The Masereti Levente rocks the luxury SUV club.
If you haven’t yet, you will start seeing a new Italian SUV on the road, parked prominently by valets at fancy restaurants, and vying for attention at ritzy country clubs. But Maserati is determined for its new Levante not just to get noticed. It also seeks to challenge the luxury sport-utility leaders with its performance and polish. In profile it might borrow the styling palette of others (say, Infiniti’s trend-setting FX). But that large grille with its telltale trident and the Saetta logo on its C-pillars are cues to a storied history few others can claim. Criticize if you must—it has some easily corrected missteps—but the 2017 Maserati Levante is a serious entry into the segment and will take attention and sales from current luxury sport-utility dahlings.
Out with a Kubang
Maserati was going to base the Levante (neé Kubang) on FCA’s WK2 Grand Cherokee. It was expected to be built in Michigan and rumored to be fitted with the Ferrari-Maserati F136 V-8 or a V-12. At some point, Maserati shifted the production Levante to the Ghibli/Quattroporte sedan platform and moved assembly to its plant near Turin, Italy. Its power comes via Maserati’s 3.0-liter twin-turbo V-6 with two initial states of tune.
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