The Maserati 5000 GT is a 2-door coupé from Maserati, built from 1959 to 1966, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 4937 cc V8 engine. Federico Formenti at Carrozzeria Touring (original design) / Giovanni Michelotti at Carrozzeria Allemano (later production cars) drew it. The total made was 34.
Where it came from
The Maserati 5000 GT (Tipo 103) is a 2-door coupé grand tourer, made by Italian automobile manufacturer Maserati from 1959–1966. A total of thirty-four were produced with bodies made by eight different Italian coach builders. The first car in the Tipo 103 series was the Scia di Persia (Shah of Persia), delivered to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been impressed by the Maserati 3500 after a test drive but demanded a more exclusive car for himself. He commissioned Maserati's chief engineer Giulio Alfieri to fit a slightly modified 5-litre engine from the Maserati 450S in the 3500GT's chassis.
Carrozzeria Touring developed the superleggera tubing and aluminium body of the two-seater coupé. The second car, also known as the Scia di Persia by Touring, was displayed at the 1959 Salone dell'automobile di Torino. In 2018, Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera announced the creation of a homage to the 5000 GT with a Maserati GranTurismo-based Sciàdipersia. A total of 25 cars were made (coupé and cabriolet combined).
Under the skin
Power comes from 4937 cc V8 engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1652 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF manual transmission / manual / 5-speed ZF manual (1960 onwards). The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2600 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Maserati Ghibli (AM115); assembly was at Modena, Italy. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Patrol, the Mini Mini, the Dodge Challenger — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Maserati catalogue sit the Maserati 150S and the Maserati 200S.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Maserati 5000 GT has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.