THIS IS BRILLIANT news for all sports car friends: A new Maserati Coupé powerful enough really to challenge Porsche 911.

The new Italian is the most comprehensively advanced car in the high performance GT sector; with 390 bhp it is 70 bhp more powerful than the “direct” competitor from Stuttgart, the Porsche 911 Carrera Coupé.

The Maserati Coupé offers 390 bhp from a totally new 4200 cm3
V8 engine in aluminium alloy, teamed with genuine spacious comfort for
four adults (Maserati tells us).

Michael Schumacher drivers are offered a Formula 1 style gearshift, which can also be used in the fully automatic version. Other features are leather and luxury material interior trim, and the optimum weight distribution guaranteed by the advanced Transaxle layout of the rear gearbox-differential assembly.

The Coupé offers a unique combination of top level performance, with a
maximum speed of 285 km/h and acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in
4.9 seconds, and interior space, with room for four passengers,
and a boot, which can comfortably hold two golf bags.
The innovative lines of the model are completely new, and line up alongside
the recently presented Spyder.
The Coupé and the Spyder will be presented together at the Los Angeles
and Detroit motor shows, heralding Maserati return to North America.

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Later today we publish the complete story on the car including images of the engine and the interior. You will find it under the menu “Feature”.

FACTS
· New Maserati Coupé
· V8 normal-aspiration V8 engine
· 4200 cm3
· 390 bhp
· 4.0 sec., 285 km/h
· Launch: Los Angeles and Detroit motor shows, January 2002

Images
1) Maserati Coupé 2002. 2 + 3) The same rear lights as the Maserati Spyder.