In the Maserati family, Carlo, the eldest son, is the leader in the field of mechanical design. 17 years old, he designed his first single-cylinder engine and installed it on a bicycle, so he won the rally of 1900. In Turin, he used his spare time to design a brand-new single-cylinder engine, which was installed on the wooden car chassis. In a sense, this can be regarded as the birth of the first Maserati, and since then, it has been the leader of the times. 1907 switched to Bianchi team, and took part in the prestigious Kaiser Price German race with the car of this team, and won the ninth place. From 65438 to 0908, Carlo became the general manager of "Little Milan" automobile company. After setting up his own company, he naturally won't give up his love for cars, but the publicly announced goal of the company is to design and produce aircraft engines with excellent performance, and he has already had sponsors in aircraft research and development. However, in 19 10, a lung disease took away his life and future dreams.
19 14 years, Alfieri Maserati, Bindo Maserati and Ernesto Maserati*** jointly founded the company Officini Alfieri Maserati. The main business of the new company is car modification, and at the same time, it is committed to using Autofasini cars in road races. Thanks to the efforts of Maserati brothers, the company's business has been expanding. 1925, the company changed its name to the official Alfieri Maserati of Societe Anonima. At the same time, the company began to use the trident as the company logo, based on the statue of Neptune, which stands in Maggiore Square in Polonia, and was designed by Mario Maserati.
Alfieri Maserati manufactured Tipo 26 in 1926, which was the first pure Maserati car and the first racing car with the trident logo. Tipo 26 made its debut on April 25th of the same year and participated in Targa Florio Endurance Race. This car is equipped with 1.5L inline eight-cylinder engine, and the top speed is160 km/h/h. Alfieri Maserati participated in Targa Florio in Tipo26 for 26 years and won the first place in its class. Subsequently, Tipo26 won many victories in other competitions. Since then, Maserati has begun to consider producing racing cars.
With the process of urbanization, cars no longer just pursue racing speed, but gradually become a part of daily life. Maserati complied with the needs of the times and applied its racing research and development achievements to the research and development of road sports cars. When luxury and unrestrained sports are naturally and perfectly integrated, comfort and passionate driving pleasure are equally important, and generation after generation of models have concentrated their unique brand essence and connotation. After Alfieri Maserati won the third place in Targa Florio, he had a serious accident while driving Tipo 26B in Messina Cup on 1927. Even without this general, Maserati won the championship of the Italian manufacturer. 1929, Baknin Polzacchini drove a V4 sports car with a 16 cylinder engine, and made an outstanding performance in the Italian Grand Prix in cremona for the first time, setting a world C-class speed record of 246.069 km/h (the driving distance exceeded 10 km). The record created by V4 further enhanced the company's image, ensured the influx of a large amount of funds, and expanded the company and various activities. 1930, Polzachini won Maserati's first grand prix in Tripoli with V4.
193 1 year, 4CTR, the representative work of Alfieri Maserati, the front-wheel drive 8C2500 came out, 1932 died on March 3rd. Thousands of people-including factory workers, famous drivers and ordinary people-came to Boloni to attend his grand funeral to express their memory of this great man. The Maserati brothers were not saddened by Alfieri's death. Bindo left Isotta Fraschini and returned to Bologna to take over the enterprise founded by Alfieri, Ernest and Ettore. Maserati's competition was fierce and successful, and an 8-cylinder 3-liter engine was also successfully developed.
Tazio Nuvolari joined in 1933, and made outstanding contributions in technology, especially in the improvement of the chassis, so that the chassis can adapt to the characteristics of the new engine. Nuvolari won the Belgian Grand Prix, Montenello Grand Prix and Nice Grand Prix. At this time, Mercedes-Benz and Automobile Union started the continuous fierce competition on the field, which made Maserati struggling in these important events. Nevertheless, the company has gained a lot in domestic small-scale competitions, which makes Maserati brothers focus on this field. 1936, a sponsor known by Maserati brothers in Gino Rovere invested a lot of money in the company and appointed his confidant nino farina as the chairman of the company. After the advent of 6CM, Maserati gained a competitive advantage in the field of small cars. Due to the poor management of Maserati, 1937, the company sold part of its shares to the orsi family and moved its headquarters 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.
1939 September, when World War II broke out, Maserati temporarily stopped the manufacture of sports cars and began to produce electronic equipment such as machine tools and spark plugs. Maserati first participated in Targa Florio in 1926. At that time, Tipo26, the first car made by Maserati, won the competition. 1939 and 1940, Wilbur Shaw won the Indianapolis 500 race twice by driving an 8CTF car (nicknamed "Boyle Car" after the sponsor), making Maserati the first Italian manufacturer to win this race, which is still one of the most important races in the world.
Other glorious moments in history include Stirling Moss winning the 1000km race in New Boglin 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio winning the Formula One World Championship in 250F 1957, and Fangio Behra and Moss Schell driving the 450S and 300S racing cars in Sebrin respectively. In its 30-year history, Maserati has won nearly 500 races and numerous grading competitions, which is a brilliant record. In addition, even after 1957 Maserati officially withdrew from the racing competition, many private drivers still drove Maserati cars or cars equipped with Maserati engines to win the race.
After the war, Maserati factory resumed the production of sports cars at 1947, and launched the A6 sports car designed by Pininfarina. Alberto ascari made his successful debut at Modena circuit driving A6G CS, and in the following years, he had wonderful contests with Al Fitas, Ferrari and Talbot. After that, Maserati won several victories, but then the strong rise of Alfa Romeo and Ferrari put the company in trouble in the 1950s.
From 65438 to 0953, Giorgio Crobu was the chief engineer, improving A6GCM. The joining of Fangio, Gonzá lez, Marimon, bonetto and de graaf Nieder greatly increased the strength of the team, and won many important victories for the company in the 1953 season, including Fangio's Italian Grand Prix. In fact, Fangio's Maserati overtook Ascari and Farina's Ferrari after the last corner. Maserati won several important victories in 1955 and 1956. Fangio returned to Maserati on 1957 and won the world championship for the fifth time, which was the first world championship he won for Maserati by driving the 250F. 1957, Maserati officially quit racing and began to focus on the development of civilian models, but Maserati still paid attention to racing and constantly introduced F 1 engines. 1959, Maserati introduced 3500 GT and 5000 GT. As one of the most beautiful coupes in Maserati's history, 3500 GT has been wildly sought after by people. Subsequently, Maserati launched the 5000 GT model, which was a customized model, and its customers were all dignitaries at that time. 1962, Maserati introduced Sebring two-seater sports car, which is the first generation of the current Quattroporte. At that time, the Quattroporte was known as the fastest large luxury four-door sedan in the world.
1968, citro 龙 n bought out all the shares of orsi family, and Adolf orsi still served as honorary chairman of the company. After Maserati was acquired by Citroen, it began to produce Bora, Mellac and khamsin. Bora designed by Giorgetto made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in 197 1, becoming the first batch of Maserati cars with mid-engine in mass production. Maserati occasionally produces racing engines. In the same year, Citroen SM with Maserati engine won the Moroccan Rally. With the launch of Merak and Khamsin, Maserati's output continues to grow rapidly.
1973 the oil crisis triggered by the fourth middle east war cast a shadow on the company's prospects, but the company still imported the QuattroporteII prototype and Merak SS from Bertone. On May 23rd, Citroen announced the liquidation of Maserati (the French automobile manufacturer has signed an agreement with Peugeot and lost interest in Maserati). Under the joint pressure of trade associations, local and provincial councils, the government was successfully persuaded to intervene, and GEPI (a government agency that provided funds to poor companies to keep jobs) took over Maserati, which escaped bankruptcy.
According to the agreement signed on August 8, 1975 by 1975, benelli and Alejandro de tommaso acquired most of the shares of Maserati, with Alejandro de tommaso as the general manager. The former Argentine racer once raced for Maserati. Despite the difficulties, the company gradually improved under the leadership of De Tomaso, and in 1976, it launched two new cars: Kyalami and QuattroporteIII designed by Giugiaro, which were previously unveiled at the Turin Motor Show. By the end of the year, the company's output has achieved a substantial increase. In 1980s, Maserati introduced Biturbo, a new car with relatively low price but excellent performance: this car has more than 30 different models, such as coupe, four-door sedan and spyde. In addition, the fourth generation Quattroporte was also born.
Maserati and Ferrari not only compete in the sports field, but also in the high-end coupe market. Ferrari's sports car products incorporate the design elements of Formula One racing cars, which can be said to be the ultimate high-performance sports car. The essence emphasizes the performance of sports cars. The first Maserati car with the trident logo was launched in Targa Florio on April 25th, 1926/kloc-0. Alfieri Maserati, one of the founders, went into battle in armor. Maserati Tipo 26 was designed and manufactured by Maserati Brothers, and it was powered by 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. 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 titles of Italian Grand Prix (Ltalian GP) and Tripoli GP with their perfect combination of performance and quality.
In the 1990s, in order to re-enter the ranks of world automobile powers, the Italian government called on domestic automobile enterprises to develop new products, improve the level of production automation, reduce costs and strengthen their competitiveness in the international market. It also advocates the adoption of cross-company or even transnational joint operation mode within the automobile industry, aiming at concentrating the production capacity and resources of industrial vehicles, exchanging production technologies with each other and learning from each other's strengths. Improve production level, reduce cost and improve competitiveness. In this context, Fiat 1993 acquired Maserati, but the brand was preserved. The same is true four years later.
In July 1997, 1, Maserati and Ferrai S.P.A merged. The 3200GT is the first sports car produced after the merger of the two factories, which combines the traditions and technologies of the two sports car manufacturers. With the perfect combination of its excellent performance and ride comfort, it caused a great sensation at the subsequent Paris Motor Show in France, making Maserati once again among the top GT sports in the world.
These two classic brands constitute a unique super sports car group in today's car world. In many later cars, they continued to develop their own space and made different kinds of cars. Ferrari advocates coupe, based on the most advanced technology in Formula One. Although the technical level of Maserati is equivalent to that of Ferrari, its performance will not be as extreme as that of Ferrari, but it will be more comfortable and will gradually evolve into a high-performance comfortable coupe for daily use.
In 2002, in north american auto show, Maserati finally returned to North America after a ten-year absence. In 2003, back in the game's Maserati launched the Trofeo racing car for the Trofeo Maserati European Championship (the car was developed from the road version of Coupé Cambiocorsa coupe, with lighter weight and better performance), which consisted of seven small endurance races, in which private drivers participated, and the famous European track was selected as the venue, as well as important events such as F 1, FIAGT and DTM. Inspired by the single brand competition that is very popular in Europe, Maserati's authorized dealers in Brazil adopted this form of competition, and in 2004, Trofeo Brazil was held in Brazil. Maserati directly manages Trofeo cars to ensure the highest level of preparation and commissioning.
Maserati also made Trofeo Light, a lighter and more powerful car for customers, which performed extremely well in the Grand Am Series in the United States and the GT Championship in Italy. This model also successfully completed the famous Spa 24-hour endurance race (GT3 class) in 2005.
In addition, Maserati also launched the racing version MC 12 in 2004, which was developed from a limited edition road supercar with the goal of participating in the FIAGT Championship. MC 12 was not only driven by private drivers to participate in FIAGT Championship (first and second place in 24 hours in SPA in 2005) and Italian GT competition, but also participated in the IMSA Le Mans Series on behalf of Maserati.
Based on the high-tech facilities in the north of Modena, Maserati Reparto Corse (Racing Department) has set up a highly skilled team composed of engineers, technicians and mechanics to be responsible for the operation and management of Trofeo series and Maserati GT 1 events.
In 2004, Maserati returned to the track and won the championship. This victory is attributed to an extraordinary racing car: MC 12. This super sports car was designed by George Giorgetto and Frank Stephenson, and was improved into a racing car by George Ascanelli, and won an unattainable honor. Since joining FIA GT in 2005, Maserati has won 65,438+04 awards (and 65,438+09 victories): two automobile manufacturers' cups (in 2005 and 2007) and five drivers' championships (in 2006, bartels-Bertolini；; Thomas biagi in 2007; Bartels/Bertolini in 2008, 2009 and 20 10); 6 team champions (since 2005, the Vitafeng team has won this honor for six consecutive years); 1citation cups (won by JMB's gentleman driver Ben Okut in 2007); In addition, he won three SPA 24-hour endurance races (2005, 2006 and 2008).
The 20 12 Maserati Trofeo MC World Championship was held in Europe, North America and Asia, presenting a more international event, and ended in China and Shanghai F 1 International Circuit. Thirty-five drivers took part in the race in 25 Maserati GranTurismo MC Trofeo cars, and Renaud Kuppens, a Belgian star driver from Konvex, won the championship.
20 13 12 13 Abu Dhabi -20 13 The sixth round and final of the Maserati MC Trofeo World Championship was held at 12- 13 at the F 1 track in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Renaud Kuppens, a Belgian driver, made great achievements after winning the 20 12 championship, defending the 20 13 Maserati Trofeo World Championship. From 20 13, 12, Maserati officially entered the first century since the brand was founded.
In order to welcome the first100th anniversary, Maserati will launch the centennial trademark in the global market and hold a series of celebrations. Maserati also launched an official centennial guide entitled "Maserati-Centennial Storm". The book includes three themes, namely, a century-old history, glorious cars and the soul of racing cars. Maserati will officially launch its centennial album in the exhibition hall of Maserati headquarters in Modena on February 6, 65438, and will officially release it in the first week of February 65438. "Maserati Centennial" is written by four writers who are highly regarded in Nedergard. Focusing on the three themes of company history, automobile series and motor racing, it records the glorious legend of Maserati for a century in the form of chronicle.
On the occasion of the centennial celebration, Maserati launched the brand-new Maserati Quattroporte President Car and Ghibli. At the Geneva Motor Show and Beijing Motor Show held on 20 14, Maserati released the latest Alfieri 2+2 concept sports car, and launched a global limited edition of 100 Dzheniya.
On September 201April 17, Maserati Centennial Celebration Parade kicked off in Bologna, officially opened on September 18, and finally ended in Turin on September 20. The three-day activities were splendid, including many exhibitions, cruises, track test drive experiences and regular events, visits to Maserati's old and new factories, and antique auto shows of the world's top collectors and classic models.
More than 200 classic Maserati antiques and contemporary models from different periods have become the most dazzling stars in the parade celebration, leaving an indelible impression on people. Maserati's iconic road models in history-A6GCS/53, 3500 GT, 5000 GT, Sebring, Mistral, Mexico, the first generation Ghibli car, the first generation Maserati Quattroporte car, Bora, Indy, Khamsin and even Boomerang concept car, together with Maserati's existing models, formed an amazing parade and headed for the streets of Italy.
The celebration brought together Maserati owners from all over the world, including Italy, the United States, China, South Korea, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Britain, France, Germany and Greece. It fully reflects the global fans' love for Maserati brand.
Among the motorcades participating in the Centennial Celebration Parade, the Italian Rally Team from China is particularly eye-catching. This motorcade started from Beijing in mid-August, and after a 35-day trek, it crossed Europe and Asia, passing through Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Minsk, Warsaw, Prague and Munich in Russia, and finally arrived in Milan, Italy on September 15, and then joined the celebration team of Modena. This unprecedented Sino-Italian rally is a special gift from Maserati China for the centenary of the brand and the 10th anniversary of its entry into China.