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On December 14, 1914 a new company was born in Bologna, Societ Anonima Officine Alfieri Maserati. The Maserati brothers: Carlo (1881), Bindo (1883), Alfieri (1887), Mario (1890), Ettore (1894) and Ernesto (1898) with exception of Mario, who turned his creative vocation towards painting, they all became involved in engineering.

In 1959 they build a car for the Shah of Persia, that was the 5000 GT Touring version. This car was followed by several other models, as the Sebring ( 63-72 ), Quatroporte and Mistral ( 63-70 ), the Mexico ( 66-72 ), Ghibli ( 66-70 ) and the Indy ( 69-76 ).

The Orsi family sold Maserati to Citro n in 1968. They were primarily interested in acquiring its engine know how For their SM coup . In this period the Bora ( 71-79 ), Merak ( 72-83 ) and the Quatroporte II were born. There were only five Quatroportes II build.

At the moment the factory is busy testing the new Spyder! This post of the category should be longer, may be I’ll post a complete history of Maserati later.