Litany of likely problems down the road:
- Tendency to have logic modules do funny things based on battery undervoltage;
- Trunk opening mechanism goes south;
- Suspension has ball joints on front A arms and I believe on the rear suspension components. Not individually replaceable. They wear out quickly;
- Tends to really eat rear tires and brakes; a lot of weight bias on the back suspension;
- Engine has an oil pressure accumulator in the vee... and that is used for the cam phase variators. They go out;
- Cam phase variators on intake cams... wear out. They have a factory fix... but it is 'real expensive. Auto Trans cars are the worst... All cars after 2007 are A/T;
- ZF 6 speed trans... apparently very reliable;
- When Maserati started to fit A/T into the cars... in 2007 - they found that the 4.2 litre engine was smallish... and weak for the bottom end torque. 4.7 litre cars would be better;
- Many, many logic modules;
- All of the A/T cars are wet sump... and I think the water pumps, then, are NOT integral to the oil pumps. This should be checked. The combo oil pump / water pump is $;
- Interior switches go "gummy" like the Ferrari's. Ugly mess;
- Steering wheel top-of-column tends to develop a gaping mouth, versus the centre of the wheel;
- The leather on the B pillar trim gets "barked" by the seat belt metal piece; same with the rear seat console corners;
- Piping on the leather seats - I believe, fashioned out of leather, gets rubbed by seatbelts and worn-through;
- Generally the interiors are very, very delicate;
- Most cars have the Skyhook automatic shocks... $$$ to fix;
- Very expensive to keep on the road;
- The ZF Automatic cars are not as engaging as the automated-manual cars (DuoSelect), i.e. 2005 thru mid 2007 for the latter... but the Duo Select are really expensive to keep on the road;
- Duoselect cars can have very, very short clutch life.