are these worth having?

mark waffled on in a quite bewildering manner to produce...

How do you fancy Christmas cards from every AA man in the your area? You'll know them all within six months driving one of them, because owning a Biturbo you'll never leave the county.

Do you live near a Maserati dealership?

Do you have a rampaging desire to haemorrhage money?

Top Tip - put the Maserati parts and service dept number in your mobile, preferably on speed dial. Listing them on friends and family will save you hundreds on the phone bill.

the Biturbo is one of those cars most car enthusiasts would like to own, but most are sensible enough to avoid. I'd love a nice Ghibli Cup, but I'd need to find a Luigi[1] and earn about £300k a year before I'd consider one.

Any thoroughbred car that depreciates like a Maserati BiTurbo does so for a reason.

Pete M

P.S I did the head gaskets and cam belts on one of these once, can you tell?

And what is a Ghibli Cup?

Alex

Sounds like all those mechanics that say "I did a turbo on a 200SX - once". Can't get turbo off as rear engine side nut is inaccessible unless turbo taken off with manifold. Can't get the manifold off as two nuts are behind turbo/manifold joint.

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Otherwise ok?

Do as I did and subscribe to the Yahoo "Biturbo" group for a couple of months. Other people's tales of woe convinced me of just how expensive and fragile they can be. I thought about buying one as a restoration project as it would be less daunting than trying to run one........ Cheers, Bill.

Hmm. Doesn't sound that different to a Vauxhall Senator 24v I once worked on.

Alex

Hard one to call !

It looks ugly. Don't park it next to a Proton, or you might mistake them.

Dirt cheap to buy. There's often a reason for that....

Slow. Something that complex and expensive ought to go faster (my Alfa 75 would certainly see one off)

Nightmarish to work on. You need fingers like a spider crab.

Reliable. If it goes wrong, it's because someone missed doing something important in the past. OTOH, there's a lot of this stuff to do, and the temptation to skip things is great.

Works better and more reliably when used regularly. Doesn't mind street parking (and is less likely to attract wrong-uns than a Ferrari)

On the good side, Maserati mechanics are easier to find, more competent and a damn sight cheaper than for most Italian exotica.

Nice interior.

All the bad aspects of a Maserati, few of the good ones.