2023
Semi-Auto
28.8 mpg
Tax: £170
Mileage: 2,200
Hybrid
2020
Automatic
Tax: n/a
Mileage: 27,000
Petrol
2019
28.5 mpg
Tax: £180
Mileage: 32,750
2017
39.2 mpg
Tax: £365
Mileage: 92,437
Diesel
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It's mark of the rise and rise of the SUV that every single luxury brand now knows it has to have such a thing within its model portfolio. Maserati has been dabbling with the idea for years, showing its Kubang concept at motorshows as long ago as 2003. The brand finally got around to updating this Giugiaro prototype in 2011, but it took until 2016 to get it into production, badged as the Levante. Was the wait worthwhile? Let's find out.
Too often, Maserati has lived off its past glories and traded on the image of Fifties GT sportscars driven by iconic Italian movie stars. The production reality, even in the later part of the last century and the early part of this, was rather different, Maserati models being those you chose over German rivals only if you were prepared to put up with patchy build quality, frustrating switchgear and borrowed tech. The point where things began to change can be traced to the launch of this Levante back in 2016 and since then, the brand seems to have gained a fresh sense of direction. You'll feel more of that at the wheel of this car's more modern SUV showroom stablemate, the Grecale, but the Levante still has a credible appeal for those besotted with the Trident badge who see nothing un-Maserati-like in the idea of a 2.2-tonne Crossover primarily powered by a little 2.0-littre four cylinder mild hybrid engine. Combine that with the lately-inflated near-six-figure starting price and we might find ourselves struggling with that proposition, were we to be in this part of the market. But the Levante feels a more credibly exotic thing with more cylinders beneath the bonnet, particularly in this gloriously emotive V8 form. In contrast to modern Maseratis of the not too distant past, it's more a fine Chianti than a corked Prosecco. But there's still a bit of both here that might leave you undecided about signing that final fat cheque. With Maseratis, it was always thus. And perhaps it always will be.
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