Maserati Quattroporte Trofeo

DON’T BE EMBARRASSED IF YOU THOUGHT Maserati had quietly put the Quattroporte out to pasture while it focused on launching the Levante SUV, revealing a hybridisation strategy for the smaller Ghibli saloon and throwing its MC20-branded cap into the mid-engined hybrid supercar ring. I had too. Then a trio of new Trofeo models were announced earlier this year, amongst them a Quattroporte version.

In the nine years since this sixth-generation Quattroporte was launched, BMW and AMG have introduced two generations each of the M5 and E63 respectively, Audi has had two new RS6s and Jaguar has killed off the XJ. Yet still the