Maserati Ghibli diesel car review – beautiful but flawed
Maserati wants to make more cars and the Ghibli, especially in diesel form, is intended to attract the attention of the much prized market in premium saloons. How did it measure up?
The Ghibli is thing of beauty, of that there is no doubt What’s hot?
From the grille to the quad exhausts, this car looks fantastic from every angle …
…indeed, it looks far above its price point: it’s a Maserati.
Luggage space extendable with drop down rear seats, which is a welcome practicality
Powerful engine never really wants for real world pace
Sport button allows you to turn on and turn off the sporty noise characteristics of the exhaust
158g/CO2 and 47.9mpg are competitive if not class leading, and much more palatable than the equivalent figures for the petrol Ghibli
A Maserati for less than £50k, but with real world running costs
Fine grained leather is pretty much a given in a Maserati – but an extra in the Ghibli What’s not?
The engine doesn’t mate completely convincingly with the gear box and is lacking in shove below 2,000rpm
Without or with the exhaust sound actuators switched on, the engine simply doesn’t sound special in the way you’d expect for a Maserati
The interior is far behind the deeply honed clarity of the opposition, whether that’s Germany or Jaguar…
…indeed some plastics and fixings (such as the rear seat cup holder arm rest) could have been plucked out of a Fiat for their cheap and flimsy feeling
The touch screen sat nav is slow witted and just outclassed by the opposition in almost every way
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