The image you see above, published in the Automotive News Europe Pocket Guide to the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show appears to show the Maserati SUV that will be unveiled next week. While we do, of course, remain somewhat skeptical about this being the genuine article, all of the other images we can verify in the Pocket Guide are official and accurate. It seems unlikely, too, that the straight-laced folks at ANE would go with a rendering.
As we reported in May, we expect the Maserati SUV to arrive in 2014. It will be based on the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s platform, and probably will be built in Michigan. We are hopeful that even using Jeep underpinnings, the Maserati will be sufficiently Latinized, and that it will make use of one of the company’s fine V-8 engines. (That’s not a shot at the wonderful Hemi, of course, it just seems a bit too American for what’s ostensibly a piece of Italian machinery.)
A Chrysler-group-based Maserati? Bring on the Maserati TC by Chrysler, jokes. But hey, at least this time the Maser will be based on something at the front of the class—not a K-car.
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