Maserati Biturbo

The Maserati Biturbo is one of 117 Maserati models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1981. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Maserati Biturbo properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Pajero, the DeLorean Motor Company DeLorean DMC-12, the Toyota Toyota Camry — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Maserati Biturbo reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L twin-turbocharged 90° V6 / 2.5 L twin-turbocharged 90° V6 / 2.8 L twin-turbocharged 90° V6; drive goes through 5-speed ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 4-speed ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Maserati story

Within Maserati's own catalogue the Maserati Biturbo sits alongside the Maserati 150S, the Maserati 200S, the Maserati 300S, the Maserati 3200 GT. The record names the successor = Maserati Ghibli#Ghibli (AM336) / Maserati Ghibli (AM336) (Coupé) / Maserati Quattroporte#Quattroporte IV / Maserati Quattroporte IV / Maserati Ghibli (M157) (Sedan) as its predecessor and the Maserati Ghibli#Ghibli (AM336) / Maserati Ghibli (AM336) (Coupé) / Maserati Quattroporte#Quattroporte IV / Maserati Quattroporte IV / Maserati Ghibli (M157) (Sedan) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Pierangelo Andreani (1977) / Marcello Gandini (1988 and 1991 facelifts) / Giuseppe Mittino at Zagato (Spyder). Assembly is recorded at Coupé/Saloon: / Italy: Modena (Maserati) / Spyder: / Italy: Rho, Lombardy / Terrazzano di Rho (Zagato).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Maserati Biturbo costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.