Woody
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I phyisically laughed when walking through Milton Keynes on my own recently - I'd just walked past some promotional girls all dressed up in Nivea gear and I thought of Loz - it was a couple of days after I'd secured my GranSport, finally!!
I'll keep it brief as I plan to do a more 'formal' write up at a later date, but in short, 4 years after first looking for a Maserati (a facelift 4200 at the time) I've finally bought my GranSport.
Its a late one - April 2007 (built in Feb 07), had just under 30k on it when I first saw it, two owners, full main dealer history (Maranello and Meridien) and, well, basically, if I was to score it out of 100 using my personal criteria, its probably a 98/100.
I first saw it about 6 weeks ago. I finally agreed a deal about two weeks ago, post inspection at Bill McGrath. As soon as I picked it up, it went back to McGraths to address a couple of issues and to get the 31k service carried out. I picked it up last Wed, giave it a very quick was and then Thursday, hit the road to Luxembourg....nothing like a little gentle run to break it in.
I was holding back so I could show the car to my family before posting up here, but in the hope that the dont frequent sports maserati.com, having already been spotted (literally, the first time I drove it any distance in the daylight!) I thought I'd take the plunge. As they say, pictures paint a thousand words, so here you go......
A quick wash while the sun shines then up to the local greenery
What a place to be! One of the 100 was lost for the dash being beige, causing reflections at night....but I'll get over that as its not too bad in reality.
In Brugge
In some place the a rse end of nowhere in Belgium. Seriously, no clue where as we let the sat nav find us somewhere for lunch! Beautiful place and I dazzled my missus with mon Francais. Or not.
And then, just to underline quite how cold it was on the mainland, here's a pic of the new toy in a relatively unfamiliar setting.
So, having had the car for around 2 weeks and having told pretty much no one (pretty much no one, eh Dem? ), I'm about fit to burst! Seriuously, most of you lads have been down this route - you get the car, you want to pick it up, right?
Well, I found the car, arranged for the inspection (took nearly two weeks due to the M1 being CLOSED the day of the first appointment - you couldnt make it up), then adding the time to work out what really needed doing on the list and what was just McGraths being thorough.....then picking the car up in the dark and in the ice, and THEN having to wait for the car to be serviced, it really has taken an age to get the car close to being right and in the driveway.
As it is, I still want to give it a good wash (clay bar etc) so am willing the weather to get better. Until then, I'll keep myself happy with the sound. Ooooh, the sound.....
As I said, I will do a more complete write up at some point soon....
Cheers
Woody
I'll keep it brief as I plan to do a more 'formal' write up at a later date, but in short, 4 years after first looking for a Maserati (a facelift 4200 at the time) I've finally bought my GranSport.
Its a late one - April 2007 (built in Feb 07), had just under 30k on it when I first saw it, two owners, full main dealer history (Maranello and Meridien) and, well, basically, if I was to score it out of 100 using my personal criteria, its probably a 98/100.
I first saw it about 6 weeks ago. I finally agreed a deal about two weeks ago, post inspection at Bill McGrath. As soon as I picked it up, it went back to McGraths to address a couple of issues and to get the 31k service carried out. I picked it up last Wed, giave it a very quick was and then Thursday, hit the road to Luxembourg....nothing like a little gentle run to break it in.
I was holding back so I could show the car to my family before posting up here, but in the hope that the dont frequent sports maserati.com, having already been spotted (literally, the first time I drove it any distance in the daylight!) I thought I'd take the plunge. As they say, pictures paint a thousand words, so here you go......
A quick wash while the sun shines then up to the local greenery
What a place to be! One of the 100 was lost for the dash being beige, causing reflections at night....but I'll get over that as its not too bad in reality.
In Brugge
In some place the a rse end of nowhere in Belgium. Seriously, no clue where as we let the sat nav find us somewhere for lunch! Beautiful place and I dazzled my missus with mon Francais. Or not.
And then, just to underline quite how cold it was on the mainland, here's a pic of the new toy in a relatively unfamiliar setting.
So, having had the car for around 2 weeks and having told pretty much no one (pretty much no one, eh Dem? ), I'm about fit to burst! Seriuously, most of you lads have been down this route - you get the car, you want to pick it up, right?
Well, I found the car, arranged for the inspection (took nearly two weeks due to the M1 being CLOSED the day of the first appointment - you couldnt make it up), then adding the time to work out what really needed doing on the list and what was just McGraths being thorough.....then picking the car up in the dark and in the ice, and THEN having to wait for the car to be serviced, it really has taken an age to get the car close to being right and in the driveway.
As it is, I still want to give it a good wash (clay bar etc) so am willing the weather to get better. Until then, I'll keep myself happy with the sound. Ooooh, the sound.....
As I said, I will do a more complete write up at some point soon....
Cheers
Woody