Gt* V8* Convertible * 6 Speed* Skyhook *400hp* Ferrari F430 Engine * No Reserve on 2040-cars
Denver, Colorado, United States
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**************************************NO RESERVE ! ************************************************NO RESERVE !********************************************************************************************** I'm sad to say that it has come time for me to pass on this great car to a new owner, unfortunately due to recent sholder surgery I can no longer drive a manual :( vin # ZAMBB18A920006027
This 2002 Maserati Spyder GT has been a blast to own. With its 4.2 Liter V8 engine putting out 400hp , coupled with a 6 speed manual gear box makes for a very fast and fun car to drive. Its distinctive look with large chrome trident front emblem gets a tone of looks where ever I go. This car has been very well maintained has low miles (46,000) with recent service. Over the summer I replaced the intake manifold gaskets, the mass air flow sensor, new secondary air pump, new oxygen sensors, new front and rear brakes with cross drilled rotors, new alternator , new battery and new front shocks. This car is equipped with the cold weather package so it does have heated seats, power windows, locks, power mirrors, a/c blows cold, convertible top works properly, xenon head lights, navigation and cd changer. This car is also equipped with the skyhook adaptive suspension which allows the car to corner like a dream. I did modify the exhaust and it truly does sound like an F1 car going down the street, not too loud but definitely has a nice low rumble on start up and acceleration ! I also did have some carbon fiber stripes installed on hood and trunk lid along with some nice carbon fiber wrap on the bottom skirts with the Maserati Spyder GT Emblem. Paint is clean, metallic black with a nice deep rich shine to it and next to no blemishes! only has one small door ding on the passenger door which is hardly noticeable, the interior is dark charcoal leather and is in great condition with no rips or tares! Never been in any accident, completely clean car history ! I have listed it as a no reserve auction so please only bid if you have the funds to purchase if you win. Happy Bidding! and I will leave you with a review on the car from when it first came out from road and track magazine ! Enjoy!
Modena, Italy — Old rivals, hardened from decades of battle on the racetrack and in the marketplace, laid down their swords when purchased Maserati in September of 1997. This March, the storied marque with the trident logo makes its return to U.S. with the 2-seat Spyder after an 11-year absence. The new profits heavily from synergies with Ferrari on engineering, production and distribution fronts, though Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo was quick to point out the differences: "If you want an extreme car — extreme in terms of drive, performance, design — you have to buy a Ferrari. If you want a sports-car attitude, GT, more comfortable, not extreme but sport, you have to buy a Maserati." At which point he urges the waiters at Il Cavallino, the famous trattoria on Ferrari's Maranello grounds, to speed up delivery of pasta and truffles. "I'm talking about a sports car, and we have to show that even in the kitchen we have a sports car!" Built in a thoroughly modern factory — inside the original brick structure that was Maserati's Modena home after its move from Bologna in 1939 — the is a serious performance car that uses the 3200 GT as a jump-off point. From that base, much has been changed, starting with an all-new 4.2-liter 90-degree V-8 that's 1.2 in. shorter and 44 lb. lighter than the 3200 GT's engine, despite an additional liter of displacement. Lubrication of the aluminum/silicon engine is via dry sump, and the Formula 1 experience shows with three scavenge pumps and one pressure pump, packaged with the water pump, in a neat bundle on the side of the engine. Roller chains drive four camshafts, the intakes under the control of a variable timing system, actuating four valves per cylinder via bucket tappets with built-in lash adjusters. Output is an impressive 390 bhp at 7000 rpm, with peak torque of 333 lb.-ft. at 4500 rpm. Drive is taken through a small-diameter twin-disc clutch, and then through a driveshaft running in a torque tube that rigidly connects the bellhousing to the rear-mounted 6-speed transaxle. And that's where Cambiocorsa (Italian for "race change") comes into play. Developed by Magneti-Marelli and fine-tuned by Maserati, the system uses twin paddles behind the steering wheel for hydraulically actuated shifts in 0.25 second (the actual gearchange, without the clutching and de-clutching, takes place in a scant 80 milliseconds). A conventional 6-speed transaxle will also be available in the Spyder GT. A tour of the assembly line allowed us to view the entire drivetrain before it was mated to the chassis, complete with steel subframes to which elegant aluminum links and forged aluminum hub carriers attach. A large Brembo brake disc and 4-piston fixed caliper caps off each double-wishbone corner. There are a suspiciously large number of electrical leads coming off each front hub — the usual ABS wheel-speed sensor, perhaps one for brake pad wear — but the third lead is for an accelerometer for the Skyhook adjustable damping system. With a total of six accelerometers — on the body, each front hub and the right rear strut — the system's computer can compare the motions of both chassis and suspension and quickly adjust the damping accordingly. A console-mounted switch gives the options of Normal and Sport baselines, settings that also affect shifting aggressiveness.
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High school design students sketch out FCA's 'ultimate status vehicle'
Tue, May 7 2019Each year since 2013, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) hosts a design contest for high school students called Drive for Design intended to educate and encourage automotive career hopefuls. For 2019, FCA prompted 10th, 11th, and 12th graders to imagine the "ultimate status vehicle." The top three choices include two Alfa Romeos and a Maserati. FCA named first, second, and third places in the contest. Maximillian Cooper (lead image) from Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami won first place. Mason Ross (first inline image) from Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien, Wash., took second. Vincent Piaskowski (Maserati image) from Ernest W. Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Mich., placed third. The three winners of the contest will be awarded with numerous valuable prizes. They will get behind-the-scenes tours at the FCA U.S. Product Design studios, as well as mentoring time with some of FCA's designers. They will also get scholarships to attend the Precollege Summer Experience Transportation Design program at the College for Creative Studies. Lastly, they'll have the honor of serving as junior judges at the EyesOn Design Car Show. Although each sketch has a unique look, all three take the same approach: cab-forward, bubble-top supercar coupes with dramatic lines and curves. Piaskowski's shows direct inspiration from a shark, but we wouldn't be surprised if all three students have special places in their hearts for the Pininfarina Maserati Birdcage Concept.
A car writer's year in new vehicles [w/video]
Thu, Dec 18 2014Christmas is only a week away. The New Year is just around the corner. As 2014 draws to a close, I'm not the only one taking stock of the year that's we're almost shut of. Depending on who you are or what you do, the end of the year can bring to mind tax bills, school semesters or scheduling dental appointments. For me, for the last eight or nine years, at least a small part of this transitory time is occupied with recalling the cars I've driven over the preceding 12 months. Since I started writing about and reviewing cars in 2006, I've done an uneven job of tracking every vehicle I've been in, each year. Last year I made a resolution to be better about it, and the result is a spreadsheet with model names, dates, notes and some basic facts and figures. Armed with this basic data and a yen for year-end stories, I figured it would be interesting to parse the figures and quantify my year in cars in a way I'd never done before. The results are, well, they're a little bizarre, honestly. And I think they'll affect how I approach this gig in 2015. {C} My tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015 it'll be as high as 73. Let me give you a tiny bit of background about how automotive journalists typically get cars to test. There are basically two pools of vehicles I drive on a regular basis: media fleet vehicles and those available on "first drive" programs. The latter group is pretty self-explanatory. Journalists are gathered in one location (sometimes local, sometimes far-flung) with a new model(s), there's usually a day of driving, then we report back to you with our impressions. Media fleet vehicles are different. These are distributed to publications and individual journalists far and wide, and the test period goes from a few days to a week or more. Whereas first drives almost always result in a piece of review content, fleet loans only sometimes do. Other times they serve to give context about brands, segments, technology and the like, to editors and writers. So, adding up the loans I've had out of the press fleet and things I've driven at events, my tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015, it'll be as high as 73. At one of the buff books like Car and Driver or Motor Trend, reviewers might rotate through five cars a week, or more. I know that number sounds high, but as best I can tell, it's pretty average for the full-time professionals in this business.
Maserati confirms mystery concept, Zegna edition QP for Geneva
Mon, 03 Mar 2014Debate ensued last week around the Autoblog offices when we first heard rumors that Maserati was bringing a new sports car concept to the Geneva Motor Show this year. Could there be any truth to the rumors? Did the timing make any sense? Does Maserati even need a two-door halo car to help it move examples of the new Ghibli, Quattroporte and upcoming Levante?
Well, we still don't have any official answer, but Maserati has indeed confirmed a new concept car to debut this week at the Swiss expo. The Modenese automaker hasn't indicated what form the concept will take, but assuming it's not doing another sedan or crossover, and unless it's planning a wagon concept like Touring's Bellagio Fastback or StudioTorino's Cinqueporte (both based on the previous Quattroporte), we feel it's more likely than not that we'll be looking at a two-door (be it a coupe, convertible or something in between).
Of course, we also don't know at this point just what size and segment Maserati is pursuing with this concept car (initial rumors had it going after the Jaguar F-Type) or for that matter whether it will presage a production version to follow or simply stand as a design study. But Maserati doesn't typically do many of the latter: the Kubang concepts of 2011 and 2003 previewed the Levante (albeit several years in advance), and the Birdcage was really more of a Pininfarina project, despite the Trident on the nose. With the exception of a couple production-based show cars (which themselves previewed production versions to follow), those are pretty much the only concepts Maserati has done in recent memory.