--- title: Maserati · HICONIUM description: Modena’s Trident — racing blue blood with a coachbuilt grand-touring soul. canonical_url: https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/maserati image: https://hiconium.com/og/marque/maserati.png --- > HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.com/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > Path: [Home](https://hiconium.com/) › [Manufacturers](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) › Maserati > On this page: [The essential Maseratis](#the-essential-maseratis) · [Every Maserati on file](#every-maserati-on-file) · [Vintage Gran Turismo & Racing](#vintage-gran-turismo--racing) · [Mid-Engined Classics](#mid-engined-classics) · [Modern Halo · MC12 & MC20](#modern-halo--mc12--mc20) · [The racing cars established the method; the grand tourers established the market.](#the-racing-cars-established-the-method-the-grand-tourers-established-the-market) · [Who drew and built the Maserati files](#who-drew-and-built-the-maserati-files) · [A trident from the town square.](#a-trident-from-the-town-square) ![Maserati — manufacturer stage](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/stage/maserati.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) [Manufacturers  /  Maserati](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers) # Maserati Modena, Italy · est. 1914 The racing cars established the method; the grand tourers established the market. Maserati's collectible core runs from the A6 families to its grand tourers. Period competition history and original coachwork separate the strongest cars from the standard market. Models 13 Top value €5M Period 1914– [Explore models](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/maserati#essential) [Manufacturer profile](https://hiconium.com/manufacturers/maserati#house-profile) ![Maserati — manufacturer stage](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/stage/maserati.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) Curated entry points ## The essential Maseratis Three cars that explain the manufacturer: its origins, its engineering peak and the shape of its modern ambition. [1953–1955 ### A6GCS/53 The works sports racer; the Pinin Farina berlinetta is a blue-chip jewel. Collectibility 96 / 100 Indicative value €5M](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/a6gcs-53) [1957–1964 ### 3500 GT The first series-built road Maserati — a Touring grand tourer. Collectibility 82 / 100 Indicative value €240k](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/3500-gt) [2004–2005 ### MC12 The Enzo-based GT1 homologation car; 50 road Stradales built. Collectibility 94 / 100 Indicative value €3.2M](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/mc12) Complete catalogue ## Every Maserati on file 13 models · 3 families By family Sort Filter ## Vintage Gran Turismo & Racing 6 The cars that built the name — the A6GCS and 250F that raced at the front, and the 3500/5000 GT, Ghibli and Sebring grand tourers that turned competition pedigree into the prettiest berlinettas in Modena. [1953–1955 · 2 variants A6GCS/53 The works sports racer; the Pinin Farina berlinetta is a blue-chip jewel. €5M 96 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/a6gcs-53) [1954–1960 250F The Grand Prix car that took Fangio to the 1957 world title. €4.5M 95 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/250f) [1957–1964 · 3 variants 3500 GT The first series-built road Maserati — a Touring grand tourer. €240k 49 sales · median $372.11K 82 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/3500-gt) [1959–1965 · 8 variants 5000 GT A racing-V8 flagship built for kings and the Shah; 34 made. €1.2M 88 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/5000-gt) [1962–1968 · 2 variants Sebring The compact Vignale GT named for the marque’s 1957 win. €200k 27 sales · median $117K 79 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/sebring) [1967–1973 · 3 variants Ghibli Giugiaro’s low-slung V8 GT; the SS Spyder is the trophy. €320k 86 sales · median $218.03K 87 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/ghibli) ## Mid-Engined Classics 3 Maserati’s answer to the mid-engined revolution under Citroën ownership — Giugiaro’s Bora and Merak and Bertone’s Khamsin, sharp-edged 1970s exotics with Modena V6 and V8 power. [1971–1978 · 2 variants Bora The marque’s first mid-engined road car — a 4.9 V8 GT. €220k 29 sales · median $129.81K 84 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/bora) [1972–1983 · 2 variants Merak The Bora’s V6 little brother, sharing the Citroën-era hardware. €95k 76 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/merak) [1974–1982 · 2 variants Khamsin Bertone’s glass-tailed V8 grand tourer — the elegant wedge. €180k 17 sales · median $74.82K 80 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/khamsin) ## Modern Halo · MC12 & MC20 4 The cars that put the Trident back at the top — the Enzo-derived MC12 that swept the FIA GT championship, and the clean-sheet MC20 with its Nettuno V6 that reopened the supercar line. [2004–2005 · 2 variants MC12 The Enzo-based GT1 homologation car; 50 road Stradales built. €3.2M 13 sales · median $3.57M 94 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/mc12) [2020– · 2 variants MC20 The clean-sheet revival — 630 hp from the twin-spark Nettuno V6. €260k 9 sales · median $217.38K 84 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/mc20) [2023 MCXtrema A 730 hp track-only MC20; just 62 built, all spoken for. €750k 86 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/mcxtrema) [2024– GT2 Stradale The road-legal edge of the GT2 racer — lighter, harder MC20. €320k 83 Open the file](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/maserati/gt2-stradale) The house ## The racing cars established the method; the grand tourers established the market. Founded in Bologna in 1914 by the Maserati brothers, the marque took its badge from Neptune’s trident on the Fountain of Bologna. Racing came first: the 250F won on debut in Argentina in 1954 and carried Fangio to the 1957 world title, one of the most revered front-engined Grand Prix cars ever built. Through the 1950s and 60s the road cars turned coachbuilt grand tourers — the 3500 GT, the Ghibli, the Sebring — into some of the most elegant berlinettas in Italy. The wedge era that followed gave the Citroën-owned firm the mid-engined Bora, Merak and Khamsin, the Trident’s answer to the supercar. In 2004 the MC12 took the marque back to the top: a Enzo-derived GT1 racer that swept the FIA GT championship. Two decades on, the MC20 and its Nettuno V6 reopened the same chapter — a clean-sheet supercar that put Maserati back among the halo makers. Founded 1914 The Maserati brothers opened their Bologna workshop on 1 December; the company was formally registered on 14 December. Bora production 564 cars Built from 1971 to 1978, it was Maserati's first rear-mid-engined road car. Race-derived road engine 350S to 3500 GT The 3500 GT's twin-cam straight-six was adapted from the 1956 350S racing engine. Modern auction record $5.2 million A 2005 MC12 sold at Broad Arrow's Monterey auction on 13 August 2025, the highest reported price for a modern Maserati. Selected milestones ### A bloodline, not a list. 1. 1914 The Bologna workshop Alfieri, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati establish Ditta Alfieri Maserati, initially preparing Isotta Fraschini cars for competition. 2. 1926 The first Trident car The Tipo 26 becomes the first car to carry the Trident and wins its class on its Targa Florio debut. 3. 1947 The first road car The A6 1500 opens Maserati's road-car programme as the founding brothers' formal collaboration with the company ends. 4. 1957 Series production replaces works racing The 3500 GT combines Touring coachwork with a 350S-derived straight-six as Maserati withdraws as a factory racing entrant. 5. 1971 A mid-engined road car The Bora debuts at Geneva as Maserati's first rear-mid-engined road model; 564 are built through 1978. 6. 2004 A homologation-led return The road-going MC12 is created to homologate Maserati's GT1 programme; 50 are produced across 2004 and 2005. 7. 2020 An in-house powertrain again The MC20 restores Maserati engine development and production after more than twenty years, pairing the Nettuno V6 with a carbon-fibre monocoque. What defines Maserati ### Competition informs the road cars The 3500 GT reused a 350S engine lineage, the MC12 homologated a GT1 programme, and the MC20 brought pre-chamber combustion into series production. ### Coachbuilders share the authorship Touring, Pinin Farina, Vignale, Frua, Ghia and Bertone gave related Maserati chassis distinct bodies; builder, specification and original configuration therefore matter. ### Performance serves distance Maserati's road-car baseline is the gran turismo: sustained speed paired with usable torque, cabins and long-distance comfort. The hands ## Who drew and built the Maserati files 4 names in the register stand behind this manufacturer. Each has a file of their own, following the work wherever it went. - [Giulio Alfieri Chief engineer for two decades of the trident. 7 files · engineering engineering 7 files](https://hiconium.com/people/giulio-alfieri) - [Giorgetto Giugiaro Ghibli, Bora and Merak — the trident’s wedge years. 3 files · design design 3 files](https://hiconium.com/people/giorgetto-giugiaro) - [Gioacchino Colombo Racing engines after Maranello. 2 files · engineering engineering 2 files](https://hiconium.com/people/gioacchino-colombo) - [AI-generated Marcello Gandini The Khamsin — the quieter wedge. One file · design design 1 file](https://hiconium.com/people/marcello-gandini) [The whole register of people](https://hiconium.com/people) The mark ## A trident from the town square. Bologna, the mid-1920s: the Maserati brothers build racing cars — all but Mario, the family’s painter, who is asked for a badge instead. The idea comes from a friend of the house, Marchese Diego de Sterlich: take the trident from Giambologna’s Neptune, the bronze in the city’s main square. Mario’s drawing went racing in 1926 on the first car to carry the family name, the Tipo 26 — class winner in the Targa Florio at its first attempt. The company left Bologna for Modena in 1940; Neptune’s trident stayed on the nose. Mario Maserati, 1926 · after Giambologna’s Neptune, Bologna ![Maserati crest, 1926–1937](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/maserati/logo-1926.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1926–1937 Mario’s first plate, screwed to the Tipo 26 — a class win in the Targa Florio on debut. ![Maserati crest, 1937–1943](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/maserati/logo-1937.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1937–1943 The oval arrives with Orsi ownership — red trident on polished metal. ![Maserati crest, 1954–1983](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/maserati/logo-1954.png.w1920.q75.webp) 1954–1983 The classic cut — white and blue, the name set on its navy band. ![Maserati crest, 2006–2015](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/maserati/logo-2006.png.w1920.q75.webp) 2006–2015 Drawn into three dimensions — chrome, shadow and a sharpened trident. ![Maserati crest, 2020–](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/marques/history/maserati/logo-2020.png.w1920.q75.webp) 2020– Flat black for the screen age: the trident pared back, the longhand script beneath.