Maserati Merak

The Maserati Merak was an Italian sports car made in 1972, about a inferior adaptation of the Maserati Bora. It commissioned an all fresh Maserati advised quad-cam V-6 motor (also aggregate with the Citroen SM) for the Bora's beyond V-8, consistent not alone in a lower cost, but allowance for a baby backseat and more good administration due to lower weight and a more good front/rear weight distribution.

Aesthetically, the Merak differed from the contrarily actual agnate Bora mainly in antic accessible aerial buttresses instead of the Bora's absolutely glassed rear, and the use of the Citroen SM dashboard on models produced afore 1976.

The Merak went out of assembly in 1982.

Maserati Boomerang

The Maserati Boomerang was a sports car made by Giorgetto Giugiaro. It was shown first at the Turin Auto Show in 1971 as a non-functional model, but by the time the 1972 Geneva Auto Show came about the aggregation had formed it into a absolutely anatomic vehicle.

The architecture of the Boomerang would bell through Giugiaro's approaching designs for abounding years. Its aciculate angles and block appearance could be calmly apparent in the Maserati Merak, the Lotus Esprit, and the De Lorean DMC-12. Powered by a 310 bhp (230 kW) 4.7L V8 agent active the rear wheels, 5 acceleration chiral transmission, and accepting a absolutely decked out interior. With a different dashboard blueprint area the council caster and barometer array are allotment of a distinct animate that emerges from the dash, and the council caster rotates about the anchored gauges.

Maserati Khamsin

The Maserati Khamsin (named after the Khamsin, a hot, violent wind in the Egyptian desert) was a sports automobile introduced as a Bertone prototype in 1972 at the Turin Auto Show. In 1973 it was put on display at the Paris Motor Show, where it was badged as a Maserati. Production of the vehicle started in 1974. The automobile had a front mounted four.9 litre V-8 delivering 320 hp.The engine however was pushed back as far as feasible so it an fit a spare tire for more room in the trunk. The Khamsin now had housed in bodywork that resembled a lower, flatter Ghibli, designed by Bertone. Production of the Khamsin ended in 1982, with only 430 vehicles produced. 155 were brought to the United States.

Maserati Bora

The Maserati Bora is a Maserati two-seater sports car powered by a V8 agent army amidships. Produced from 1971 to 1978, it had a top acceleration of 174–177 afar per hour (280–285 km/h).

A accumulated animate monocoque anatomy and anatomy featured a tubular animate subframe at the aback for the agent and transmission. Abeyance was absolute all annular (a aboriginal for a Maserati alley car) with braid springs, scope shocks and anti-roll bars. The development ancestor and the broadly agnate appearance car aboriginal apparent at the 1971 Geneva Motor Appearance featured MacPherson Strut based advanced suspension, but this was alone for assembly because, installed in aggregate with actual advanced advanced tires and rack-and-pinion steering, the strut-based band-aid produced astringent kickback. For the assembly cars Maserati changed to a added bourgeois wishbone front-suspension arrangement.