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The production-spec Maserati Alfieri will premiere at next year’s Geneva Motor Show, the Italian company has confirmed. Maserati first unveiled the Alfieri as a concept back in 2014, but the production model has been delayed multiple times due to changes to FCA’s scheduling. This will finally change when the road-going Alfieri hits the market in 2021 or 2022, between 12 and 24 months after its unveiling. When the Alfieri was initially confirmed for production in May 2014, Maserati claimed that it would be offered with three V6 powertrains delivering between 404 hp and 513 hp. Well, these plans appear to have changed significantly. The dashing sports car will be built on an aluminum space frame and will be available as a mild hybrid, a plug-in hybrid as well as a an all-electric with three e-motors, four-wheel drive, torque vectoring, and 800V battery technology. The automaker boasts that it will be “the Maserati of EVs” and the “first luxury EV coupe”, offering a 0-100 km/h (0...

FCA is looking to put past disappointments behind them as far as its Maserati brand is concerned, focusing on a future where every new model will stay true to the brand’s exclusive image. The Italian automaker will also be ditching the GranTurismo nameplate in favor of the Alfieri, a two door luxury Coupe/Cabriolet boasting a plug-in hybrid powertrain with E-AWD. Simply told, the Alfieri will be the Maserati of EV Coupes. According to Maserati, the Alfieri will be capable of speeds north of 300 km/h (186 mph), and thanks to its active aerodynamics, torque vectoring and a three motor E-AWD system, it will accelerate from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in around 2 seconds flat. Other features include the state-of-the-art 800V battery, lightweight construction, limited space intrusion, quick charge times and a long range – something that will apply to all battery-electric Maserati models in the near future, such as an all-new Quattroporte and Levante. In total, there will be eight plu...

Maserati has  pushed back  the launch of the Alfieri sports car once again to early next decade in a shake up of the firm's future range. According to  Autocar , the next-generation  GranTurismo and GranCabrio  will now arrive 2018-2019 before the Alfieri in 2020-2021. This comes despite the fact that Maserati originally intended on launching the Alfieri in 2016. While speaking with the publication, general manager of Maserati Europe, Giulio Pastore confirmed the news, “The Granturismo and Grancabrio will not be dropped. We won’t forget that Maserati is very well known in its history for beautiful 2+2 GT cars and we will replace them, then the Alfieri.”  No explanation has been given for why Maserati will now launch new GranTurismo and GranCabrio models before the Alfieri's arrival but Pastore's comments suggest the marque is in no rush to launch a dedicated  two-door sports car , saying its final design may not be signed off until 2018. Despite the...

The  Maserati Alfieri  won't be the next vehicle from the Trident-badged brand to hit the market after the  Levante   crossover . Instead, replacements for the  GranTurismo  and  GranCabrio  will arrive first. For now,  Maserati  CEO Harald Wester won't even speculate about when the production Alfieri will debut. At the  Geneva Motor Show ,  Motoring  tried to pin Wester down about the Alfieri's future, but he wasn't in the mood to talk about the 2+2  sports car . The boss said he didn't know if the model was still on schedule and gave a terse "no comment" response about a possible launch next year. He did confirm Maserati's upcoming product slate, though. "The next one will be substitution of GranTursimo, GranCabrio by successors. We already had discussion about Alfieri and I don't want to go into details," Wester told  Motoring . A report late last year claimed  Maserati had delayed the Alfieri  du...