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Blending supercar pace with luxury saloon opulence, the gorgeous Ghiblis are finally getting the recognition they deserve
The dream of owning a Maserati Ghibli is one of those recurring exotic-car fantasies that I used to think might actually one day come true.
They were, after all, cheap for decades, moving from being a must-have fashion trinket of the playboy classes to irrelevant GT dinosaur in one easy move.
They are not even all that rare in exotica terms: 1295 cars in six years makes a Ghibli positively common compared to any Iso or Monteverdi you care to name.
In fact, the Ghibli was the most successful of the classic V8 Maseratis, and a curious case of a firm’s most expensive car also being its biggest seller.
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And yet, even at its lowest financial ebb, the fast, beautiful and relatively abundant Maserati Ghibli was still somehow always priced just beyond the grasp of the likes of me.
I can’t moan, really, because I had my chance: the failure to capture a tired but otherwise respectable example 15 years ago (for £12k) certainly feels like one of my poorer fiscal decisions when you consider the £218,500 this beautiful SS coupé made at auction in September.