Moment of truth for the new Maserati Grecale: can it cope with the annoyingly talented Porsche Macan? Our twin test by chrischiltoncar has the answer 🤔
saloon is about to check out. And you can’t get much more ‘volume’ in the premium sector than a medium-sized SUV.you see in these pictures, a car with some respectable DNA we’ll explain in a minute, and one aimed directly at Porsche’s most popular car, the Macan SUV. Porsche sold 86,724 examples of its smallest SUV in 2022, almost four times Maserati’s entire output for the year, so the opportunities are huge.
So we’re not off to an entirely winning start as we prepare to leave the office car park on an A- and B-road route that winds its way down to Reading through four counties for a rendezvous with the Grecale’s nemesis. It’s more of a 3-3 draw, until the Italians sneak another one past the post by handling some crusty asphalt with surprising sophistication.
But running nose to tail through the corners chasing after the Macan, the Maserati is real surprise. Its body control is also strong, but the biggest takeaway is how keen it is to turn. While the Porsche uses its front-end grip and tight suspension to keep pace with your left-right commands, the Maserati shows us a faint hint of the front-mid-engined character that made the transaxle Quattroporte such a hoot 20 years ago.
To be fair to Maserati, there is more car back there – and far more car than the 5kg on the spec sheet would suggest. The Grecale’s 2901mm wheelbase is 6mm longer than even the Porsche Cayenne’s, so the Macan on its 2807mm platform was always going to feel tight when it came to space comparisons. Not that it’s small exactly. There’s plenty of room for four adults and the 488-litre boot is probably big enough for most family jobs.
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