1989 Maserati Karif

" While the Karif does hark back to great days, it is still in keeping with the new philosophy, this car does not compete with any Ferrari model, even though it will be priced closely to the GTB. It is a car that can be used every day, and can be driven in a city with ease; you cannot say that about any Ferrari. Of course the car looks quite normal, it's international.An enormous amount of effort and time has gone into the Karif developing the engine, which is quite different, developing the suspension, into developing the final drive, there's been a long wait but we wanted something unique" Alessandro de Tomaso, launch in April 1988 at the Geneva Motor Show.

"The Karif, can accelerate with the sort of alacrity of a Porsche 911 Turbo, yet looks almost as discreet as a Ford Escort, it easily matches the performance of the Ferrari 328 GTB" (Car magazine April 1988).

During this time, Fiat were the majority shareholders and restricted production to just 200 examples, with 25 right hand drive. The Karif offered here is Number 9 and it presents very well. This is a very rare opportunity to acquire a future classic. Values of the unwieldy Maserati Shamal have tripled in the last year, and most of these rarer Maserati's are in private collections or have been acquired by museums.

"B3 PGP", was first registered on the 19 December 1989. The car has spent several years in a museum and enjoys; a full service history, supporting receipts from Maserati experts, photographic evidence of work and previous MoT's supporting low mileage of just 39,000.