Italian car manufacturers seem to enjoy making up their own special occasions. Alfa Romeo has decreed that, henceforth, 3 March will be ‘33 Stradale Day’, and now, according to Maserati, 15 April is ‘Folgore Day’.
This one, though, doesn’t seem like it’ll be a recurring thing – more a one-off opportunity for Maserati to show off its range of Folgore EVs (‘folgore’, if you needed reminding, is Italian for ‘lightning’), as well as debut a new one: the GranCabrio Folgore.
Its reveal doesn’t come as a huge surprise. We first saw the new GranCabrio in V6 form a few weeks ago. It’s the convertible version of the new GranTurismo, and given that the Folgore variant of that car is already on sale, this one felt pretty inevitable.
Maserati GranCabrio Folgore and Tridente boat
As with the GranTurismo Folgore, it gets a triple-motor arrangement – two driving the rear axle, and one for the front – making 751bhp and 996lb ft. Performance or efficiency figures haven’t been released, but expect them to take a tiny hit from the GranTurismo’s 2.7-second 0-62mph dash, 202mph top speed and quoted 280 mile range, owing to the GranCabrio’s extra weight. Still won’t be slow, though.
Aside from the powertrain, it’s as you were with the petrol-powered GranCab – that is, it’s bloomin’ gorgeous and should provide a decent amount of space for four to waft about in silent elegance. Well, waft until the driver decides to flex their right foot, anyway.
Pricing is yet to be announced, but it’ll inevitably be more than the GranTurismo Folgore’s already punchy £180,000 entry point.
Maserati Tridente
The GranCabrio Folgore wasn’t the only new product Maserati unveiled at Folgore Day. There’s also the Tridente, which is… a boat. Because every high-end car company worth its salt needs to make one of those now. Specifically, it’s an eight-person, 40-knot all-electric dayboat, which will almost certainly become a fixture of all those big villas on the shores of Lake Como. You’re a lot less likely to see one on Windermere, though.