- Maserati and Stellantis executives have confirmed that the historic luxury brand isn’t disappearing anytime soon.
- Maserati is reportedly developing a new electric SUV and a shooting brake-style crossover, per a report from Auto Express.
- A thorough plan outlining Maserati’s future will reportedly be revealed this December in Modena, Italy.
A Maserati-sized seat was empty at the Paris auto show this week, but the automaker is gearing up for a big reveal in December, according to a report from Auto Express. To revive a dwindling lineup, Maserati is reportedly preparing to revive the Levante as an EV SUV and reinvent the Quattroporte.
Maserati has struggled for a while. Slipping sales, expensive import tariffs, and an uncertain future have weighed on the Italian brand. In recent years, rumors have circulated about Maserati getting kicked out from under the Stellantis umbrella, but Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa told Bloomberg TV this week, as reported by Motor1, that Maserati isn’t getting the boot anytime soon.
However, to stay in the game, Maserati needs to roll out some big changes. Luckily, change is on the horizon, and we’ll get a glimpse of it by the end of this year. Filosa says a thorough plan will be presented in December that will include new products and technology.
Among the new products, Maserati CEO Santo Ficili says, is an electric SUV to fill in for the discontinued Levante. The original gas-powered Levante came with muscular twin-turbo V-6 or V-8 engines, but the proposed new Levante would get electric guts. Assuming the electric Levante has a similar footprint to its gas-powered predecessor, the new EV would slot in above the compact Grecale Folgore in Maserati’s electric SUV lineup.
Maserati is also looking to reimagine the Quattroporte. It has been a sedan since it was first introduced in the 1960s, but Filisi says the Quattroporte’s next silhouette won’t be sedan-shaped. Instead, it’ll likely become “something between a shooting brake and a crossover,” Filisi says, “a very low, big car.”
Though it appears Maserati has a lot on the horizon, nothing concrete has been announced yet. The December briefing will hopefully give us a better picture of what’s in store for the historic luxury brand.
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Alayna Wilkening grew up reading motorsport magazines and following her grandpa around his Chevrolet dealership's showroom floor. In true Hoosier fashion, her first car was a hot pink custom cardboard "Fiero-vette" for her kindergarten Kindy 500 race. She now autocrosses a 1994 Miata with her dad, which she learned to drive the night before her first event. Alayna went to Indiana University and graduated with a degree in journalism and a minor in graphic design. As a testament to her great taste in cars, her first real one was a metallic orange 2007 Chevy HHR, which she lovingly called "The Dumptruck."