Maserati GranCabrio review

Here’s the thing that makes all this fairly tricky for Maserati. The old car was expensive, but not that expensive. Ten years ago the old 4.7-litre V8 listed £111,000. The new Trofeo starts at £169,585, and is unlikely to come in under £200k once some spec has been thrown at it. Careful what you spend on – no real need to upgrade the standard Sonus Faber 14-speaker, 860-watt hifi for instance.

But Maserati’s used values have always slumped. Ten year old cars with 30-40,000 miles on the clock are, well, £30-40,000. Which means the new car is likely to undergo a hefty drop. Let’s not make the mistake of assuming Maserati is alone here – the same big drops apply to luxury four seat cabs across the board, including Bentley’s Continental GTC.

There is good news for running costs though – that V6, if you drive it as a convertible ought to be driven, is pretty efficient: we saw a best of 33mpg against a claimed WLTP of 26.6mpg. Overall the Trofeo settled in at around the 24-25mpg mark. In the Folgore we recorded around 2.5mi/kWh.