VIDEO: Watch Maserati Push The New Levante SUV To The Limit Proving It Has The Right Stuff

With Maserati's head of product development behind the wheel, the Levante SUV showcased both off-road capability as well as high-speed performance at the Balocco Proving Ground in Piedmont.

Before he sets off in the Levante, Roberto Corradi touches on the fact that with this car, the Italian automaker's goal was to build something that was 100% Maserati but also 100% SUV, which means offering the best of two worlds that had never intersected before while wearing a trident badge.

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momentofsurrender - 7/13/2016 3:06:42 PM

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That seemed awfully close to rolling over!

MDarringer - 7/13/2016 3:57:33 PM

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The guy was sawing the wheel like mad which means the chassis was doing some dancing around. The on-two-wheels-near-rollover moment I'd have not shown because it really looked unstable. All in all it went pretty fast for a vehicle with a lot of the bones of the Chrysler 300 in it and boy was that Pentastar engine sounding like a blender on liquify or what.

iamdabest1 - 7/14/2016 12:12:12 AM

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exhaust note is awesome just like the ghibli sq4, if this thing will lease like a ghibli 7-900 range, you will be seeing tons on the road.
i got out of my maserati after 10 months because theyre priced well, but people leasing $800 per month cars can NOT afford brakes and rotors for $4,000 at 15k miles and $500 oil changes !! maintenance charges are out of control.
ill wait for the alfieri to go back to maserati, hopefully by then theyll realize if they want to compete with bmw and benz, they need to have similar maintenance charges- not ferrari levels.

MDarringer - 7/14/2016 8:37:39 AM

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Your Maserati dealer was really fleecing you if they wanted $500 for an oil change. You should have just gone to a Chrysler dealer because the Pentastar engine could be given an oil change using a filter for a Chrysler 300 for well less than $100.

$4K for brakes is similarly ridiculous because the actual parts used on the Ghibli are of incredibly pedestrian heritage.

Do you drive so aggressively that the rotors would be shot at 15K miles? Because if you do, it's your own fault, but if you drive normally, the rotors should not need replacing at 15K and you may have had defective rotors that could easily have been covered under warranty.

On that issue...

The local Maserati dealer is in the mode of pacifying customers because sales are dire, so they do a lot of free things like oil changes and picking up cars from customers then delivering them back when finished and are covering "everything" under the warranty to keep customers happy and FCA is paying the bill.

You may have had the unfortunate bad luck to do business with a really crappy dealer.

iamdabest1 - 7/17/2016 2:08:16 PM

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go on ghibliforum.com im not the only one that was getting 15k out of brakes and rotors. maserati of manhattan/ ferrari maserati long island is one dealership and these are their standard rates.