2022 Maserati MC20 Review // The $250,000 Supermodel

Good morning, uh, oh, okay, seriously, I came here just to do some yoga with the ocean and you're making fun of me, I think, and that's really rude, so you know what I'm going to leave out because I'm just I wanted some peace and quiet. I'll go, people in this town just think that because they're beautiful they can get away with anything, so do you come here often or are you watching Throttle House? I'm Thomas and I'm James and this is the Maserati.

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is a long-built curlew, it is a coastal bird that sticks its long beak into the sand to grab small crabs and morsels of things.

In fact, I've noticed that the beak has different lengths and curves, which I've been assured has. Anyway, it has absolutely nothing to do with attracting a mate, the point is that it's disappearing due to things like loss of habitat and climate change, you know the usual, so when a brand like Maserati, known for its big engines and racing, was designing a new supercar. They even needed to design it so it could be an electric vehicle and they did, but they also developed a new gasoline engine in an era when manufacturers are ceasing all development of internal combustion engines.

Look, that one has like a four-inch nozzle which is pretty long, so they used f1 pre-chamber combustion technology, which means each cylinder has another little chamber with its own spark plug, so when that chamber fills up On the compression stroke, the spark plug shoots flames into the main combustion. chamber which causes complete combustion of all the vapor, is not a technology often found in a road car and one of the advantages of this is better fuel economy. They say this can generate 9 liters per 100 kilometers on the highway. The other advantage of that technology is that it makes the

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fast 605 horsepower from a three liter v6 2.9 seconds to 60 miles per hour is ridiculous that also means that at least until the new v6 lands ferrari

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has built the most specific power v6 to power a road car other than small feet I will say the car doesn't feel like it was built for that level of power, there is a lack of confidence that feels like it is being torn apart by all that talk, I mean, we're talking serious numbers on the throttle.

The car, especially in sport mode, goes into this kind of harmonic that we've only experienced at very low speeds in a DCT where the foot and the car shake to the point where it just perpetuates itself at low revs and high load. the accelerator is when it starts to interfere and you don't feel as confident, to be honest the other downside of this car is that that six cylinder is quite loud at low revs, it sounds a bit like a broken diesel, however keep it high in the revs. revolutions. and release the accelerator with the window open and you hear some cool turbo sounds.

I feel like I'm in a tough boy focus rs, except the focus rs, although they may share a similar color to this one, it doesn't look like this maserati. teasing us for years with the maserati cage with this kind of shape we are finally finally on a maserati that is as beautiful as the name it represents, just look at it, yes this one has some expensive options such as the ten thousand carbon ceramic Dollars. brakes or that five-thousand-dollar carbon fiber engine cover that together makes it a quarter-million-dollar car, but it's also a quarter-million-dollar mid-engine, rear-drive supercar piece of art. of dollars.

I mean talk about a ride queen who actually rolls down. the boardwalk is something the mc20 does very well the road ride is fantastic the seats are comfortable is also on the list of good things the 8 speed dual clutch transmission is fantastic, fast and aggressive when you want it to be, smooth and refined when you just want to cruise, long story short, it may not sound very good and it may not like its own power, but that engine, James is right, the neutuno engine or the neptune engine, understand it because it holds a pretty good trident, it is a perfect example of modernity. performance engineering more than enough power to make you think someone is sneaking some contraband into your morning coffee and enough efficiency to keep shorebirds happy and, as James said, because of the violent way it pushes its almost 29 psi of boost to the cylinders, the power really feels a little crazy, but nowadays that's not all we're looking for.

It's not incredible power that impresses us most. It's when a manufacturer can make a car fun at any speed. This isn't because, as James mentioned at low speed revs it feels like it's shaking to pieces, I don't know what's going on, but God forbid you put it in sport mode, that's just not possible, you have to. put it in sport mode and set the dampers to soft otherwise it's barely drivable on a road like this and it feels like the suspension can't handle the boost it creates and this is a tub of carbon so the car itself It's incredibly stiff, but I wish they'd put in better shock absorbers or match them. the springs dampers a little better because sometimes it feels like it can barely put down its power and it feels like the front and rear are jumping all over the place like this, the steering is only good when you're really putting weight on it The front end is otherwise too light, so it's clear that the MC20 is a bit of a mixed bag in the handling department;

However, over the course of a couple of days with this car, I discovered that while driving it. faster and you spend more time near the 8,000 rpm redline, the car adapts in its own scary way and you start to feel the suspension, you start to feel the road, I can feel the stiffness in the chassis, oh my god, It's fast, the brake pedal. it has a lot of power but you have to work hard it doesn't have a good bite when you really slow down you can feel how light the car is you can feel the tires doing the work when braking and i was racing here with james who was in a ferrari f8, We were going fast and I was having the best time keeping up with him.

I just started to get this flow, but I had to go very, very fast and the thing is, I was going that fast. In a car like this, what it does is easily scary, sometimes it's unpredictable, the power comes on in strange lumps sometimes and other times it's smooth, sometimes the suspension handles the bumps the way you think they're going to and other times not. but all these things together, there's a really good supercar here, a really good supercar, you just have to look for it, maybe too hard, and all the time you spend looking for it you're just

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ing underwear sets because this thing is scary, it's scary old school supercar and honestly, for all its flaws, I think I really love this thing.

In fact, I love driving it. It's not perfect, but how do I describe it? There are two types of people in the world when it comes to supercars, are you the person who likes the Porsche 911 turbo, which is perfect in every way, fast as hell and incredibly sleazy and refined, or are you the kind of person who really likes the golden era of supercars when they were ridiculous and dangerous and edgy because that's where this fits in I think I know which one I am which one are you ah okay which one are you which one am I yeah I'm james your tongue is Well I just told them I was talking like that it's like an old school super danger crazy supercar are you the type of person that likes that or are you a Porsche 911 person?

I'm a rear wheel drive person Hurricane Eva it's actually normal here screaming v10 don't listen to musical instrument at your fingertips yes yes yes but you can add a 17 thousand dollar paint to a hurricane yes you can of course yes and then this has this paint on it, it's like a metallic sheen that sparkles in the sun, yeah it's actually a little strange because when it's in the shade it looks like a matte paint, yeah, but as soon as the sun hits it you see that It's actually metallic, it's very subtle anyway, listen, I'm glad they exist, it's a completely different flavor than Hurricane and 911, yeah.

I don't want a car to have a seat difference or a little, the pdk is a little. I don't mind the fact that it tastes so different, it means I'm really glad it exists and look at the way I want to say Huracán doesn't. I don't do that, no, very few cars do that, what's the value of that questionable desirability? It's so cool, it's cool, it's got great company, come see it from here, okay, this is essentially Maserati, yeah, you know what I mean, like it has a grill. it has the headlights it has the shape the style of this is cool yes it's perfect I mean it's literally the giant trident I love the giant trident I know you like the talk you like it yes yes and that's okay so this is not the press release this is what the black parts at the bottom say yeah that's for engineering and the arrow okay the rest where the color is is for style literally at some point and a designer told an engineer that this part of the car is for design, you only get to this point to a certain point, that's it, that's all I understand, you know little, you have the air coming in here and going out there and whatever seems original, this is such an Italian style, yes, engineering, but this. the card matches that ratio it feels yes, it's dialed it feels highly prioritized style absolutely yes, but listen, not everything is style there is practicality there is yes there is a frunk there is a frank there is a friend do you want to see this frank yes this has a frank I have a frunk look at this thing no, it's totally it's totally usable this is where you keep the book where else would you keep the book that contains the information on how to trade that's all that's all you have to do?

Understand, that's all the space you have, yes, but it also has a trunk, so there is a trunk, yes, any excuse to open that door again, yes, you have to hold it down for a long time, by the way, why are? Oh geez, there it goes, yeah or it's a double click I don't know, yeah, that's a trunk, you can change your baby in there first thing. I haven't had fatherhood yet when I get there, okay, look how low the engine is, I love it, I love it, it's like that. it's way down and one more thing I want to point out oh yeah this is for a game of tag you grab this and then they lose it's like flag football right?

They seem to be what they were. Reluctantly, they had to follow the regulations, so at the dealership at the last minute they said, "I need you to have time." It's like an overhand knot. It is fun. Anyway, I think this is one of the most beautiful cars on sale right now. we can, we agree on that, yeah, it's awesome, it's even avenged here, it's got the Maserati trident symbol on there, what do you mean this is a trident bush like these, these holes, oh yeah, that's really cool , it has a purpose even like the way this camera is integrated, which is the camera for the rear view mirror, yes, it's like it seems like part of the design, no, everything seems intentional, everything is, so first it has a style that I love.

Can we talk about him? inside yeah okay sure you're going we have to open both doors ready to go up at the same time three two one oh hopefully we'll play some kind of sound ah and okay it's easy to get in yeah this is actually the only one car that I don't care, I'm bad at kicking doors, you kick doors just when you're feeling angry, I wear these big, awesome boots, like my death dealer boots, where's the vampire? Don't let the boots wear you down, yeah you kick everything anyway. We're here and from the inside, yeah, I'm going to turn the fan down a little bit here so we get into the comfort, okay, it's here, yeah, you press that and then there's the it's easy to use, I swear, yeah, well. people have pointed out that this is something like I think it's available on fiat base but it works no, this infotainment is great, I wish the climate was like this, they don't have a trident, there's no special engineering, yeah, um, no, like that is. well, the car game is fast, it connects well, I have never had problems with it, the good habitability of the sound system is perfectly usable, I agree, yes, but unlike the exterior, this is not as stylish, no It is a very stylish interior piece. just functional because I guess they just made that decision yeah yeah I kind of agree I think this part down here is kind of a really cool carbon fiber center console here and you get the feeling of being in a supercar because of the wheel well, so your feet are a little bit above it, right, yeah, so it's great that way, the seats are actually very comfortable and there's a lot of headroom, there's a lot of headroom , yes, yes, for the helmet you are going to use. to use on the track when you never track this I'm going to track this I'm going to break it it's a lot of fun today not like that steering wheel of an alfa romeo julia quadrifoglio how is it?

Look at it, it's the same. The same buttons,right, it has, it's a little bit thicker carbon fiber, everything, yeah, this is like this is not a two hundred thousand dollar power interior, this feels like the C8 in some ways, I don't know if I completely agree okay, no, this, just this. Kinda, do I really like this button? This is huge if we hadn't been in a lot of stalantis fca vehicles at this point this would feel like this but since i know these paddles come on a julia base it takes away from the maserati a bit or just thinking about the hurricane i guess the r8 is pretty simple, yeah, okay, okay, they've gotten simple, they have the two.screens this gauge cluster is nice, you know, it does it, it does everything, it gets the job done, it's cool, that's cool and we have this mirror that you can't, you can't see in the back, it's nothing, no, so you get this mirror that's dumb because your eyes are focused on the road and in a normal mirror you would just change that plane of focus to the mirror and You would look behind you, but this you must like refocus your eyes, you have the choice, options, options, options there is no choice yes, they give you that just for fun, I think it's true, so you have to leave it on, no , I think, like you said, it's comfortable, the seats are comfortable, yes, that blends into the ride, there's plenty of room for passengers too.

Yeah listen, I love it here, I think I agree, it's not as special a feeling as a hurricane or whatever, but it's cool and it says mc20 right there with an Italian flag, so what more do you want? Listen, James, the doors are opening. I'm down there, yes, but they're not right. The important thing is that they go up, yes, of course, yes, I think it's great. This is a really cool car. um defective defective very smooth but great yes great but defective is not necessarily a The bad thing is that some of the best things are great but defective.

Look at Batman or Concord or the dinosaurs. Okay, I understand Batman and Concord James, but what about the dinosaurs? The little hands are T-Rex. They can't pick things up, but it's okay anyway. For me, the mc20 was interesting just because of the nature of this week of filming. I ended up putting hundreds of miles on this car and found that every mile I spent with it I learned something new about it, a better way to drive it in a different way. strategy to manage your full power or a different approach on a given curve. It's actually one of the few cars in a long time that I felt like I developed a relationship with in the end.

I was really sad to see him go, but luckily I at least looked at him. rolling is not a difficulty, it is certainly beautiful and it is very fast, but unlike Thomas, for me the mc20 feels like a slightly incomplete task between the too light steering, the disappointing sound and the sometimes awkward power delivery. I can't help but think that it's just not there yet, especially for its price, but hey, it's not alone, the first hurricane needed some love and look at it now, the evo is surprisingly good and costs the same as this one, but the mc20 has the bones to be one of the greats that exist.

I just need to keep working on it until Thomas can drive it and I'm just as happy admiring it from the outside thanks for watching the action James are you coming oh yeah no I don't like it okay how are you?