Maserati
The company was created in nineteen forteen in Bologna, Italy, by six brothers with the family name Maserati. The brothers were (from oldest to youngest): Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore and Ernesto. Coming from an early passion for engineering they eventually rented their own workshop and started tinkering on various engineering projects, including their first automobile, in nineteen sixteen.
The Maserati brother’s first car was a two-seater designed primarily for racing. The car featured a one hundred and twenty brake horse power engine, quite something for their time. Upon the vehicle the brothers emblazoned their logo, the centrepiece a trident symbolising one of Bologna’s most famous monuments – the statue of Neptune. The badge was designed by Mario Maserati, one of the brothers whom took an interest, and had a passion for art, in addition to automobiles.
Three years later, having obtained some notoriety and clearly become a favourite with racing drivers, one of their models, the three point five litre V4, was driven by Baconin Borzacchini setting a world speed record. Shattering such a record promoted the image of the Maserati brothers even further, and were now recognised as being at the forefront of car engineers at that time.
You can be sure that such powerful cars do not come cheap and if you are worried about the car insurance premium then you probaby should be looking elsewhere, all the car insurance groups of the Maserati cars are insurance group 20.
Today, Maserati continue to produce high quality, high performance vehicles, some of the most popular in the UK being:
Maserati Coupe – a compact, lightweight model, with a massive three hundred and seventy brake horse power. The Coupe’s acceleration is highly impressive with an ultra fast zero to sixty in four point nine seconds. Naturally the car insurance premium for such a beast of a car is twenty. Prices on the around are about fifty six thousand pounds.
Maserati Spyder – the Spyder is another typically sporty Maserati model, at a higher price than the Coupe at just over sixty thousand pounds. For your money you get a convertible that both turns heads and has the extra acceleration under the bonnet when you need it. If you are unsure of the of the car insurance group, it is 20.
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