Quattroporte

Your best bet is to go on maserati life. It's much more active and you'll get the answers you're looking for.

 

I just bought a 2012 3 weeks ago drove it from FL to TX no problems, unfortunately it was when that massive 200mph hurricane from Mexico had degraded and 75% of the drive was in a downpour. Have put almost 3k miles on it so far, I daily drive it to the hospital and back (50mi roundtrip). Not quite as fast off the line as my Corvette but much more comfortable and actually more fun. The vette drives like a bigger car than it is the QP is surprisingly the opposite. From what I could gather about them in my research leading up to buying this car is that if it is a duoselect car (true F1 style transmission and not an auto with "paddles") be prepared to replace the clutch every 20k mi for $7-9k. Those 05-07 are cheaper b/c of age and this $ issue and are actually a bit quicker than the later models from 08-12 that had 6sp auto. Camshaft variators are another issue that seems to be a possible high $ repair for the QP, possibly as much as 4-7k if it needs to be done. Seems like there are many theories why there is an issue but nothing definitive. One of the members on ************ questioned people that had to do the repair and those that didn't and their conclusion was that it was much more likely to be necessary if the car was mostly seeing cruising and low RPMs, no routine acceleration at >3500 rpm. Here is a link to a buyers guide from the VC who sold me his car. He also mentions a leaking steering rack as another issue. Maserati Quattroporte Buyers Guide | Secret Entourage