MODENESE sportscar model Maserati is getting ready to take the wraps off the drop-top model of its MC20 supercar.
This week, Maserati launched photographs that present a disguised prototype of its MC20 convertible exiting the gates of the Viale Ciro Menotti plant exterior Modena. The camouflage that the model selected contains a play of blue sky and clouds – fairly befitting for an open-topped supercar!
Ever since Maserati unveiled the carbon fibre-tubbed and butterfly-doored MC20 coupe in 2020, which is powered by the model’s first in-house-designed engine in 20 years, motoring lovers have anticipated the revealing of the second variant (a convertible/roadster/Spyder model).
The entrance of the MC20 convertible clearly takes its cue from the coupe’s distinctive frontal styling, which has crafted by Klaus Busse, who’s now Maserati Vice President of Design.
The MC20’s sculpted entrance finish, which is claimed to be the product of 2000 man-hours in motorsport agency Dallara’s wind tunnel and greater than 1000 computational fluid-dynamics simulations, incorporates vortex mills and its fully-encased flooring steadily rises within the centre. Channels behind the entrance wheels successfully push the entrance axle downwards, whereas door-sill ducts channel air to the motor, whereas the diffuser and refined spoiler utilise up-washed air to create downforce.
The all-new twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 (named Nettuno) is mated with an eight-speed moist dual-clutch transmission and produces peak outputs of 463kW at 7500rpm and 730Nm of torque from 3000 to 5500rpm.
Together with the supercar’s light-weight physique (the MC20 coupe is claimed have a kerb weight of about 1500kg) and superior aerodynamics, the sonorous Nettuno motor propels the Maserati from zero to kph in a claimed 2.88 seconds and on to a prime pace in extra of 326km/h.
Maserati has not launched official particulars concerning the MC20 convertible, nevertheless it’s more likely to be solely fractionally slower than its tin-topped sibling, which made its Australian debut earlier this month.
The Geneva Present in late February 2022 would have been splendid for the revealing of the MC20 convertible, however that occasion has once more been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Suffice to say the ultimate model of this automobile ought to break cowl within the first half of subsequent 12 months, at which level we could have particulars about its estimated native arrival. Maserati has mentioned it can observe up the MC convertible with both an electrically assisted or battery-electric variant of the automotive.
