Simone Niccolai, Managing Director Asia Pacific and Ashish Chordia, MD Shreyans Group (Maserati’ official distributor in India) pose for a picture with the 4-door Maserati at the event held in Delhi this afternoon.
IAB representative Ujwaldeep Singh attended the launch of Maserati brand in India this morning and was shocked to find out that the entire lineup was made available to Indian buyers. Bookings were formally opened today, but deliveries will begin only by July.
Here are pointers from today’s press conference -
# In 2014 Maserati will complete its successful 100 years
# Selling cars in 62 countries + India = 63 countries now, worldwide
# 1st dealership in India will be in Mumbai, 2nd will come up in New Delhi in early 2012
# Seek to open up 7 functional dealerships in India by 2015
# 5,776 cars were delivered across the world in 2010. 18% growth from past year
# US is the largest market for Maserati. China No.4 and largest in Asia (54% growth compared to past year)
# Bookings for the entire lineup now open.
# Deliveries shall start by July-Aug this year
# Prices subject to the contents that customer will be willing to put in the car
# Project on building up a SUV is in process. Timeline was not divulged.
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It’s raining supercars in India. After Bugatti, Ferrari and Koenigsegg, it is the turn of Maserati to turn heads in India. Maserati will announce its range of cars in India in a press conference on the 6th of April in Delhi. These three cars in Maserati lineup will be eagerly anticipated in India – the four-door Quattroporte, GranTurismo coupé (pictured) and the GranCabrio convertible model (pictured). Starting price will be upward of one crore rupees, with the range topping variant costing not more than 1.5 crores.
IAB will be present at the launch to bring you live updates with all the exact details, so stay tuned!
Motoroids is reporting that Aston Martin is going to officially land on Indian shores by the end of this year. The cult British car maker is looking to start with a dealership in Delhi and Mumbai, the two sure-shot markets for exotic vehicles.
The company will be introducing the V8 Vantage, DBS and the recently unveiled four-door saloon, the Rapide. The company might not launch the V12 version of the Vantage in the Indian market.
The prices for the cars is expected to begin at around 1.25 crore rupees for the V8 vantage and could go upto 2.95 crores for the top of the range DBS.
With Aston Martin also set to officially make its India entry, the two boxes that aren’t checked are Ferrari and Maserati.
Alfas and Maseratis greet guest at the Auto Expo next month
Carwale is reporting Fiat will bring cars from the Alfa Romeo and Maserati stable to the Auto Expo next month. Fiat will exhibit a new dark blue color Linea along with 1.6-liter Multijet engine and 1.4-liter T-Jet engine variants in its booth.
The above cars will be accompanied by the facelifted Palio, a Fiat 500 and the Bravo, sources add.
Fiat is looking at amplifying its powertrain instead of its portfolio. It plans to rebuild the Fiat brand by selling many variants of the Palio, Punto and Linea as possible in India. We have also learned Fiat is looking to bring commercial vehicles and the first model that comes to mind is the Palio strada pickup truck.
We have to wait till the Auto Expo to learn more on these models.
