Category: Exotic Sports 
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Achingly beautiful, phenomenal sounding and surprisingly able four-seat GT.
Gearbox still a sticking point for some, steering too edgy at straight ahead position, seat height and support.
Addition of the S to the GranTurismo boosts its sporting appeal significantly.
Customers will cut you a lot of slack to own a car as beautiful as this, but even Maserati realise that they will only put up with so much.
The Italian firm has undergone something of a transformation in the reliability stakes in the past few years, investing heavily in much-needed training for its growing staff. The GranTurismo S demonstrates this inside and out, with the fit and finish that you'd expect from a car that commands such a hefty price tag.
It's not perfect though, the sat nav is not only shared with Citroens and Peugeots, but its operation is needlessly fiddly and the example in our test car cut out inexplicably. The rest of the switchgear all works well and although the GranTurismo's interior is a huge leap forward, there's still an overriding feeling that squeaks and rattles will arise far more quickly than they might in similarly priced competition.
Similarly, some of the details aren't quite up to the standards of bigger volume rivals. In particular, Maserati doesn't seem to put as much importance in hiding where the airbags are contained beneath the interior trim, deep seams betraying their position.
