Italdesign-Giugiaro presents luxury Maserati Saloon Car Prototype at the Geneva 2000 Motor Show:

Top performance, but above all, comfort and services

A 30s/40s Limousine Updated for the Third Millennium, with an eye on the US Market

(Please note that the Buran is a design exercise only, and not connected with the Maserati Factory in any way.)

Italdesign-Giugiaro will be taking part in the important Geneva 2000 Motor Show with a luxury high-performance Maserati saloon car (3.2 litre engine, 370 HP, 4WD) based on the design of early twentieth century automobiles, based on the limousine with large boot concept. The prototype is a styling and design challenge, based on the idea of creating a new luxury saloon car for the European Sportcar and American markets.

It looks like Giugiaro's homage to the new century is to go back over the last one, and to preserve design features based on the shape of the human body and on human behavior, updating them to the needs of the new century: the privilege of motion, easy access, spacious, multi-purpose interior, for work, the family, leisure.

If the trend in late twentieth century flagships was their sports styling, creating low, aerodynamic shapes reminiscent of a coupé, MASERATI BURAN, is far more solid looking, close to 5 m. long, unashamedly high (1630 mm) and unapologetically wide (1950 mm), creating a spacious interior which the designers and technicians from Moncalieri have fitted out with a complete range of luxury services. A safe, roomy GT close to the comfort of the home, but also as practical as an office, to get the most out of the time spent on the road, which America's highway regulations turn into a leisurely cruise, or the best of a rather faster trip in Europe.

The aims of Giorgetto Giugiaro, Fabrizio Giugiaro and Maserati are focused on the interior of the car (whether people carrier or saloon car) continuing the research begun in 1976 with the New York Taxi, and developed with Megagamma, Capsula Together, Orbit, Asgard, Columbus, and the recent 1998 Structura prototype.

The Buran at the Geneva 2000 Motor Show clearly showing what looks to be wheels from Giugiaro's first Ghibli.
Is that Fabrizio Giugiaro standing behind the car?