Rare 1970s Maserati spotted?

[sider]

On the way home from the NW breakfast meet on Saturday, i saw what i thought to be a Citroen SM come up behind me, a white one - but it passed and was a Maserati.

Just had a look at Wikipedia and nothing obvious on there.

However, google has since revealed that Citroen did a car called the SM Maserati - however, some called it the Quattroporte II.

Anyone any further info?

Someone may know the owner perhaps - he pulled into Charnock Richard services on the M6 Southbound near Preston, approx 12.30pm on Saturday.

[blueg33]

sider said:

On the way home from the NW breakfast meet on Saturday, i saw what i thought to be a Citroen SM come up behind me, a white one - but it passed and was a Maserati.

Just had a look at Wikipedia and nothing obvious on there.

However, google has since revealed that Citroen did a car called the SM Maserati - however, some called it the Quattroporte II.

Anyone any further info?

Someone may know the owner perhaps - he pulled into Charnock Richard services on the M6 Southbound near Preston, approx 12.30pm on Saturday.

To many the Citroen SM was a Maserati. Maserati was owned by Citroen and the car has a Maserati engine. Maybe someone had done a bit of "badge engineering"

[AndrewW-G]

Nobody called it a Quattroporte, as the Citroen SM has only 2 doors

This is a Quattroporte II

Edited by AndrewW-G on Monday 1st March 14:47

[blueg33]

AndrewW-G said:

Nobody called it a Quattroporte, as the Citroen SM has only 2 doors

This is a Quattroporte II

Edited by AndrewW-G on Monday 1st March 14:47

Built on an SM chassis I believe

[williamp]

Quattroporte and SM are two seperate cars. The SM was a joint venture between maserati and Citroen, using Cirtoen styling and hydraulics, and a maserati engine. A great combination if you geta good one. I dont think the SM had maserati badges, though.