Italian cars have "two kings and one queen". The two kings are Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati.
Carlo, the eldest son, took the lead in the field of mechanical design and designed a single-cylinder engine for a motorcycle factory. Later, he took part in some races by driving a motorcycle produced by the factory, and set a speed record of 50 km/h at 1900. 190 1 year, Carlo worked in fiat for a while, and then transferred to Lsotta Fraschini as a mechanic, where he managed to introduce Pinto, Alfieri and Edole to the company. Besides, Carlo is a pretty good racing driver. On 1907, he took part in Bianchi's game. Although the car often broke down halfway, Carlo won the seventh place. Later, Carlo and his younger brother Edole started a company specializing in the production of high and low voltage transformers for automobiles. Carol's career was short and brilliant. At the age of 29, she died of injuries in a car race.
1914121day, Alfieri, Edole and Ernest founded the official Alfieri Maserati Association of Anoni. At the beginning of the company's establishment, its main business was to use cars in road races. [Edit this paragraph] Maserati's history The first Maserati car with the trident logo appeared in the Targa Florio race on April 25th, 1926. The Maserati Tipo 26, driven by Alfieri and designed and manufactured by Maserati Brothers, uses a 1.5-liter inline eight-cylinder engine with a top speed of 100 mph. Alfieri's younger brother Mario designed the car as a trident on a leaf-shaped base. The design was inspired by Neptune, the city emblem of Bologna where the company is located. He holds a trident, a weapon that shows its great power, which indicates that Maserati will cause a great sensation in the world after it comes out. Maserati won the Targe Florio competition on its debut. Later, due to the success of Type 26 in some competitions, Maserati began to consider producing racing cars. In the following ten years, Maserati successively launched classic models such as Tipo 26B, Maserati V4, Maserati 4CTR and Maserati 4CL, and won the "Italian Grand Prix" and "Tripoli Grand Prix" with their perfect combination of performance and quality.
1932 In March, Alfieri Maserati, one of the founders of the company, bid farewell to his beloved racing career forever. His departure is undoubtedly good news for the immature Maserati. However, due to poor management, the company went from bad to worse. 1937 sold part of its shares to the orsi family, and its headquarters moved to Modena.
At the same time, despite the strong competition from Mercedes-Benz, Maserati won a series of races, especially on May 30th, 1939, which was a day that Maserati was really proud of. A driver won the 500-mile race in Indianapolis, USA, and won it again the next year, that is, 1940.
During World War II, Maserati began to produce machine tools, electrical components, spark plugs and other electronic equipment. After the war, the factory resumed production and developed a new high-performance car-A61500. At the same time, A6GCS appeared black and pink. Facing the aggressive competition between Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, A6GCS still won the Modena Tour. Unfortunately, the annual output of Italian cars in World War II only reached 28,982, which directly affected the sales of Maserati.
In order to get out of the shadow of war as soon as possible, in the 1950s and 1960s, Italian automobile companies began to continuously improve their products and put into production new models. Maserati is no exception. It turned out that the early 1950s was indeed the climbing period of Maserati. At first it was Alfa Romeo. Later, with the competition from Ferrari, Maserati had to consider using Gioacchino Crobu, who had taken the lead in improving A6GCM, as the chief engineer at 1953, and reorganize the team to win the race again. Among them, Maserati beat Ferrari in the 1953 Italian drivers' grand prix.
At that time, Crobu was still busy designing the Maserati 250F. 1954, 250F won the Argentine GP-the first victory after its birth. 1955 and 1956 were busy and fruitful seasons for the team, until 1957 Maserati 250F won the fifth championship, which was also Maserati's supreme honor. It was also in this year that Maserati officially announced its retirement from motor racing. This is not a complete "turn" action. In fact, Maserati continues to manufacture racing cars for some private teams, such as birdcages and other models, even though it is no longer directly involved. But also keep close contact with F 1 events. For example, a 3-liter V 12 engine was built for the Cooper team at 1965.
Looking back on the history of more than 30 years, Maserati has won nearly 500 complete victories and countless staged victories. * * * has won 23 championships and 32 Formula One championships, becoming the only Italian brand to win the Indianapolis 500-mile race twice. Maserati is among the best in all races, from the rally in Colorado to the sailing in Venice. What is unique here is its incredible versatility-on the track, on the road, on the ramp, or in the grand prix and endurance races. Besides on land, Maserati also won the water rowing competition.
With the release of 1958 3500GT, Maserati began to turn its attention from racing cars to production cars, and accordingly, the scale of the factory began to expand. Until 1968, Maserati successively developed some classic models, such as birdcage series, Mistral, Sebring, Ghibli and so on. Among them, the Quattroporte is the first four-door car with a 4. 136 liter engine and a cylinder angle of 90 V8 in Maserati history.
1968, Maserati formed an alliance with French Citroen and Italian Fiat to produce Citroen SM cars, but SM caused financial disaster, which made Maserati face huge financial difficulties. Until 1975, Detomaso Automobile Company injected 38% capital into Maserati, and the Italian government injected the remaining 62% capital, Maserati finally got out of the predicament.
At that time, Italy's domestic automobile industry was also in a state of depression. Although the output of 654.38+0963 exceeded 6.5438+0000, it became the sixth largest automobile producer in the world at that time, and the annual output of 654.38+0957994 reached its peak. However, due to the influence of the world energy crisis and the increasingly fierce competition in the international automobile market, in the worldwide economic recession in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the automobile industry market declined, and its output declined, with the annual output dropping from1433086,000 to 1983.
Under such climatic conditions, in 1983, Maserati's sales began to increase exponentially due to the production of twin-turbo engines, so in 1984, the company planned to produce 9,000 twin-turbo engines and 1000 425 cars, but it was not realized due to various reasons such as capital cost.
In the 1990s, in order to re-enter the ranks of world automobile powers, the Italian government called on domestic automobile enterprises to develop new products, improve the level of production automation, reduce costs and strengthen their competitiveness in the international market. It also advocates the adoption of cross-company or even transnational joint operation mode within the automobile industry, aiming at concentrating the production capacity and resources of industrial vehicles, exchanging production technologies with each other and learning from each other's strengths. Improve production level, reduce cost and improve competitiveness.
In this context, Fiat 1993 acquired Maserati, but the brand was preserved. Four years later, in July 1, 997 1, Maserati merged with Ferrai S.P.A The 3200GT was the first sports car produced after the merger of the two factories, which combined the traditions and technologies of the two sports car manufacturers. With the perfect combination of its excellent performance and ride comfort, it caused a great sensation at the subsequent Paris Motor Show in France, and made Maserati re-enter.
The Maserati Spyder launched at the 200 1 Frankfurt Motor Show and the Maserati Coupe launched at the Detroit Motor Show in 2002 are both manual GT, using the Cambiocorsa electric gearbox specially built for racing cars in Italy. Sports cars are the crystallization of the top technology of contemporary cars from the inside out. The new Coupe has all the technical attributes of Spyder, such as a 4.2-liter V8 engine with a maximum horsepower of 287kW/7000rpm, a maximum torque of 48 1Nm/7000rpm and a maximum speed of 175 mph. Its explosive power is amazing, and it only takes 4.9 seconds from standstill to 100 km/h, Tiangou. The interior combines Maserati's unique elegance, fashion and safety, and Coupe also provides consumers with a comfortable space for four people.
Modena's factory completely updated all production equipment including production lines and replaced them with brand-new ultra-modern production lines, thus becoming the most advanced small-batch automobile factory in the world today. The year 2000 marks the reorganization technology of sales network. A brand-new building and tower will be erected on the original site of Maserati as the headquarters of the new company, and correspondingly there will be a multi-storey parking lot serving 400 employees of the company.
The second production line of the factory is about to start. A five-year restructuring plan with a total investment of 4 billion euros is also being implemented and is expected to be completed in 2006. This investment is equivalent to 20% of the average annual sales. At this point, Maserati's efforts have achieved initial results: car sales increased from 65438+666 in 0998 to 2027 in 2000. The sales volume of 200 1 year is slightly higher than that of 2000. The reason for the small increase in sales volume is that Quattroporte has stopped production, while Spyder has just put into production, which directly affects the sales volume of 200 1. However, when the second production line of the factory was completed and put into use in 2002, when Spyder and new Copue started mass production, the company planned to increase the sales volume to more than 3,500 vehicles per year. We look forward to Maserati's take-off again! [Edit this paragraph] China Company In August 2004, Ferrari Maserati Automobile International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was formally established in Shanghai. The joint venture company is mainly established by Italian Ferrari and China Poly Technology Co., Ltd. * *, and Ferrari holds the main shares in the joint venture company.
As the general agent of Ferrari and Maserati in China, Ferrari Maserati Automobile International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is mainly responsible for the brand management of Ferrari and Maserati in China, providing sales of complete vehicles, parts and accessories to the authorized dealer network, as well as after-sales service and product technical support, and providing meticulous customer service to China customers in line with global standards of Ferrari and Maserati.
By the end of 2006, the company has completed the construction of 1 1 distribution and after-sales service networks in nine most important cities in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Kunming, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu, Xiamen, Chongqing and Dalian).
[Edit this paragraph] Model display Maserati * * * has six models, namely:
1. Maserati GranTurismo price: 1.79 million RMB displacement: 4244 transmission mode: F 1 6-speed electronic transmission wheelbase: 2942 engine mode: 8-cylinder 90 V drive mode: maximum power of rear drive: 298kw/7 100rpm maximum.
2. Maserati Coupe Price:1.2000 RMB Displacement: 4244 gearbox mode: automatic 6-speed wheelbase: 2660 engine mode: double camshaft overhead V8 drive mode: maximum power of rear drive: 287 kW/7000 rpm and maximum torque: 45 1Nm/4500 rpm.
3. Maserati spyder price: 65,438+0,380,000 RMB displacement: 4,244 gearbox mode: automatic 6-speed wheelbase: 2,440 engine mode: double overhead cam V8 drive mode: rear drive maximum power: 298 kW/765,438+000 rpm maximum torque: 4,560 rpm.
4. Maserati Gransport Price: 65,438+0,280,000 RMB Displacement: 4,244 Gearbox Mode: F 1 6-speed electronic gearbox wheelbase: 2,660 Engine Mode: 8-cylinder 90 V drive mode: maximum power of rear drive: 295 kW/000 rpm, maximum torque.
5. Maserati Quattroporte price: 265,438+03.80-2.458 million RMB displacement: 46,965,438+0 transmission mode: automatic 6-speed wheelbase: 3064 engine mode: double camshaft overhead V8 wet oil pan drive mode: maximum power of rear drive: 365,438+07kW/7000.
6. Maserati MC 12 Price:128,000 RMB displacement: 5998 Transmission mode: automatic 6-speed wheelbase: 2800 Engine form: naturally aspirated V 12 Engine drive mode: maximum power of rear drive: 462kw/7500rpm, maximum torque: 652 nm/.