The 2023 Maserati Ghibli has seen a significant price increase

The Ghibli is a product with a not particularly long history in Maserati's product matrix. The car was launched in 2013 and won a lot of consumers' admiration once it was launched, thanks to Maserati's super first-tier luxury brand aura, its face value, strong performance, and mellow sound. However, it didn't last long, and after a few years of glory, the car's sales declined significantly and are now rarely mentioned.

Recently, the 2023 Maserati Ghibli was officially launched, with two configurations and a price range of 85.28 to 929,800 yuan. As an annual facelift, the new car focuses on configuration adjustments, while the price has also been adjusted upwards, so let's find out exactly how it performs.

Exterior design

The 2023 Maserati Ghibli has not undergone any changes in terms of appearance. The car's front grille is still the iconic straight waterfall design, with internal spokes in the style of a double upper and lower single, the reason for not using the full double-spoke design is to avoid clashing with the Trofeo. The left and right sides of the headlight cluster shape are still angular, and the narrow gaze is very sharp, but the lower version of the model only uses xenon headlights, although the night lighting when the penetration is stronger, the visual effect is general, applied to such a million-dollar car, it is really difficult to understand.

The car's dimensions are 4971×1945×1461 mm, with a wheelbase of 2998 mm. the side design of the car is relatively simple, with brake calipers and shark gills, and other iconic design elements. At the same time, the car offers a total of 10 styles of rims in 4 sizes to choose from.

The rear of the 2023 Maserati Ghibli is slightly bland, with separate taillight clusters on both sides with downward curving curved light strips, similar in design to a boomerang. The flattened rear surround is also equipped with a bilateral four-exit round-hole exhaust with built-in valves, and after careful tuning of the exhaust system by the engineers, the charming sound remains.

Interior Design

The interior of the 2023 Maserati Ghibli still maintains the Maserati family design. Compared to German luxury brands, the creation of a sense of luxury and technology is lacking, and the overall shape is more retro and lacks a sense of freshness. The model is equipped with 7-inch LCD instruments with a simple and refreshing interface design, and basic driving information is displayed, making it more intuitive to read. The center display screen is only 10.1 inches, with a significant screen-to-body ratio, but the screen size is still small compared to today's mainstream products. The built-in infotainment system developed by Maserati in cooperation with Tencent provides cell phone connectivity mapping, voice recognition control, Telematics, 4G network, and OTA upgrades, so it is not a problem to meet daily driving needs, but the internal UI design of the screen is not beautiful, and there is a slight lag in operation.

The new car seats are uniformly wrapped in leather fabric, with features such as electric adjustment of the main and passenger seats, and electric seat memory for the driver's seat. The front seats are still the same, and the internal padding is hard, with good wrapping, but the comfort is not strong, while the cushion length is average, the support for the legs is relatively limited.

The rear space of the 2023 Maserati Ghibli is a little bit limited. When the 1.8-meter-tall person came to the rear, he had about three fingers of head and leg space, which is a little bit unreasonable for this class of the car. At the same time, the center of the floor has a significant bulge and the middle cushion is short, which is not suitable for passengers to ride for a long time.

Powertrain

The 2023 Maserati Ghibli is powered by a 2.0T+48V light hybrid system and a 3.0T V6 engine, of which the 2.0T engine has a maximum output of 330 hp and a peak torque of 450 NM. the 3.0T V6 engine has a maximum output of 350 hp and a peak torque of 500 NM. The transmission system is equipped with an 8-speed manual transmission as standard. The 2.0T model is not much less powerful than the 3.0T version with the help of the electric motor.

Model configuration and buying advice

The 2023 Maserati Ghibli focuses on configuration upgrades, including an electric trunk, induction trunk, electric four-way steering wheel adjustment, steering wheel shift/memory, wireless cell phone charging, cell phone APP remote control, and other features that have become standard across the system. But the new car also has a significant increase in price, including the new 2.0T GT and 3.0T Modena in price compared to the 2022 model rose 5.78 yuan and 40,000 yuan respectively. The following car uncle will be for the new model of the two configurations for a detailed analysis, to see which configuration is more cost-effective some.