The author is being very generous! The cam belts need done every 30k or 3 years and will cost about £2k at a specialist, expect to pay considerably more at a main dealer. Its the chain service that needs done at 68k and costs £2.5-3k. Clutches last around 12k miles and cost about £2.7k. Most cars have had the throttle bodies sorted by now, but if not budget about £1k. The other big expense is the wishbones. When they need replaced its around £3-4k for all 8. If there is no red ignition key you won't be able to get new keys and you might need to replace the ignition ECU at around £3k. It would be much more cost effective to buy one with all these things recently carried out. Hence the saying, "There's nothing more expensive than a cheap Maserati". By the way, I'm a huge fan and absolutely love my 3200GTA.
This coupe has never been my favorite, but I did take one through tech inspection at a NASA HPDE event in March. It was in gorgeous shape. Sadly, its driver (a very nice man by the name of, I kid you not, Guido) crashed it in one of his first sessions. I understand he was able to drive it home, but I have to think an insurance claim would result in a total loss.
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The author is being very generous! The cam belts need done every 30k or 3 years and will cost about £2k at a specialist, expect to pay considerably more at a main dealer. Its the chain service that needs done at 68k and costs £2.5-3k. Clutches last around 12k miles and cost about £2.7k. Most cars have had the throttle bodies sorted by now, but if not budget about £1k. The other big expense is the wishbones. When they need replaced its around £3-4k for all 8. If there is no red ignition key you won't be able to get new keys and you might need to replace the ignition ECU at around £3k. It would be much more cost effective to buy one with all these things recently carried out. Hence the saying, "There's nothing more expensive than a cheap Maserati". By the way, I'm a huge fan and absolutely love my 3200GTA.
Hmmmm, I do actually rather like these. That's a lot of car for not a lot of money.
This coupe has never been my favorite, but I did take one through tech inspection at a NASA HPDE event in March. It was in gorgeous shape. Sadly, its driver (a very nice man by the name of, I kid you not, Guido) crashed it in one of his first sessions. I understand he was able to drive it home, but I have to think an insurance claim would result in a total loss.