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Originally Posted by kttxz06
Agreed. And the sad thing is, it doesn't take much to get these cars back to their glory. Update the fkn interior to Mercedes level and upgrade the tech to Lexus Level and blamo. At $150k, these cars will fly. Oh yea, and add 50 more hp. At least get them up to the 500 hp mark. They can do that. But, they choose not too for some reason. They spent their $ on that damn Levante when they should of upgraded the GT and designed a better 4 door.
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The Italians aren't known for solid business practices to whit:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/10/ital...ions-loom.html
Their university educated talent is leaving for work in other parts of the EU because the "old crowd" doesn't want to advance their business practices.
Under declaring income to avoid paying taxes was a national game for the longest time too. To crack down the Carabinieri were resorting to some draconian practices. The ONLY time I ever saw Carabinieri on the Autostrada (highways) it was the "Finanza". They would pull over high rollers and ask for their tax documents (which they had to have in their car). The Finanza cops would run their tax records on the spot and if Guiseppe was driving a +100K Euro car but only declared say 80K on his taxes they would impound it on the spot, haul it away and leave the driver standing on the side of the road (that's no shit too, I watched it happen twice).
Agree on the Maserati though, if they put in a luxury interior and put more muscle under the hood they would sell the #$@% out of them. In the meantime, it seems they're content to sell to them to women who don't know different (no offense intended, chicks dig them), check this out:
Chinese women buy three times more Maseratis and twice as many Ferraris than Western women do.
A third of China’s millionaires are women, and they buy a disproportionately large share of high-performance sports cars in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Fiat SpA said the percentage of women buying its Maseratis in China is triple that of Europe, while the percentage buying its Ferraris is double the global average, according to Bloomberg.