STAR CAR
I AM OFTEN asked what brand of car it is. Perhaps it’s the almost luminous solid Giallo Sprint paintwork that first draws curious eyes, but the word Maserati appears nowhere on the Quattroporte IV’s exterior. That’s appropriate on what is surely one of the most interesting yet overlooked luxury sports sedans of the 1990s (I have a Maserati-published history of the Quattroporte that dismisses the Q IV in a few sentences, as it were an embarrassing aberration).
Inside, you find ‘Maserati’ on the beige face of the trademark ovoid clock and the logo on the left-hand-side of the steering wheel.
As for ‘Quattroporte’, this is surely one of the silliest automotive names in history and self-explanatory when you give it a nanosecond’s thought.
My own eyes were
