Ghibli 510bhp?

I would guess more actually. But that's just my guess.

 

It's going to need extra HP as it weighs 500lbs more than the Giulia.

 

Never thought I would see the day when 510hp was considered underpowered.

 

+1 It's also odd that there are so many 350+ and 400+ HP cars out on the road, far more than these 500+ monsters. Especially given the enormous and omnipresent push for reduced carbon emissions. A bit schizophrenic.

 

Very true, but they would not need so much hp if Maserati put their new cars on a diet. 4000lbs for the "smaller" sports sedan in this day and age of high tech materials is a joke.

 

Weighs the same as the equivalent Audi A6

2015 Audi A6 3.0T Prestige quattro Features & Specs | Edmunds

Remember they're delivering a set of features and equipment at a price that won't allow the use of the absolute cutting edge materials and technology. It's not meant to be a Ferrari.

My Jag weighs the same amount and has a 400HP supercharged engine. I don't feel inadequate when I'm driving it at all. Faster than most. I don't drag race with AMG or top of the line Audis, BMWs or Maseratis either. It really isn't about need except in the HP wars which raging at the moment! Amazing times.

 

Three wrongs don't make a right. They all need to lower their car weights. The Italians were always good at making light cars. They forgot all about that chasing the German and Japanese tank cars along with everybody else. This could be their secret weapon if they did it. The Americans started it I guess back years ago. Can you imagine a 3400lbs Ghibli with a shorter wheelbase and the same HP. It would be out handling everything with 4 doors!!

 

Yes but unless they dumped a lot of equipment, AWD and used some very extoic material they wouldn't get there AND maintain the type of car they seek with Maserati.

I'd like to see an elegant lighter weight and smaller coupe too. Apparently Maserati doesn't see that as their B&B. There are many more customers out there for the cars they are manufacturing. The Alfieri is way, way off in the future if ever

They're doing some of what you're suggesting with Alfa instead ...

 

And now, accoding to Marchionne, there's talk of Alfa Romeo returning to Formula 1.

 

I can't see it, makes very little financial sense I suspect. Still, they did make an entirely new engine for the Alfa instead of taking a variation of the Maserati. When Maserati was relaunched they produced the MC12 (heavily modified Enzo) as a halo car and then went racing with that. So ...

 

I would like to see Alfa go to Lemans/IMSA style GT racing with the 4C instead of F1 and then maybe WEC at a later date. I wonder if they would ever make a 4C type car with that V6 turbo. That might be in the works already, and it will have a Maserati logo on it Leave F1 to Ferrari.