Recently tried a lot of very good new energy vehicles, I admit that the tram is brisk, smooth, quiet, and saves money, which is difficult to achieve with the same price of fuel vehicles. Suddenly, I feel that there is nothing worth nostalgic about fuel vehicles. But when I got this Maserati Ghibli 3.0T GranSport, the "high-displacement" V6 engine was ignited in the basement and the "high-displacement" V6 engine got up and scared out the anti-theft alarm of the green car next door, and at that moment I understood that this was the "nostalgic" oil car that people really longed for and nostalgic.
350 horsepower, 500 Nm of torque, 5.5 seconds to break the hundred, 35 meters brake stop, this is the Ghibli 3.0T GranSport has the strong performance, but more charming is its original Italian luxury C-Class has its unique charm, niche brand and increasingly rare V6 sound, are its 800,000 worth of the bottom of the bottom line.
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Driving experience
Now this year advocates zero emissions, the city double limit green card can be exempted, two or three hundred thousand cars began to use three-cylinder machines, so that 2.0L have become a large displacement. The Ghibli 3.0T has 6 cylinders, 3 liters of displacement, 2 turbos and 8 gears, and is also a rear-drive. Well... It doesn't look very eco-friendly, but it's really tempting.
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Accelerate testing
Acceleration test we in accordance with the usual use of ejection starting method to carry out, Ghibli in situ maximum speed can reach 3000 rpm, under the action of strong torque, at this time the rear wheel has begun to appear in situ scratching tires, quickly release the brake start, the drive wheel will continue to slide, this starting method is cool to open, but in fact, not only hurt the gearbox, slippage is too serious but lost a certain amount of time.
In fact, it is most efficient to release the brakes and start when the speed is held to 2500 rpm, when the engine torque is already at the peak platform, and it will not be excessive and lost from the skidding rear wheels. The feeling of pushing back during the entire acceleration process is very strong, and the suspension effectively inhibits the lifting of the front of the car.
From the test chart, you can see that the acceleration at the moment of starting is up to 0.8g, which is quite explosive. After two gear changes, when the speed reached 90km/h, there was still 0.4g, and the power reserve was sufficient. There will be a short power interruption when the 8AT gearbox is shifted, so the curvature of the entire acceleration curve produces a certain range of fluctuations, but the impact is not strong during the re-engagement process after the shift, and the subjective body feeling is still quite smooth.
Compared with other sport-oriented four-door luxury cars, the same 3.0T Ghibli is not particularly fast, but the gap is only about half a second, considering the difference in test conditions, its acceleration performance should be said to be comparable to the opponents. It is worth mentioning that the Mercedes-Benz CLS series is only up to 2.0T, and the highest power CLS 350 version has an output of 299 horses and 400 Nm, while the CLS 300 we tested before, although it only has 258 horsepower and 370 Nm, its zero hundred performance is not much worse than that of several others.
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Brake test
The braking system of the Ghibli 3.0T is provided by Brembo, with 4 pistons at the front and 6 rear and ventilated discs at the front and rear,
The hardware aspect is in place. In actual tests, it also made excellent results, with a braking distance of 35.02 meters per 100 kilometers per hour, which belongs to the front row level in the same price model. However, the new car we tested has only driven thousands of kilometers, and the brake system has already appeared with a very sharp and harsh noise, and the quality control level is very Italian.
From the test chart, it can be seen that during the entire braking process, its acceleration can be maintained at a level of -1.2g, which can be said to be quite powerful, but in the later section due to the intervention of ABS, the braking force has fluctuated to a certain extent.
Several other models at the same price point also have quite good braking performance, compared to the Audi A7 and Mercedes-Benz CLS, which are inferior, and the Ghibli's 35-meter performance is definitely excellent for this executive-class sedan that weighs more than 2 tons.
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Winding test
The piling project is a comprehensive test of vehicle handling, and during the 18-meter equidistant pile tube bypass, you can feel the characteristics of a car in terms of steering agility, power output invigorating, suspension inhibition of body roll, and tire grip.
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Noise test
For other large luxury cars at the same price, the noise value at idle speed is basically about 30 to 35 decibels, which is as quiet as the deep space of the universe. But this is not a place worth learning for a Maserati, people who choose this brand will not be noisy, on the contrary, the intimidating exhaust sound is the reason why they like this brand, the more moving the more excited they are.
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In the era of electrification, how to play Maserati's cards?
Although the Ghibli in front of you is not yet a pure sports car, the fuel vehicle with large displacement and high horsepower is still more interesting to drive than the Tesla Model S, an electric vehicle with anti-acceleration performance. However, the new energy trend is surging forward, and European countries have issued a timetable for the ban on the sale of fuel vehicles, and the electrification of car companies is imperative. The stage of large-displacement fuel vehicles is getting smaller and smaller, and in the era of electrification, how to play Maserati's cards?
The mainstream luxury brand BBA has gradually drifted away on this road, the coverage rate of its new energy vehicles is getting higher and higher, and Ferrari, Bentley, Porsche, Jaguar, etc. have also had or will soon be listed electrified models.
At a deeper level, the electrification of luxury sports brands is not easy, and it is difficult enough to pursue endurance and charging efficiency, but it is only a pass to do these. How to pass on the ultimate driving control experience accumulated over the past century from traditional fuel vehicles to electric vehicles under the premise of completely different power forms and body structures is the biggest problem faced by many sports car brands.
Porsche, the world's most profitable sports car company, earned fame with the 911 and insisted on the original fun of rear-drive making it unique. And dare to think and dare to do Porsche as early as ten years ago to take out the 918 Spyder such a shocking hybrid supercar, in 2019 and took out the Taycan, this Porsche electric car is not just for the delivery of work, it is called the Porsche brand new energy technology results summary, but also inherits the brand's precious driving control essence, three chamber air suspension, 48V anti-roll bar and other technologies are the embodiment of its pursuit of the ultimate driving control.
Even Mazda, who stubbornly adheres to the fuel belief, "copes" to write his crappy answer MX-30 on the exam paper, but the 200km endurance is obviously a failure. But Mazda's bolder idea was to develop a plug-in hybrid system using a rotor engine as a range extender, holding fast to the last dignity of the internal combustion engine.
In fact, Maserati has been fully electrified since a few years ago, and the network rumors will launch a president plug-in hybrid version and a new electric sports car in 2021. It's just that now 2022, Maserati only has 2.0T+48V, a very rudimentary hybrid system on sale, used in Ghibli and Levante, even the newly launched MC20 is still a pure fuel sports car. The Grecale, a new mid-size SUV to be officially released in March this year, is also 2.0T+48V. In the process of new energy, Maserati is obviously seriously behind.
According to the new Gran Turismo real car spy photos and new car plans officially exposed by Maserati, Maserati's first pure electric vehicle may be the next generation of Gran Turismo, and it seems to be wrapped up in the trend of the times. Hopefully, it'll play something new, rather than a silly sports car that's electrified for the sake of electrification.
Even if the pace of electrification is slow, Maserati will eventually be fully electrified, and the next generation of Ghibli may be a quiet and comfortable luxury car, and it is really nostalgic to recall this V6 gasoline car that roared when it went down the accelerator.