Maserati Sebring

Among the 117 Maserati entries in the MotorJury library, the Maserati Sebring holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1962. 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 Sebring properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Ferrari Ferrari 250 GTO, the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Aston Martin Aston Martin DB5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Maserati Sebring reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3485 cc Tipo AM101, 101/10 Straight-six engine / I6 / 3,694 cc Tipo AM106 I6 / 4,012 cc Tipo AM106/1 I6; kerb weight is recorded at 1520 kg (dry); drive goes through ZF 5-speed manual / optional Borg-Warner 3-speed 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. Production is recorded at 591 units, which makes it a limited-production machine by any standard.

Its place in the Maserati story

Within Maserati's own catalogue the Maserati Sebring sits alongside the Maserati 150S, the Maserati 200S, the Maserati 300S, the Maserati 3200 GT. The record names the Maserati 3500 GT as its predecessor and the Maserati Indy as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giovanni Michelotti at Vignale. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Modena.

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.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Maserati Sebring was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.