Thursday 17th October

Maserati announces GT2 Stradale pricing for UK

An early MC20 might cost £150k - a stripped out Stradale is more than double that...

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Maserati has confirmed that its 640hp GT2 Stradale will cost £338,880 in the UK. It’s available to order now, with deliveries kicking off in 2025. Just in time for the track day season, hopefully - give those RS, STO and LT owners something new to look at in the pitlane.

The GT2 is on the Maserati configurator already, without prices for options but with some very interesting extras available. Like Power Nude Texturised, which is a kind of peachy colour from the Fuoriserie range of colours. Metallic Blue Infinito and Giallo Genio look great as well. There are a wealth of carbon options there, on offer individually (including the louvred wings) or in an Exterior Carbon Pack; there's a lot of ‘Matte Carbon Look’ accessories also on the list which sound less desirable. The rear wing can be removed for a subtler look, and the standard bucket seats can be swapped for less aggressive, electrically adjustable items. A suspension lifter might be useful if the underground garage has a steep slope. 

Of most interest to PHers will probably be the Performance Packs coming for the GT2. They’re going to include harnesses, Cup 2 Michelins, additional bracing and a fire extinguisher. The standard ceramic brakes are going to be upgradeable to a racing-spec set up. 

All pretty promising, then, given the nature of the modifications and the solid foundation offered by the MC20. Always nice to have something a little different to everyone else, too. But the super duper road racer market is a well populated one right now, and while getting on allocation lists for new ones remains a source of some consternation, buyers spending GT2 Stradale money will have much else to consider. There’s the 992 GT3 RS, most obviously, available with 28 miles for £300k; a Huracan STO (with exactly the same amount of power as the Maserati) is the same money in similarly new condition. Don’t forget the AMG GT Black Series and McLaren 765LT of the recent past, too. Plenty to think about for those after a new track day toy for 2025 - expect a first drive verdict early in the new year. 

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• Maserati GT2 gets 640hp Stradale road variant
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[supacool1]

Odd time to release this considering I recall Maserati are losing money hand over fist...

Lovely thing though.

[E90_M3Ross]

supacool1 said:

Odd time to release this considering I recall Maserati are losing money hand over fist...

Lovely thing though.

Not necessarily, probably not much in the way of development costs and sell for lots of profit at that price.

That said, I think the base car is somewhat of a sales flop, isn't it?

[MDL111]

a better color choice and painting the entire car (possibly without the roof) would make it look better imo

[V41LEY]

I’ll give it 5 years. Should be able to pick one up for about £40k !

[spikyone]

Really surprised that they've got away with calling this the GT2 - didn't Porsche throw a tantrum when Aston Martin tried to use GT3 on the Vantage that ended up being the GT8?

Great to have another manufacturer making this sort of car anyway. It'd be even better to see Maserati actually take it GT racing.

[theicemario]

spikyone said:

Really surprised that they've got away with calling this the GT2 - didn't Porsche throw a tantrum when Aston Martin tried to use GT3 on the Vantage that ended up being the GT8?

Great to have another manufacturer making this sort of car anyway. It'd be even better to see Maserati actually take it GT racing.

But they already do, in the GT2 European Series. Hence this being the Stradale

[gruppeb86]

£338,880., Sounds cheap lol.

To be fair, am all for individuality, so would consider it over something that most others would opt for., just to be different.

[nismo48]

V41LEY said:

I’ll give it 5 years. Should be able to pick one up for about £40k !

[AlpineA110NL]

Looks cool but no thanks.

[LotusOmega375D]

spikyone said:

Really surprised that they've got away with calling this the GT2 - didn't Porsche throw a tantrum when Aston Martin tried to use GT3 on the Vantage that ended up being the GT8?

Great to have another manufacturer making this sort of car anyway. It'd be even better to see Maserati actually take it GT racing.

Why should Porsche have copyright over the GT nomenclature? Lots of other cars out there from days gone by with similar names, such as Lotus Elise GT1, Aston Martin Vantage GT2, Lotus Esprit GT3, even Ferrari 308 GT4.

[Mark_Blanchard]

Prefer this to the look of the standard MC20. Hope it sells well.

[thegreenhell]

Looks like a Mansory Edition with all the carbon bits and that awful colour.

[IMI A]

V41LEY said:

I’ll give it 5 years. Should be able to pick one up for about £40k !

So many supercars being built you could be right!

[theplayingmantis]

Lovely as is the MC20.

[spikyone]

theicemario said:

But they already do, in the GT2 European Series. Hence this being the Stradale

Ah thanks, I wasn't aware of the racing version. Be better to see it in GT3 for wider exposure but better than nothing!

LotusOmega375D said:

Why should Porsche have copyright over the GT nomenclature? Lots of other cars out there from days gone by with similar names, such as Lotus Elise GT1, Aston Martin Vantage GT2, Lotus Esprit GT3, even Ferrari 308 GT4.

Vantages were GT8 and GT12 as far as I remember, the "GT3" is their race car that races in the series with that name. The Elise GT1 was so-called because it was the homologation version of the race car.
The others (and Lotus) all predate Porsche's legal threats (and the Ferrari was created long before the 911 GT3 or Cayman GT4 existed anyway so why would that be relevant?) - and it's not copyright, it's trademark.

Doing a bit of reading now, and Porsche trademarked GT3 in 2011, I was mistaken though and it was the Vantage GT12 that would have been called GT3.
https://www.hwmastonmartin.co.uk/blog/the-story-of...

Given that they did that, it's surprising that they didn't do the same with GT2.

[S600BSB]

Stunning.

[chrisironside]

I quite want to like this but to me it looks a bit of a state. The MC20 is such a beautiful car and this just seems a bit of a monster.

[Terminator X]

I wish I tried harder at school as that car is incredible to me

TX.

[okv3]

I know they're not quite in the same category, but I'd have this over an SF90XX any day of the week. Really like the standard MC20, though I've yet to see one close up.

[Johntechwriter]

From what we see here, Maserati management know what they are doing and they are doing it right. Unlike their peers at Alfa, whose product planners seem dedicated to the destruction of every promising new model. (Consider the laundry list of wrong-headed decisions that ruined what could have been Alfa’s return to greatness, the C4: the carbon body and chassis, which priced the car out of reach of its intended market; the brutally hard suspension; the unbelievable refusal to offer a manual transmission.)

All the more unfortunate, then, that Maserati is burdened by having the Stellantis albatross around its neck. (Fellow boomers will see much in common between Stellantis and British Leyland, which in the 1970s provided the kiss of death to Britain’s automobile industry.)

The sins of incompetent product planning at Alfa will be visited on Maserati, in all likelihood dooming two beloved Italian marques. For decades, motorheads around the world desperately have wanted both manufacturers to modernize and build reliable and well-supported cars that arouse passion as only Italian cars can. Sadly, the renaissance we hoped for likely is not to be. What is it about late-stage capitalism that has the bad guys getting rich as they desecrate the heritage of brands they bought in order to exploit, while the good guys are reduced to selling pencils on a New York sidewalk?