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Since 2002, every Maserati has a Ferrari-built engine under its hood unless we’re dealing with the VM Motori turbo diesel. How sacrilegious is this motor, you wonder? Well, all you need to know is that the A 630 / L 630 series is shared with the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Ram 1500.
Moving on, the Prancing Horse will stop supplying the House of the Trident with engines by 2021 or 2022 at the latest according to Ferrari chairman Louis Camilleri. One replacement will come in the guise of a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 powerplant, replacing the 3.8-liter of the F154 series.
A twin-turbo V6 with 3.6 liters of displacement is also expected, first in the MC20 mid-engine supercar that Maserati loves to tease in blurred pictures. After doing exactly that in March 2020, the Italian automaker did it again in May 2020 even though the prototype is all camouflaged.
Pictured at the Floriopoli stands of the Targa Florio open-road endurance race, the MC20 is currently being tested “in different conditions of us with the aim of gathering data and information for the final fine-tuning.” A rather important vehicle for Maserati, the indirect successor of the MC12 will be revealed in Modena in September if all goes according to plan.
The press release at the end of this article mentions a “new engine developed and built in-house” by Maserati, but the marketing people didn’t mention the number of cylinders, displacement, and if we’re dealing with forced induction or natural aspiration. Whatever the future holds, it’s worth highlighting the MC20 will also be available as a three-motor electric supercar.
In addition to e-AWD thanks to an electrified front axle, the e-MC20 or whatever it will be called promises 100 km/h (62 mph) in approximately two seconds and more than 300 km/h (186 mph) flat out.
In a meeting with public authorities and unions from February 2019, Maserati has also confirmed that “pre-series production cars of a totally new model will roll off these lines starting in the first half of next year.” You've guessed it; the automaker is referring to the Modena plant and the mid-engine fellow in the photo gallery instead of the now-defunct Alfieri.
A twin-turbo V6 with 3.6 liters of displacement is also expected, first in the MC20 mid-engine supercar that Maserati loves to tease in blurred pictures. After doing exactly that in March 2020, the Italian automaker did it again in May 2020 even though the prototype is all camouflaged.
Pictured at the Floriopoli stands of the Targa Florio open-road endurance race, the MC20 is currently being tested “in different conditions of us with the aim of gathering data and information for the final fine-tuning.” A rather important vehicle for Maserati, the indirect successor of the MC12 will be revealed in Modena in September if all goes according to plan.
The press release at the end of this article mentions a “new engine developed and built in-house” by Maserati, but the marketing people didn’t mention the number of cylinders, displacement, and if we’re dealing with forced induction or natural aspiration. Whatever the future holds, it’s worth highlighting the MC20 will also be available as a three-motor electric supercar.
In addition to e-AWD thanks to an electrified front axle, the e-MC20 or whatever it will be called promises 100 km/h (62 mph) in approximately two seconds and more than 300 km/h (186 mph) flat out.
In a meeting with public authorities and unions from February 2019, Maserati has also confirmed that “pre-series production cars of a totally new model will roll off these lines starting in the first half of next year.” You've guessed it; the automaker is referring to the Modena plant and the mid-engine fellow in the photo gallery instead of the now-defunct Alfieri.
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