The leading Maserati and Alfa Romeo drivers decided not to compete but Bugatti was well represented.

Brabham briefly and unsuccessfully campaigned his own second hand Formula One Maserati 250F during 1956, but his season was saved by drives for Cooper in sports cars and Formula Two, the junior category to Formula One.

By the time of the Penya Rhin Grand Prix in late June, Nuvolari's leg was finally out of plaster, but was still causing him troubles as he battled pain until he retired his Maserati with technical problems.

In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar and Aston Martin investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers ; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas.

The engine was also used in the Maserati Merak from 1973 to 1982 ( later versions for the Merak SS had much larger valves and a reputed 220BHP ) and the Ligier JS2 sports car.

The Maserati Quattroporte II was a Maserati-badged, 4-door variant of the SM, with an angular body and lengthened floorpan.

The dramatic dashboard was shared with the Maserati Merak

Among the cars O ' Connor owned were a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow sold to him by William Harrah, a Maserati 3500 GT, and a Dodge Challenger equipped with the 440-cubic inch V-8 that was the car he drove during production of All In The Family.

In the first incident he was indicted by a grand jury for an alleged theft of a Maserati, but prosecutors dropped the charge shortly thereafter.

The J2X was not as successful in international racing as the J2, as it became less competitive against more advanced Jaguar C and D types, Ferraris, and Maserati works cars it headlined less often in major international races.

Finished Symphony was used when Jeremy Clarkson, in a Bugatti Veyron, raced James May and Richard Hammond, in a light aircraft, across Europe ( Series 7, Episode 5 ), whilst " Formula Of Fear " was featured in Series 14, in the Maserati / Porsche / Aston Martin segment.

Maserati was one of the first clients who contracted Frua for the styling of their new 2-litre, 6-cylinder sports car, the A6G.

With these cars Maserati was positioned into a new market of luxury and powerful, understated cars.

One of his last designs to enter series production was the two-door GT Maserati Kyalami first shown at the 1976 Geneva Motor Show.

Chris also loved expensive cars, having owned a Lexus LS400, Mercedes CLK 430, Land Rover Range Rover, Hummer H2, John Sacrimoni's Maserati Coupé ( which " Sack " sold after he was arrested ), and the 2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT, which he purchased after the Maserati was seized by the government and which he fatally crashed.

It was powered by a 4. 2-litre reworked Maserati engine with Ferrari running gear, and a Sports Car Engineering Mistral body.

The car was released in mid-2006, " in response to the customer demand to own the MC12 racing car and fueled by the growth in track days, where owners can drive their cars at high speeds in the safety of a race track ", as stated by Edward Butler, General Manager for Maserati in Australia and New Zealand.

In similar fashion to the Ferrari FXX, although the owners are private individuals, Maserati is responsible for the storage, upkeep, and maintenance of the cars, and they are only driven on specially organized track days.

Chrysler's TC by Maserati was a " Q " body based on a modified second generation Chrysler K platform jointly developed by Chrysler and Maserati as a grand tourer and introduced at the 1986 Los Angeles Auto Show.

Juan Manuel Fangio had left Ferrari for Maserati to attempt to win a fifth world championship with the help of their much modified 250Fs.

2006 GranSport SpyderThe Maserati GranSport is a modified version of the Coupé and Spyder that was first unveiled at the 2004 Geneva Motor Show.

Sometimes, even when the prosaic meaning is more obvious, the risque one is thought of as the factual one ; In the Ted Nugent song Wango Tango he talks about his Maserati and he is looking for a garage so he can " put his Maserati away " The Maserati is referring to his member and he finds a garage " You think you see a garage up ahead and the dam thing is open-get it on ".

It used a very oversquare ( 4. 05 x 2. 95 in, 102. 87 x 74. 93 mm ) 2. 5 L atmospheric four-cylinder engine designed by Stuart Tresilian and ( as became a typical theme with BRM ) it arrived late and took a lot of development ; it was in fact so late that the Owen Organisation started the 2. 5 L formula with a Maserati 250F.

Thereafter, Enzo Ferrari would no longer sell his cars to Serenissima, so the company turned to De Tomaso, ATS, and Maserati. Volpi, and thus Serenissima, halted automobile operations in 1970.

The 1954 Formula One season brought new rules for 2. 5 L engines ; Ferrari's new car, designated the Ferrari Tipo 625, could barely compete against Fangio with the Maserati and then the Mercedes-Benz W196 which appeared in July.

With his victory at this race, Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari won his second Driver's championship in a row ; as teammates Nino Farina and Mike Hawthorn, and Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio ( who failed to score ) now could not beat Ascari's total points score.

Purchasers could even order custom Maserati luggage, made to match their car's interiors.

Even by the standards of its time and class, the car consumed copious volumes of fuel, but Maserati fitted the car with two fuel tanks, which could be filled via flaps on either side of the roof pillars.

Nuccio Bertone came up with five variations on the theme which would always be dear to his heart, in the shape of five extremely racy GT models: the Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint, in coupé and cabriolet versions, two Ferrari 250 GTs, one named ' Wax ' after the commissioning client, and the other for the his personal use, the Aston Martin DB4 GT ' Jet ' and the Maserati 5000 GT.

In addition to building their own cars, De Tomaso also had Innocenti use their factory capacity in producing bodywork for and providing final assembly of the Maserati Biturbo, Quattroporte, and the Chrysler TC by Maserati.

A later model, the Lago Sport ( 1954 – 1957 ), would use a Maserati engine.

The 1981 Maserati Biturbo ( with AM452 18-valve 2-liter V6 engine ) was the first production car to use a multi-valve turbocharged engine.

A Trofeo Light ( or simply the Maserati Light ) was also developed for use in various national and international racing series, including the Italian GT Championship, Rolex Sports Car Series, and FIA GT3 European Championship.

An ancient town, it is the seat of an archbishop, but is now best known as " the capital of engines ", since the factories of the famous Italian sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani and Maserati are, or were, located here and all, except Lamborghini, have headquarters in the city or nearby.

Some of the largest Opels, such as the Opel Diplomat " B " of 1969, all Aston Martins from 1967 to 1989, Ferrari 375 and 250TR, Maserati Quattroporte, Bugatti 251, Mercedes-Benz W125 and W154 as well as Auto Union Type D also used this suspension.

The 1954 event was won by one of the most iconic Formula One cars of all time, a Maserati 250F, driven by Luigi Musso.

He started 7 of those races, all for Maserati.

In 1955, in addition to driving a Maserati 250F in the 1955 Italian Grand Prix, Fitch raced for the Mercedes-Benz sports car team along with Juan Manuel Fangio, Karl Kling, and Stirling Moss, arguably the most formidable racing team ever, dominating all levels of competition from Formula One to diesel-engined production cars.

For three consecutive years ( 1958 – 1960 ) he won the gruelling race at Germany's Nürburgring, the first two years in an Aston Martin ( where he won almost single-handedly ) and the third in the memorable Tipo 61 " birdcage " Maserati, co-driving with young American prospect Dan Gurney.

Maserati wheeled out three factory cars for Felice Bonetto, Froilán González and Franco Rol and there were three semi-factory entries from Escuderia Bandierantes as well.

There were only three makes contesting this round – Maserati, Ferrari and Gordini.

In contrast, Maserati had nine cars, whilst Ferrari had three for the experienced trio of Hawthorn, Gonzalez and Trintignant.

It was future world champion Rindt's first podium finish and the first for the new Cooper-Maserati combination as the works Cooper Car Company team looked to the three litre Maserati V12 sports car engine for the new regulations.

In 1985 Maserati made an experimental 2. 0-liter turbo V6 engine with six valves per cylinder ( three intakes, three exhaust ).

He debuted in Formula One at the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix on 24 October 1954 in a Maserati 250F, but was not successful in the three World Championship Grands Prix he entered, and only finished the 15 laps behind the winner.