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Doing the full tuning works on Italian supercars always seems wrong, somehow. Whereas American seems to lend itself to the more-power-and-bodywork treatment, it seems almost sacrilegious to subject beautiful Italian metal to the same fate.
That’s never stopped German tuning house Novitec, mind. They’ve already brought us the supercharged Ferrari 599 and supercharged F430, and now we’ve got a first look at the, er, supercharged Maserati GranTurismo S.
That supercharger, along with a remapped ECU and a new exhaust system, boosts the power out of the GT’s 4.7-litre V8 from a piffling 433bhp to a whopping 600bhp.
To deal with all that power, the Tridente GranTurismo (for that is what Novitec calls it) gets a revised suspension systems, massive 21-inch wheels on the back (the fronts are mere 20s) and a big carbon fibre bodykit.
And you know what? We don’t hate it. OK, it doesn’t quite have the ice-cool, understated chic of the stock GTS, but it’s definitely not bad.
Or are we plainly wrong? Speak the truth and we shall listen.
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TrekyD commented on this article
at 03:52 pm on 08 May 2009
Why tuen a car like that? surely there are stock car's that are better.
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ScreenName commented on this article
at 04:03 pm on 08 May 2009
Can you get one without the bodykit?
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120Y commented on this article
at 04:25 pm on 08 May 2009
it needs black rims. without all the fake bolts and stuff
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at 04:34 pm on 08 May 2009
i like it looks slightly more aggressive without goin over the top like some
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The_GTS commented on this article
at 04:53 pm on 08 May 2009
I'm sorry, but on the subject of making Italian cars look move agressive where they needn't, novitec's whole spectrum of sins committed with this Ferrari F430: http://www.tuningnews.net/article/090417/novitec-tulesto/ make the Granturismo S's body kit pale in comparison.
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