How much of a discount off MRSP is usual when purchasing a spyder or coupe? Looking to buy one soon!
Maseratis are designed for options customization, and the price of a car can vary up to $20K depending upon how it is outfitted. Some options are very desirable (suspension, Xenons, etc.), others are unnecessary. Don't pay $$$ for a leather headliner, a fire extinguisher bolted to the passenger seat floor, or the extremely expensive, screenless nav system on the Gransport. Go to: http://www.maseratiusa.com/ and mock up your exact car, then print it out and fax it to every Maser dealer in the country. Get your best quote. Get the car on a closed end lease, probably the ones by Chase which are, I think, still factory subsidized. Make sure the lease term stays within the factory warranty! Get the Gransport unless you must have the convertible. Join TMC: http://www.themaseraticlub.com/tmc.html and have a blast!
If you get serious about this and are within jumping distance of northern California, there's a pretty nice Gransport at Ferrari/Maserati of San Francisco, and (if it's your thing) a really gorgeous ice-metallic-silverblue one at Ferrari of Silicon Valley. From what I recall, the FSV one has just about all the extras you'd want and none of the superfluous ones. Dark blue leather inside, with the blue "nomex" or whatever-it-is trim. If they haven't sold it yet, it's a showstopper of a car.
This is what the GS interior of a Fuji Bianco White (Pearl white) exterior looks like.... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My only objection to the LH was that in my 2002 it prevented the sun visor from being able to swing around to the side window, because its bulk got in the way. If I were buying again, I would not get the LH, both because of the above and because it just seemed to me on the "heavy" side and a bit claustrophobic. (And of course the LH is not a cheap option.) The regular headliner is already very nice.
You can actually order the GS in Fuji with a variety of interior colors/materials, but I think you've got the best one. That's the same combination that was in the ice-blue-metallic GS that i saw at Ferrari/Maserati of Silicon Valley. Stopped by yesterday but it had been sold (no great surprise). They now just have a grigio GS in the showroom. FYI They say that a limited edition of the GS is very definitely a "go" but don't have details yet from Maserati North America, except probably one car max per dealership.
Lung, is that the nav-system option in your GS? Your radio/cd unit looks different than the black one that comes standard. v
For some Italian reason, the nav system option for the GS is an arm and a leg more in price than in the regular coupé/spyder, and you don't even get the videoscreen.
Everythings expensive in the GS. Like $600 for red calipers, c'mon! Does anyone have a price list of the options for the GS?
Actually, I'm 99.99% sure, Maserati offers an option Nav system for the GS --- the the unit fold out.
The GS nav option does not change the headunit at all. The current GS headunit is an OEM version of the Becker On-line Pro. Those GS cars with Nav option have a external module that connects to the same head unit as non Nav optioned cars. The Nav instructions appear as text commands and arrows on the head unit face...no map. This option also comes with a GSM phone.
