Italian brands like Maserati conjure up all sorts of rose-colored images and cliched phrases. It’s said cars from the boot-shaped country are more passionate and more emotional, and that fans will flock to them because of an unmatched pedigree that comes from a century of legendary racing engineering.
It's for all of those reasons that people buy Italian cars – they want a taste of that exotic lifestyle and the romance that comes from pretending to be Fangio blasting around Monza at the wheel of a Maserati. For these customers, practicality rarely drives their purchasing decision. And yet it's the chief (but not only) reason I'd have the new 2023 Maserati Grecale over a Porsche Macan, a Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class, or even my beloved Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
