Maserati Quattroporte (2008) – Facelift Friday

Of course, which Quattroporte you think of first depends mainly on your age. Still, we think the fifth generation, which appeared in 2004, is a slightly more memorable car than the current one. That’s primarily because the current Quattroporte has to share its status as a four-door Maserati with the smaller and more popular Ghibli, which it also strongly resembles. In addition, the previous generation of the model was a huge revolution from the Quattroporte before it. In 2004, instead of a straight-lined, chunky sedan, there was a gracefully lined four-door with a low profile and rounded shapes.

Little competition

With that design, Maserati got a lot of hands on each other, although there are evil tongues who claim that the back looks a bit like that of a Daewoo Nubira. In any case, the large grille, small headlights and high shoulders made it significantly sportier than the competition’s sedans, if there were any in 2004. Later the Maserati would find the Aston Martin Rapide and Porsche Panamera in the segment of luxury top athletes with rear doors, but the Quattroporte was there, even if we limit ourselves to this generation, clearly earlier.

Pointier

Four years after its introduction, Maserati presented a facelifted version. At first glance, not much has changed. We see more or less the same layout of the front, with a still quite large and low grille. The fact that the post-2008 edition looks very different in practice is simply because almost everything is slightly different. The headlights are larger and more pointed, the grille’s width point is in a different place, the accent lines of the bumper are higher and the front is just a bit tighter as a whole. This makes the Maserati appear more confident and definitely more modern, helped by new lighting technology for headlights and (LED) taillights.