSport and its coupe siblings is in the gearbox department. The coupe could be equipped with three pedals and a conventional manual or F1 manual/automatic. GranSport only came in one direction – with the Cambiocorsa F1 ribbed transmission. Now, not everyone is fond of how F1 works, especially in movement around the city. It can be difficult to drive in such situations. However, hit the open road, F1 comes into its own.
This GranSport comes to us in black over a stylish gray cloth and leather interior. It wears a set of aftermarket 19-inch chromed wheels, but those stand in for factory alloys that have been refinished and are included with the sale.
The seller describes the car as being in excellent condition and has only 50,800 miles on the clock. They note clutch wear at 46 percent which is notable because F1 cars go through clutches the way most cars go through cabin air filters, and replacement is very expensive.
The other common factor in this generation of Maserati is the slimy, sticky, sticky surface that appears on the control buttons in the cabin. Fortunately, this car is claimed to be free of this plague. Other notable features here are the yellow brake calipers which the seller claims are a rare option and the built in radar detector. Does Po-Po still use radar, or have they all gone laser?
Aesthetically, the car appears to live up to its claimed “excellent” condition. The paint appears to be free of major blemishes, and the cabin shows no visible corrosion at all. Plus, the car comes with not one, but two tubes of Chapstick. Bonus! However, the imperfection goes to the seller because he denied us a shot at the beautiful car’s engine bay ad.
A clean title and the reasonableness that an extra set of wheels could be resold makes this a rather compelling deal. The question for all of you is whether or not the asking price of $23,800 is also.
What do you think, is this a well-presented Maserati at the $23,800 it’s asking? Or does F1 and the prospect of maintaining a Maserati only make this price a few bucks too expensive?
It’s your decision!
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