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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?
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28 May 2014

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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
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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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Matt Morton

Matt Morton

Matt Morton is an automotive content writer for Business Car Manager

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