Maserati Quattroporte biturbo and Maserati Quattroporte IV , Maserati Ghibli II



Now, the Maserati Quattroporte IV and the Maserati Ghibli II — well, those ain’t your run-of-the-mill beat-up cruisers. Truth be told, these rides are more like high-end luxury sports cars than any ol’ burnout-mobile. Honestly, they’d probably fit better in my street racing blog than in a blog about small-town redneck cruisin’.

But hey, Maseratis were actually some o’ the cheapest Italian sports cars you could get your hands on back in the day. Word is, even them fellas in the A and B gangs in Oslo used to roll around in ‘em like they owned the town.

Design-wise, they were pure 1980s — slick lines, sharp corners, the whole nine yards — and stayed that way right up till around the year 2000. You could compare ‘em straight up with the Lancia Delta Integrale, which I’ve already written about in another post.

These machines came with engines as small as 2.0 liters — not exactly muscle car size — but mostly ran with 2.8-liter V6s under the hood. Some had a V8, sure, but even that one only packed 3.2 liters. So yeah, they were more about style and finesse than raw brute force.

Still, with that ‘80s swagger and those turbocharged hearts, you could easily tear up the streets of Lillehammer, smoke the roads in Bø down in Telemark, or make a flashy scene cruisin’ through Tjøme or Hankø — where rumor has it these cars were kinda popular. Wouldn’t be surprised if folks started thinkin’ you were mafia. Whether that’s Norwegian mafia, Italian mafia, or just some wannabe international crime syndicate — well, who’s to say?







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