RE: The Brave Pill: Maserati 4200GT

[anonymous-user]

jakesmith said:

Raygun said:

Hope nothing too serious with the R8, remember you saying you'd bought one, saw a blue colour R8 the other day and looked great.

It’s cost me £8k since I bought it in October. Now admittedly over half of that was on unnecessary upgrades and some of the rest was hunting down issue caused by the upgrades. Still smarts though but the car seems to be completely sorted now at last.

It has a decent aftermarket exhaust on but the Audi engine can’t even look at the Maserati Ferrari derived V8 for sound an fun I miss it badly. My friend thinks the Maserati sound is down to a unique cylinder firing order. All I can say is whilst the r8 is loud, the Maserati was seductive, musical, dramatic etc.

If I won the lottery I would have another Maserati as my GT car. They are understated yet so aggressive looking and sound sensational

This article has had me thinking about a 4200 as a runabout / station car! Last time I did that, I bought a 987S for that purpose and it ended badly!

So not really the car's fault Jake, hopefully a few years of no outlay now then.
I do like the Maserati and after a year of ownership I still have no regrets, the oil changes I do myself, got a local guy who can do things like clutch change because no special equipment needed on the manual cars,just need the weather to improve a bit to get out on the open road.

[Contigo]

burpface said:

I am sorry contigo but I've got to call you out as wrong on this, as you were also proved wrong over on sportmaserati when you expressed the same sentiment.

I have driven 6 manual examples and found this only to be the case in one of them. If the cables aren't correctly aligned, then yes the gear change is poor. However when set up correctly (as should've left the factory!?) The gear change is great. This is also echoed by other owners of manual cars. Equally on discussion with autosheild this is there experience and they recommend keeping the cable greased as part of service.

Mine changes gear precisely with only fingertip control. I'll add that it is a much easier gear change than my z4mc was (and that wasn't bad just a little clunky when cold).

Prospective owners should be advised to drive a few to ensure they are getting the best example.

That's fine and based on my ownership experience. Also David Ciconi (sp) who reviewed the manual said the same about rhe disconnect on his DRIVE video posted on youtube.

I ain't calling anyone out as wrong just stating what I found and what I also found from the manual 3200's. The best box is the CC for me but again it's all subjective.

No one proved me wrong over there too. See above.....

[jakesmith]

V12GT said:

Funnily enough - I’m looking at either a 987S (Gen 2) or a 4200. Thought I’d be safer in the Porsche, but did you have IMS issues with it or was it something else?

I got away light with the 987S - steering rack, tyres, coolant pipes - all in about £2.5k, but only owned it for 9 months
The Porsches are great cars but they are really not that reliable or cheap to run in my experience, the Maserati is way more of an event. I had a 987S at the same time as the GT so a goodcomparison. If you like hooning etc the Porsche will handle better

[limpsfield]

I had one of these for a couple of years.

The running costs are in my profile - it was not cheap, I am not going back there to look...

Still love them - gorgeous design I think.

Here was mine in its natural habitat.

Edited by limpsfield on Thursday 21st March 14:45

[carinaman]

There's one for £7K on eBay that comes with the parts to replace the clutch. Seems it's slightly incontinent too. I thought it may be of interest for PHers with the skills and spanners.