The article features an interview with Technical Director Jean-Luc Brossard, Head of Vehicle Engineering Paul Fickers and Maserati’s Chief Test Driver Ivano Cornia, who disclose several aspects of the GranTurismo’s development, and concludes that with such a car “the Trident’s future looks bright in their hands”.

According to the author Richard Meaden,“It’s gorgeous as only an Italian car can be and it promises to be the new best way to devour a continent in one fell swoop” and “we’ve not seen anything quite so gobsmacking in years”.

“Dressed in boldly-sculpted couture curves”, the new Maserati GranTurismo “is exotic and glamorous, inspiringly original and deliciously unconventional”. Retaining the Maserati’s unique DNA, “the GranTurismo combines the opulent accommodation of a Bentley Continental GT with the price of a well-specified BMW M5, while promising a carefully honed poise, balance and deftness either German can only dream of”.

The British magazine also makes a feature of the new Quattroporte Automatic, “the only limo-sized saloon that truly cuts it as a work of art and surrogate supercar” and to its new automatic transmission “so worthy of the car” remarking that this is the answer many potential customers have been waiting for.