HE ORIGINAL MASERATI QUATTROPORTE of 1963 was a Frua-styled, V8-powered saloon accurately summed up by the words in an Italian-market ad that said it was ‘fast, elegant, comfortable, sober’. In 1968 Citroën took control of Maserati and the following year the Quattroporte was retired without replacement. But the French company had big plans for its new acquisition and they included an all-new four-door, the genes of which
