Rwc13
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So, I have been hankering after another QP5 duo select for a year or so - I have such fond memories of my first 2006 QP5 back in 2009, and I am convinced it was the best QP I have ever driven armed with the experience at the time of back to backing it with a ZF. It just seemed to go down the road better.
Finally, a 2005 QP has appeared that I absolutely love the specification of, particularly colour wise. It has had one owner and done 15000 kms from new, but needs a light restoration due to a lack of care by the previous owner - mainly door dings, small parking scuffs, kerbed wheels, sticky plastics and some dry and cracked dashboard top leather. However, it appears to have potentially only had 3 services in 16 years, the most recent in 2019 by the Maserati main dealer in Lisbon, since which it has only done about 2k kms. It even has its original front tyres!
If you were similarly in the market for a Duoselect QP, subject to nothing significant turning up on the mechanical/structural inspection, and a realistic offer being accepted by the owner, would you? Or would the shockingly poor service history totally put you off. I am convinced a light restoration could turn it into a long term keeper and concours standard car, as the rest is cosmetically very good.
Interested to hear views on this.
Finally, a 2005 QP has appeared that I absolutely love the specification of, particularly colour wise. It has had one owner and done 15000 kms from new, but needs a light restoration due to a lack of care by the previous owner - mainly door dings, small parking scuffs, kerbed wheels, sticky plastics and some dry and cracked dashboard top leather. However, it appears to have potentially only had 3 services in 16 years, the most recent in 2019 by the Maserati main dealer in Lisbon, since which it has only done about 2k kms. It even has its original front tyres!
If you were similarly in the market for a Duoselect QP, subject to nothing significant turning up on the mechanical/structural inspection, and a realistic offer being accepted by the owner, would you? Or would the shockingly poor service history totally put you off. I am convinced a light restoration could turn it into a long term keeper and concours standard car, as the rest is cosmetically very good.
Interested to hear views on this.