INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH: Maserati Quattroporte — for the love of driving in luxury
STRONG engines, disturbingly capable handling and acres of interior space. The Maserati Quattroporte facelift’s best features are the same as they always were, with the addition of some driver assistance features that lend it a big-boy credibility it didn’t have with some buyers. Due in SA early in 2017, it’s a better car — more mature without losing its sense of fun and charm and character.With barely touched powertrains, the headline act of the Quattroporte’s upgrade is driver-assistance technology that really should have been there when the car launched three years ago.By far the biggest Maserati (at 5.262m, it dwarfs the standard versions of almost anything that can be driven on a standard car licence), it now has some small visual changes and enough driver-assistance stuff (like radar cruise) to bring it up to German levels.At least, that’s the on-paper argument. The reality is a bit murkier. Nobody was going to come over to Maserati just because of radar cruise, a reversing ca...
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