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Maserati Australia and New Zealand has announced Grant Barling will lead the company s local operations as
General Manager.
Barling was previously National Sales Manager for Maserati, but moves into the newly-created position as outgoing Chief Operations Officer Glen Sealey changes to another role within the Ateco organisation – the importer of Maserati vehicles locally. I’m delighted to accept this new role and lead Maserati as it embarks on a new era, Mr Barling said at the announcement.
Starting his career with Toyota around three decades ago, Barling has worked in senior roles at Lexus and Audi, before moving to the luxury Italian brand.
An electrifying performance from Maserati
Finding the correct balance of form and function has always been the guiding principle of Maserati design. Giovanni Ribotta, Maserati’s Exterior Chief Designer, likes to say that any new car to emerge from the superior lineage of vehicles that includes the 5000GT, Khamsin, Berlinetta Zagato and Quattroporte is ‘always related to engineering.rather than a decorative approach’. Compromising performance has never been an option at Maserati, and the Ghibli Hybrid, Maserati s first mild hybrid electric vehicle, is no different. With hybrid technology magnifying the Ghibli’s intense power while cleverly reducing fuel consumption and emissions, the exhilaration of driving a Maserati, says Giovanni Ribotta, has never been so efficiently and handsomely delivered.
DRIVEN: 2021 Ghibli Hybrid introduces us to the Maseratis weâll be driving in future
By Pritesh Ruthun
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JOHANNESBURG - Screaming V8 Maseratis will be no more. To prepare us for this future of electric motors and silence, the company has started to shift its local model line-up in a new direction, with the introduction of its first-ever hybridised vehicle; the Maserati Ghibli Hybrid.
WHAT IS A MASERATI GHIBLI HYBRID?
Based on the Ghibli that was launched in South Africa in 2015, albeit facelifted for 2021, the new Ghibli Hybrid is a four-door, four-seater sedan that is powered by a 2.0-litre turbopetrol four-cylinder engine thatâs mated to an e-booster (electric supercharger) and a belt-driven starter generator (BSG). Thanks to a 48-volt electrical architecture, these systems are able to work seamlessly together to provide up to 243kW of power and 450Nm of torque.
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Maserati’s successful Ghibli has already won several prizes and awards, and it has received a very special one as it won the ‘Upper Middle Class – Import’ category at Best Cars 2021. Initiator of this readers choice is the leading German car magazine Auto Motor Und Sport. More than 100,000 readers had followed the call and picked their favourites from 378 vehicles in eleven categories. This is the 45th time that these prestigious awards have been held.
Davide Grasso, CEO Maserati, said: “Ghibli is an iconic Maserati model. With over 100,000 units produced since its launch in 2013, this model perfectly embodies our DNA and the brand’s values. For this reason we have chosen Ghibli to ignite the spark of electrification which projects the brand into the future: last year we revealed the new Ghibli Hybrid, the first hybrid vehicle in Maserati’s history.”