On the first press day of Detroit there was a small buzz about what might be lurking under the satin sheet on the Maserati stand. The large silhouette clearly indicated an SUV as did the small Kubang logo on the stand’s side (!) but there were rumours that this version might have a more resolved interior than the clearly ‘work in progress’ version shown at Frankfurt back in the autumn of 2011.
Unfortunately the upmarket Italian model with credible off-road Jeep underpinnings at Detroit turned out to be the exact same model. However, group head of design Lorenzo Ramaciotti did confirm to CDN that the car – due to go on sale late 2013 or early 2014 – was very close to its design freeze and that the car on display, “is already a lot closer to production than most of the concepts shown at Detroit”. Which is either good or bad news depending on your perspective…
By Guy Bird
