Overview of Maserati
Maserati has a long history. Four brothers of his family founded Maserati in Cologne, Italy in 19 14, and produced the first car, Tipo26, in 1926. The founder, Afr Maserati, went into battle and personally drove Tipo26 to participate in the car race and won the prize. Maserati Automobile Company is a company specializing in the production of sports cars and enjoys a high reputation in Europe. Maserati sports car combines traditional style and popular style in styling design, and is first-class in appearance, mechanical performance, comfort and safety.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of Maserati's name
The name "Maserati" [1] comes from an ordinary family in Voghera. Rodolfo Maserati, a train driver, and his wife * * * raised six boys: Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, ettore, Ernest and Mario.
Maserati sports car (photo 1) 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] History of Maserati
The first Maserati car with the trident logo was launched in Targa Florio on April 25th, 1926/kloc-0. 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.
[Edit this paragraph] Maserati China Company
In August 2004, Ferrari Maserati Automobile International Trade (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was formally established in Shanghai. The joint venture company is mainly composed of Maserati and China Poly Technology Co., Ltd. at the Ferrari Auto Show in Italy, 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, Nanjing, Chongqing and Dalian). Among them, Nanjing and Dalian are both subsidiaries of Hongkong Hutchison Bank in Chinese mainland.