2015 Maserati Quattroporte GTS

If you are minded to tell us that there’s a better example of a Maserati Quattroporte GTS out there, we’ll assume you’re talking about a car that went straight from the factory to a hermetically-sealed display case in a museum.

Otherwise, we’re putting our money on this one – which is by some margin the best we’ve ever seen.

And we’ve seen a few.

This was bought new by the vendor in September 2015. 

In the near decade that’s elapsed since then, the car has averaged a little more than 900 miles per year. 

Quite a few of those miles will have been expended on visits to and from Meridien Modena, the Maserati main dealer to whom all servicing, maintenance and repair work has been entrusted since the car’s first service, which came courtesy of Ridgeway Maserati.

Full disclosure – the vendor is well-known to us here at our Oxfordshire HQ.

We’re sure he won’t mind if we tell you that he is a man who does things properly.

He doesn’t cut corners, entertain compromises or otherwise deviate from the right course of action, regardless of any cost implications.

He is as fastidious, exacting and timely in his upkeep and curation of his cars as he is with his collection of classic boats.

And he is only saying goodbye to this Quattroporte so that he can hello to a brand-new GranCabrio. 

That will no doubt look very fine next to his Maserati Karif, which he also bought brand-new some 35 years ago.

As you may have gathered by now, the vendor likes a Maserati.

The car is in quite superb cosmetic, mechanical and dynamic condition. 

It drives exactly as you would hope and expect of a car whose Ferrari-derived engine generates 530 PS, up to 710 N⋅m and, at the time of its launch, made the Maserati Quattroporte GTS the fastest four-door production car in the world with a top speed just shy of 200mph.

There’s a golden thread of elegant, understated style that links the subtle design cues of this Quattroporte GTS to its achingly classy forbears from various Italian marques in the La Dolce Vita days of the 1960s.

This car shuns ostentation, abhors vulgarity and is as effortlessly stylish as Marcello Mastroianni in a silk shirt and a crisply cut suit.

We bet they don’t sell many of these in Dubai.

The car’s balanced and perfectly proportioned lines (designed to belie its considerable length) are untroubled by any dinks, dents, ripples, bruises or other aberrations that we can see.

The car’s shut-lines and panel gaps are as tight and consistent as the day Luigi and Guiseppe proudly waved it goodbye from the end of the production line at the Agnelli plant near Turin. 

The ‘Champagne’ paintwork (no, DVLA, it’s not ‘yellow’) has held up very well and the subtlety of the tone adds yet another layer of class to a car so refined and well-bred it makes George Clooney look like Danny Dyer.

Even entirely standard stone chips and light scratches are far more noticeable for their absence than their presence, and aside from one or two tiny paint chips in the usual places - the front valance and around the ‘nose’ of the car – we’ve not spotted anything remotely worth moaning about. 

The 19” multi-spoke forged alloy wheels seem to be blissfully unfamiliar with kerbs or other roadside obstacles and look to be in very good condition.

The matching Pirelli P-Zero tyres have plenty of tread left on them and the rears were replaced in September 2021, or 4,000-miles ago.

The car’s lights, lenses, badging, trim and various other external fixtures and fittings are all resolutely beyond reproach.

To all intents and purposes, this car is in squeaky-clean, minty-fresh, virtually as-good-as-new condition.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the good news extends to the car’s interior, which is clearly a product of the same refined, restrained, tasteful design ethos as its exterior counterpart. 

Maserati has long had the knack of doing classy things with wood and leather, and the marque has perhaps only been rivalled in that department by Jaguar over the years.

Well, this interior is up there with the best of them – both in terms of ambience and condition. 

Everything in the interior has been done in the best possible taste and the craftsmanship and quality of materials is evident wherever you look or touch.

Needless to say of a car with just 10,500 miles under its various belts, the cream leather upholstery, complete with trident-embossed headrests, has yet to earn much more than a light crease or two, let alone any ingrained patina or meaningful signs of wear.

The front seats have nothing to show for their dutiful service but the merest suggestion of a crease on the outer bolsters. 

The rear seats, as is so often the case, don’t look as if they’ve been asked to carry the weight of anything much more substantial than a Panama hat or a slim volume of poetry.

Front and back, the seats are comfortable, supportive and fully functional.

It’s important to note that this car is genuinely built to accommodate at least four people in comfort. 

You won’t find yourself with your knees around your ears while seated in the rear, and that’s something that very usefully sets this car apart from some other 4-door GT cars we could mention. 

The door cards are in exemplary condition, as are the headlining, carpets and mats.

The coffee-coloured hide on the door cappings and dashboard top contrasts very satisfyingly with the cream upholstery and trim. Naturally, it’s all in exemplary order.

The various wood veneer inserts on the dashboard, centre console and elsewhere are rich, glossy and have stoically resisted all and any temptations to crack, fade or lose their lacquer.

The car’s rear privacy screens/sun shades deploy and function as intended.

The controls, instruments and dials all seem to be in very good order and, as far as we are aware, everything does what it’s supposed to do without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Knowing the vendor as we do, we’d have been extremely surprised to find anything that didn’t work.

The boot, which is commendably large, is in similarly excellent condition.

The beating heart of the Quattroporte GTS is a 3.8-litre 90° twin-turbocharged V8, generating a maximum power output of 530 PS. The engine is a variant of the Ferrari F154 engine platform shared with the Ferrari 488, the Portofino and other prancing horse models. 

The V8 engine in the GTS parts company with other members of the Ferrari F154 engine group in having a cross-plane crankshaft, wet sump lubrication, and turbine housings, and exhaust manifolds incorporated into a single piece. 

Another very useful difference is an over-boost function which raises the maximum torque from 650 N⋅m between 2,000 and 4,000 rpm to 710 N⋅m between 2,250 and 3,500 rpm.

Everything in the very full engine bay is clean, dry, orderly and beyond criticism.

The car’s undersides are largely hidden from view behind various protective cowls and trays. These seem to have been doing a very job, and we’ve seen nothing whatsoever to make us tut, frown or otherwise doubt the integrity of what we can see.

The car has a comprehensive, timely, high-quality service history – all of it with main dealers.

• 10.10.17 – 1st service: 2,948 miles - Ridgeway Maserati Oxford
• 09.09.19 – 2nd service: 5,001 miles - Meridien Modena
• 08.09.21 – 3rd service: 6,335 miles - Meridien Modena
• 13.09.23 – 4th service: 8,759 miles - Meridien Modena
• 16.09.25 – 5th service 10,291 miles - Meridien Modena

There are bills, invoices and receipts covering this and other work carried out by Meridien Modena over the course of the car’s cossetted and carefully curated life.

Rest assured that all replacement intervals for belts and plugs have been promptly and assiduously observed. 

The car comes with full sets of keys, its original pack of guides and manuals, an HPI report, and an MoT certificate that’s valid until 22nd September 2026.

A quick glance at the car’s online MoT history trail reveals that it has never had so much as a single advisory note recorded against it.

That should tell you just about everything you need to know about its condition.

We like these cars.

On one level they are practical and sensible – you can comfortably accommodate all sorts of people and luggage, and it’s perfectly capable of hauling stuff home from a garden centre or builders’ merchant.

On another level, it’s basically a tarmac-shredding, supercar-humiliating beast of a thing that sets off like a jilted warthog and builds momentum like the Flying Scotsman.

But whether you’re driving it in Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde mode, the unique essence of the car is that it never looks like it’s trying too hard. 

It’s not shouty, loud or brash.

It doesn’t scream “LOOK AT ME!!!” in Trumpian capital letters.

It’s way too classy for anything quite so vulgar.

This particular example is, without doubt, the best we’ve yet hosted at our Oxfordshire HQ.

• Ultra-low mileage? Tick.
• One fastidious owner from new? Tick.
• Full main dealer service history? Tick.
• Premium Bowers & Wilkins surround-sound system? Tick.
• Virtually as-good-as-new condition, inside, outside and underneath? Tick.

Seriously, if you’re holding out in the hope of a better one coming along any time soon, prepare yourself for a very long wait indeed.

We are happy to offer this car for auction with an estimate in the range of £30,000 - £35,000.

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