GTP Cool Wall: Maserati Biturbo

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Maserati Biturbo

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Who wouldn't rock this? Seriously.

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A car that you have to modify just to make it look good is even less cool.
 
Seriously uncool. Looks like a car that a small time drug lord from the 80s drives because it's a Maserati[/b], but people just think it's a Chrysler LeBaron.
 
Murcie_LP640
Still a mod, as is the lowered suspension that it appears to be running on :) That one looks alright. Stock standard, they look blehh.
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Loads of cars have ugly looking factory rims greatly reducing the looks of the car. I see your point on the suspension though.

Still, I'd totally rock that.
 
Crash
Seriously uncool. Looks like a car that a small time drug lord from the 80s drives because it's a Maserati[/b], but people just think it's a Chrysler LeBaron.
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Small time my eye. I'll have you know that the biggest drug lords of the 1980s drove Biturbo sedans and Quattroportes:

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Enough trunk space for 4 Stinger missiles.



The only car higher up the totem pole was the 928.
 
Uncool, meant to hit Seriously Uncool. Meh...too early in the morning.

It's ugly, decent performance when it would start. It would force me to buy a tow truck just to cut out the middle man.
 
Dennisch
The picture doesn't do it justice. In real life and with proper wheels, and a darker color it is actually a pretty nice 80's car.
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You mean, one of these?
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Many will hate it because it's not built to last, it was not made under very strict manufaturing standards ( meaning each car has it's peculiar own issues surprises... ), the design does not make an effort to look modern or over the top and the numbers are not striking enough to make you smug. Summing up, it's not an appliance built to sell in batches. Even if it was never intended, it has it's own personality.

Driving one of these as a weekend car may not sound like a very intelligent decision, but it takes a very special taste and mindset to enjoy one of these.

I'd have mine in black, with proper BBS'.

Easily Cool.
 
Ah.. sorry, did not know the newer variants would not be included.

I'd still have an Si, though:
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They COULD be included, but I was debating cutting the production date in half because technically, like the variants are all technically based on the Biturbo, Maserati cut the Biturbo name around the mid-late-80's. The Shamal and Ghibli II apparently(I'm American and therefore clueless) were different enough to be distinguished.
 
It looks ok but what redeems it is the fact it's a Maser and top spec has 285 bhp V6 twin turbo.
 
80's, Italian, turbo. 3 words that will never be in the same sentence as reliable. At least not in a positive way.
 
Dennisch
Those figures were gone after it's first startup. They would get 250 tops. On a very, very good day.
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The "180-285HP" range in the OP refers to how much it would have at the start of the dyno session and how much it would have at the end.
 
Eh, it's not tickling my interesting bits like some cars. It's not too good looking, performance seems on the high end of average, and being a Maserati, it can't be reliable.

That said, I don't have any experience with it to know if it's got a worthy soul. I don't think it's enough to make up for my opinion it's a Maserati that doesn't live up to the name.

Uncool.
 
Seriously uncool. Yes, it's a Maserati, but this is a bizarrely proportioned slab of Maserati-badged unreliability.
 

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