In March 1932, one of the company's founders, Alfieri Maserati, said goodbye forever. Alfieri Maserati said goodbye to his beloved racing career forever. His departure was a sign that while the yet-to-be-established Maserati had been winning a lot of races, the company was being run poorly, and in 1937 it sold part of its shares to the Orsi family and moved its headquarters to Modena.
Meanwhile, despite strong competition from Mercedes, Maserati scored a series of victories, notably on May 30th 1939 - a proud day for Maserati indeed - when a driver won the Indianapolis 500 in a Maserati 8CTF, and again the following year in 1940, when the Maserati 8CTF won the Indianapolis 500 in the United States. 1940, another victory in that event.
During the Second World War, Maserati began producing machine tools, electrical components, spark plugs and other electronic equipment. After the war, the factory resumed production and developed a new high-performance sedan, the A6 1500, while the A6GCS was introduced to the market to face the challenges of sports cars from Alfa Romeo and Ferrari. In the face of aggressive competition from Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, the A6GCS won the Circuit of Modena. The annual production of Italian cars in the Second World War amounted to only 28,982, which had a direct impact on Maserati's sales.
In order to get out of the shadow of the war as soon as possible, in the 1950s and 1960s the Italian car companies began to improve their products and put new models into production. Maserati was no exception. The early fifties proved to be a real climb for Maserati, starting with Alfa Romeo and then adding a new model from Ferrari. Competition from Alfa Romeo and then Ferrari forced Maserati to consider taking on Gioacchino Colombo, who had been responsible for improving the A6GCM, as Chief Engineer in 1953, and reorganizing the team to regain its racing victories. This involved a Maserati car beating a Ferrari in the 1953 Italian Drivers' Grand Prix.
By that time, Crob was still busy designing what would become the Maserati 250F, which won the Argentine GP in 1954 - its first victory since its birth - and 1955 and 1956 were busy and productive years for the team. It wasn't until 1957 that the Maserati 250F achieved its fifth championship title, a supreme honor for Maserati. It was also the year that Maserati officially announced its retirement from racing. It wasn't a complete 'backward turn', in fact, despite no longer competing directly, Maserati continued to build cars such as the Birdcage and other models for private teams. And it still has strong links with Formula One, such as building the 3-liter V12 engine for the Cooper team in 1965.
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The MC12 looks back on more than 30 years of participation, with nearly 500 outright victories and countless stage victories,*** 23 championship titles, 32 Formula One victories and the only Italian brand to have won the Indianapolis 500 twice. From rallies in Colorado to speedboat races in Venice, Maserati has topped all competitive disciplines. The ****ing hallmark here is the incredible versatility it possesses - on the track, on the road, on the ramp, or in Grand Prix and endurance events. As well as on land, Maserati also triumphed in water racing. With the release of the 3500GT in 1958, it meant that Maserati began to shift its attention from competition cars to mass-produced cars, and accordingly the factory began to expand. Until 1968, Maserati went on to develop classic models such as the Birdcage series, the Mistral, the Sebring and the Ghibli, with the Quattroporte being the first four-door sedan in the company's history to be fitted with a 4.136-liter V8 engine with a cylinder clamp angle of 90°.
In 1968, Maserati formed an alliance with France's Citro?n and Italy's Fiat to produce the Citro?n SM, but the SM caused a financial disaster that left the company in great financial difficulties. It wasn't until 1975, when De Tomaso injected 38% of its capital into Maserati and the Italian government injected the remaining 62%, that Maserati was finally able to get out of its predicament.
Italy's domestic automotive industry was also in the doldrums at the time, although annual production exceeded one million vehicles in 1963, making it the world's sixth-largest automotive producer at the time, and reached a peak of 1,957,994 vehicles in 1973. However, due to the world energy crisis and the increasingly fierce competition in the international automobile market, in the late seventies and early eighties worldwide economic recession, the automobile industry market recession, production declined, to 1983 annual production of only 1, 433, 086 units.
In this climate, Maserati's sales began to grow exponentially in 1983 as a result of the launch of the Twin Turbo model, so in 1984 the company planned to produce 9,000 Twin Turbo models and 1,000 425s, but this did not happen due to a variety of reasons, including the cost of capital.
Then in the nineties, in order to re-enter the ranks of the world's automotive powerhouse, the Italian government called on the domestic automobile companies to develop new products, improve the level of automation, reduce costs and strengthen the competitiveness of the international market. And advocate the automobile industry within the use of cross-company and even transnational joint management, the purpose is to centralize the production capacity of industrial vehicles and resources, mutual exchange of production technology, complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. Improve the production level, reduce costs and improve competitiveness. After 50 years of competition, Maserati was incorporated into Ferrari in 1997, and these two classic brands constitute the only supercar group in the automotive world today.