The bond between Fiat and Chrysler continues to grow with this latest piece of news that Maserati and Alfa Romeo may get SUVs based on the Jeep Grand Cherokee platform, which according to Sergio Marchionne can easily take on the larger and more powerful powertrains that a luxury SUV has to offer.
This very same platform is actually shared with Mercedes-Benz and the German company uses it for their ML-Class, which has AMG models on offer. Jeep’s own offering includes a 5.7 litre Hemi and a 6.4 litre SRT-8 Hemi. A large Maserati/Alfa Romeo SUV based on this platform could house Ferrari’s front mounted rear wheel drive engines, already used in Maserati passenger cars.
The new Italian SUV duo could hit the market in 12 to 18 months and a production site is already planned – Chrysler’s Jefferson North assembly plant in Detroit, right smack in the land of SUVs and trucks. We’ve seen a design study of a Maserati SUV in the past – back in 2003 at the Detroit show, the Maserati Kubang concept shown above was exhibited.
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Maserati Kubang Kerian ? Kubang Ulu ? Kubang Kinabatangan ?
the design more like it’s gonna go for berkubang…like kerbau
Kubang Pasu!!! haha…next we gonna hear names like Grik, Pontian, Kinabatangan…hahaha
Maserati Kerbau is better…hahahahaha
Another sports marque trying to pull off a cayenne.
What’s next? An MPV that drives like a sports car?
This design if real or concept is so wrong. So ugly
pretty ugly~..
this is much nicer than that cayenne
It is unnecessary , but then again… thats whut everyone first thought about the cayenne
porsche maserati please stick to sportscars and supercars!
cayenne makes BIG money for porsche. and they still make good sports cars.. so whats wrong with that?
if this comes at the same price as the cayenne…we will see more maseratis in malaysia…=)
Kubang? Kumbang? LOL! One of the worst car ever saw with Maserati badge.
They have Merak in the 80’s…
Hahah…same here but mind you this was waaay back in 2003 kan but still unacceptable for a Maserati…Cayenne on the other hand improved with time :-)
there are something wrong with the car proportion
hopefully it just a rendering.
otherwise it’s so crazy ugly.
kubang = kubae = sepah….
Ugly! and the pictures look like those from an 80s car brochure!
er this pic is old?
say no to SUVs. aunties and rich datins shouldnt have more choices.
Just awful SUV . A shame for maseratti .