Thursday 23rd September 2010

Spotted: Maserati Quattroporte Hearse

It's the way we'd like to go...

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For any petrolhead your final journey in a car is going to be an important one, so it's always been a disappointment to the more morbid of us in the PH office that so many Britons shuffle off this mortal coil in tatty Ford Scorpios and old Volvos.

Even the lucky ones will only make that last trip in a Merc E-class or nice-but-dull Jaguar or Daimler conversion.

This, then, is one reason why it might be good to die in Italy - because there you seem to have a chance of being carried off in this Maserati Quattroporte, which sounds good to us. Forget Fauré's requiem - 4.2-litres of Italian V8 is all we'd want for a send-off...

The only thing we don't know is - well - the first thing about it. So if there are any PHers out there who can shed light on what is probably Europe's fastest hearse (and certainly its coolest), do enlighten us...

 

[mat205125]

I hope the exhausts remain local.

[mgtony]

I wouldn't be seen dead in it.

[dienamic]

There's more than one. One was used at the Polish president's funeral last year

[Pothole]

Going by the logo on the truck it's the work of this mob: http://www.intercardesign.com/ check out the hideous 'RX400'.

[Freeb85]

That would make an awesome Ghostbusters car!!

[dafeller]

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/12/ouch-that-hears...

[Sagacitas]

Freeb85 said:

That would make an awesome Ghostbusters car!!

perfect!

[dafeller]

Ah, but not the first one! Check out the 1967 Quattroporte conversion on this page:

http://www.maserati-alfieri.co.uk/alfieri06uuuuuuu...

[14-7]

Wow, a quick search reveals quite a few stories on the Masser Hearse and the company that build it.

Someone needs to do their homework first.

[Johnpidge]

thats the way to go

[Davey S2]

Perfect car to take to Le Mans.

Stylish high speed run dow to La Sarthe with the back loaded up with beer and also a nice place to sleep.

[TTwiggy]

There's an XK8 hearse that parks in the car park of some offices near me in Camden sometimes. Lovely thing.

I think it might belong to Jonathan Ross' wife, as she has her production company based there.

[Pothole]

Johnpidge said:

thats the way to go

this is the way to go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNB4uSIdSs&fea...

[mammamia]

Fastest way to get to the funeral if the undertaker is late

[Bluebottle911]

For Mafiosi, presumably, or Berlusconi (or is that the same thing?).

I agree with comments about Volvos etc. For an Englishman, there is only one make of hearse and that is a Rolls-Royce, though maybe I'd stretch a point and go in a Bentley (there is an undertaker who regularly turns up at BDC Silverstone in a stretched Turbo R 6-door limo, complete with roof rack for the flowers, though whether he has a similar hearse, I do not know).

[jake15919]

Oh dear. That conversion looks like something someone has built in their shed, or built with their shed.

[Mark Wibble]

Pothole said:

this is the way to go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNB4uSIdSs&fea...

Providing the church and crematorium are 1/4 mile apart in a straight line :-)

[David87]

Awesome! I've always said I'm going to put that I want a V8 hearse in my will, so something like this would be perfect! No smelly diesel Volvo for me.

[jayfish]

Go on admit it who just hit up the classifieds looking for hearses? with the crazy notion of a big engine conversion

[dave stew]

Very cool. Could be everyday transport if you're a Goth!