Brought home a Gransport this weekend..

Beautiful car, looks great in black with those wheels and red calipers. Can't help with the hill holding feature. I had a 2002 coupe cambiocorsa and don't remember any feature like that. Good luck and have fun with it!

 

Have same car as DD and didn't know about HH feature either. Except, it will tend to hold on a slope. I just assumed that was normal F1 operation, no?

 

Congratulations on your new car! They are a whole lot of car for the money. I'm sure you'll have a LOT of fun with her.

From page 106 of the GranSport owners manual:

Hill Holder Strategy
The Hill Holder system helps the driver when starting-off on an uphill slope. It intervenes only following a vehicle stop when the brake pedal is released, keeping the car stopped for a moment, so as to allow the driver to move from the brake to the accelerator pedal. The system is capable of varying its intervention time depending on the road slope. This time ranges from a minimum (0.06 seconds) on downhill stretches and a maximum (1.2 seconds) on uphill stretches, so that the driver will not perceive the vehicle as "braked" downhill.

The function that calculates the road gradient is only active at speeds of over 8 km/h, therefore gradient changes at lower speeds will not be detected. Example: if you are driving uphill and you make a reversing manoeuvre, the system will not detect a gradient change, and its maximum intervention time will remain 1.2 seconds.

 

Congrats - very nice indeed

 

Nice looking car, congrats on your new baby!

 

Sounds like a great way to burn out the clutch that much sooner?

 

I love that car. Congratulations.

 

Hi Chris,

this is what the owners manual says.



Personally I think it's a nice idea but hard to handle.
I own a 06 Vanquish S and I now the GranSport gearbox.
Avoid slow traffic, especially uphill. Always put it in neutral if stopping and wait for a gap to go on.

Btw, congrats! The GS is the last beautiful coupe Maserati built!

Cheers
Bjoern

 

Very cool car, great colors!

Congrats to you, hope you don't miss the F-car too much!

~Ciao and best!

 

Always loved the looks of these. Enjoy!

 

Your car looks great, but DON'T paint the rims, they offset the car so nicely as it is, you won't see any definition if you paint them gray or black. Congrats!! I love the Gransports!

 

That looks great, what a setting for the photos also. Fabulous.

 

Chris, IMHO the grey (stock) wheels look great on a black one, especially with red calipers.
Grey rims give the car a more sportier look (if necessary). ;-)

 

Congrats! It's beautiful! One of my favorite Maserati. Very elegant in black!


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Congratulations, great looking Gransport. I have driven about 3 different examples, including a MC Victory and don't recall any of them holding on a hill.