MPS Driving Distractions Maserati GranCabrio 2011

One hundred eighty milliseconds, less than a bat of the eyelid. That’s all the time needed to deploy in emergencies, heart Maserati GranCabrio security system: an extended rollover protection behind the rear seat. Control Unit air bag seek their help when the car creates a dynamic situation of fear that the car was going backwards. Or when GranCabrio Maserati suffered major side effects or hit rough from behind, stabilizer bars to prevent more damage and can not protect drivers and passengers have a car overturned at a later stage.

Maserati GranCabrio a very, very protective of adults and children alike. Special bar configuration deployment, after people, even if their average height. Provide Isofix special chair holding subsidiaries. And a new generation of air bag systems operating under the current “size” of the people in the car.

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There is no compromise with safety on this car, because there is no compromise, but not significant, will be accepted. Maserati GranCabrio but also has a second task: to be beautiful in every detail. Therefore, the air bag system that is on the passenger side is optimiszing design that aims to display the top of the dashboard and safety devices fit perfectly into the interior design in general.

In short, the total protection and knowledge that will help only 190 milliseconds to reach an emergency. Physical barrier and a large number of electronic security measures stood between drivers and passengers and road hazards.

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Twenty-five degrees Celsius and dehumidify the air is what the experts think is the ideal location for the well-being of people at home, at work or while traveling by car. A clear rule is not cast in stone, remember that each of us has the temperature of our own ideal, and during car trips, using the climate system control board to find it.

In GranCabrio Maserati driver is only necessary to set the desired temperature in a range between 16 and 32 degrees and electronics will start to mix the air and feet with an intensity precision micrometer flow until the goal is reached quickly. Climate control system has been refined to offer maximum comfort with Soft Top top and bottom, adjust accordingly. He knows he must be very different in the afternoon beginning of the summer or on a hot and he is also very well that this should not be too invasive in terms of sound, so the engine can be allowed to sing at the heart content.

State of the navigation system peak is one of many information systems GranCabrio Maserati owner put into service. The interface consists of a 7-inch color display located in the middle of the dashboard that shows the functionality of a CD player, navigation system, radio and onboard computer continuously about Travel and car performance.

Maserati is also GranCabrio firm in terms of IT, the areas where horses gigabytes instead of taking center stage: since the hard disk can contain up to 30 GB and can store up to 180 hours of music that derives directly from CDs or downloaded as mp3 files. You can also use your own player as audio source, connect the USB port in the compartment glove box. The functions most commonly used can be activated by the steering wheel controls, driving to avoid distractions. In addition, an audio system, navigation and telephone systems, if any, may be operated using voice commands: can “talk” to your car to afford maximum safety. Maserati GranCabrio but may also speak: she can read SMS messages and provides information on traffic so there is no need to look even on the screen.

Finally, an iPod connection is available upon request, allowing owners to enjoy your favorite songs with the state of the art Hi-fi system developed by Bose and Maserati, a system where no fewer than 12 speakers to create an atmosphere of concert halls.

The GranCabrio Maserati Interior

Maserati GranCabrio that embodies the essence of Italian expertise, which is rooted in historical workshops of the Renaissance and developed gradually, without neglecting his own noble origins. The chairs are the first thing one appreciates when getting behind the wheel: Poltrona Frau leather, they feel luxurious, of course soft and cozy in winter, cool and fresh in summer. Bound in leather to improve with the passage of time, as a great vintage wine.

Color palette that includes no fewer than 10 colors, which can be mixed for the seat, dashboard, tonneau cover, steering wheel and gear in the infinite number of combinations to create an atmosphere suitable to their own tastes. Each button on the steering wheel and dashboard is decorated with a good chrome surround, which features an elegant undeniable cachet. Trident logo that comes with a hand on the back of the head and stitches in his arm open with a hand-sewn.

More hands have made a valuable forests of pride that takes place in the cabin GranCabrio Maserati. These hands have smoothed the forest with patience, even off the ground and polished a little more for eye-catching result. Carbalho wood from Brazil. Maserati sought in distant countries of origin because it has a mandate replicated: each party has a pattern different kind of footprint that ensures that each car is unique.

And for those who want to customize their cars to the scale of n, two different sets of luggage are available. The first skin elegance filtered set, while the second is made of leather and fabric. The color palette is very broad in this case too, from black to blue, beige and adopted in Testa Moro (first film very dark brown) and will be supplemented each year by a shadow mode Intepreter International: Grigio (gray) Collection 2010. Setting the base consists of two wheels and two vanity cases, a bag is also available designed to be placed on the back seat.

Open-Top Maserati Heritage

The first Maserati GranCabrio is an open top four-seater Maserati, but this does not mean it is without noble ancestors. Instead, the whole chapter in the history of cars have been written by Trident on the open car, even if they are strictly two-seater.

The first is the legendary A6G Frua Spyder, produced in very limited quantities in 1950: it is in the details of the car differ from each other, details which, in a single Frua, rising to the level of a head -d ‘work. To get a better understanding, we should see no more forward with chrome fog lamps and concave few months later, in A6G 2000, will be transformed into an oval grille, typical of the Maserati, with a Trident Grand Center.

The same blood flows in the veins of the mechanical A6G Frua Spyder that glorify car by 3500 GT Spyder Vignale, incomparable source of inspiration for the great Italian coach builders of the 1960s, making the competition for their clothes to respond elegantly wrought by a hand mixer master panel. 3500 GT Spyder is so beautiful that even turning heads in Hollywood: it is used repeatedly in movies for major studios, this “action”, for example, with Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes in The Killers and with Kirk Douglas in two Sunday in another city, in both cases was wearing “costumes” which was signed by Vignale.

The legend continues in the 1960s: by the time a new wind blowing. Who became urgent in 1964 when the Mistral Spyder made its appearance in comparison with the aesthetic rules of his time, almost minimalist, but everyone should have the chance to get a purebred able to grow to 255 km / h. The Mistral winds become the Ghibli and even fascinated Henry Ford II, who has toured with the Detroit Spyder and to all who commented on treason replied: “The Ghibli will disappear from my parking space when you devised a way my beautiful Ford.

When we travel the general ledger Maserati We also met with one of the cars that can be considered a direct descendant of GranCabrio Maserati: Spyder in 2001, the car that the automaker rebirth can be seamlessly connected back legendary names and denominations as A6G 2000 GT, 3500 GT, Mistral and Ghibli. Underestimated, passion and elegance. This is typical of the new Spyder, which is more than just a dream car with great temperament, has the technology to add more prestige Maserati. Transmission, for example, located on the unity of the rear axle a limited slip differential. The effect on performance in a balanced manner, enhanced by a suspension system that automatically adapts to the road, ten times higher than the system used to date.

Maserati GranCabrio: the coupe for the conversion

Usually, when a convertible was developed on the existing platform, side effects are the mean weight of 150 kg compared to the coupe \ sedan. This is caused by the need to compensate for the removal of the structure (roof, closing central pillar) with structural reinforcements are positioned in the lower frame and lower body.

Maserati GranCabrio With this increase in weight has been reduced to thank you for just 100 kg to design optimized low-frame and the body play a structural role. It is not playing, but really, really “downsizing” of treatment. The final solution is obtained through the virtual simulation of the most advanced structural engineering.

Regarding body parts, the dimensions of the frame of the door has increased the structural part of the door changed and added to the function of structure elements which are not generally contribute (eg, storage compartment roof, aerodynamics and basic services of the container).

Under the frame rate, however, the change affects most significant:

* Repeat structures full database to create a wall of twisting behind the rear seat that has a structural function.
* Fill the center of structural development and pillars of the rear and front rails connecting the floor.
* Inclusion in the engine V-Rod reinforcement, two metal bars that connect the shock to the bottom of the dome screen now and gnawing through the body.
* Creating and various housing body in the tightening of reinforcements to improve distribution and allow the installation of units of string tension, giving special attention to combine the functions of weight loss.

The front and rear base fluids also include structural features of thermo-dynamics, thus maintaining the Cx increase under control and provide air to cool the garage. This combination has improved the design of cars such generous dimensions that GranCabrio Maserati, which has a wheelbase of 2942 mm, having values outside the normal dynamic stiffness, the dynamic torque in the configuration of the body white frequency (BIW) of 27.2 Hz and static torsional rigidity of 75,000 Hand and \ rad. These figures are a very fast car in terms of structure and very responsive on the road, providing feedback to the driver very well combined with a high level and had no response to vibration.

Regarding the active protection of passenger cars in question, which sub-frame and the body has been designed to provide the highest possible standards, according to the best of our competitors and with the coupe \ sedan.

To redefine a new geometry of the frame of the door and the side structure of center pillar and the rear of the car, the function has been included, in addition to structure functions, which absorbs and eliminates the energy produced in each impact, This makes the carrier remains almost undeformed.

Special mention must be made that the active system roll-bar was installed at the rear of the body GranCabrio Maserati, although not required by the law and innovative concepts of composite structure (steel and aluminum ), which strengthens the glass surrounding the front so that the occupants are guaranteed survival at the local level should be overturned car.

The complex is an integrated development framework and under the body, which means that the highest level of structure and safety goals can be achieved has been made possible by a systematic development process using simulation and virtual the correlation between the physical (prototype) and the virtual model for a large number of test sessions.

Chassis and weight distribution

Optimize the weight distribution between front and rear so that the center of gravity is positioned at the point of law to ensure maximum stability for the car: it is a key point in the development engineers working GranCabrio Maserati.

In terms of layout, this objective is reflected in continuous improvement and layout of mechanical components of the individual organism. In fact, the engine is placed behind the front axle, and special attention was given to the presentation of the roof system, which weighs heavily on the dynamics for the vehicle. The 6-speed automatic box fitted to the front of the unit with the engine, while the limited slip differential at the rear with a lock assembly level 25% in tension and 45% in the statement that restrict and regulating the drive of each wheel so that the maximum loss of adhesion of the available traction is always provided.

Drive and the transmitted power between the engine / gearbox and differential articulated by the crankshaft with a constant velocity joint center bearing to reduce vibration to a minimum.

The results of such great expertise in design is that 49% of the total weight distributed front and 51% in the back and keep it about the same, even when the roof is folded (48% to 52% before the the back). Figure that reflects a dynamic behavior full advantage of the exceptional driveability, optimum traction in all conditions of the road surface, road holding and cornering, the attainment of stable values of lateral acceleration of over 1g.

In other words, the characters are always embedded in the Maserati DNA.

At the wheel of Maserati GranCabrio

Closer GranCabrio Maserati is a unique experience that never fails to evoke the spirit and passion. Take the wheel of a party really sat in the driver’s seat offers real idea of the car thanks to unite the unimpeded wind typical of a coupe, with both top and bottom.

What is given more importance to the pleasure of driving in outdoors and elegant lines designed by Pininfarina, is marked with the canvas, the design choices related to the Maserati tradition, but also the results of aerodynamic studies. With the roof of the car was revealed in all its beauty, stirring the emotions of drivers, but most of all outside observers regardless of the blessing of generous proportions, see the heart.

Cab, the natural environment for someone who loves driving, remember the Maserati GranTurismo, since the first real large structures and a good driving position with a vertical wheel appointed director, and the presentation of sport which does not deliver a compromise on the comfort.

This car is equipped with a 4.7-liter 8-cylinder – is also available on the GranTurismo S – which provides 323 kilowatts, allowing flexible, comfortable and driveability fluid in normal mode and the reactions of a sportier and responsive in Sport mode. Development has led to targeted interventions focused on mapping the gearbox, engine, gas management and suspension systems that have been building cars with envy GranTurismo performance. All this is the result of technicians, engineers and test pilots involved in project work in synergy. During the test session in a different field proven relevant (Balocco, Vizzola at Nürburgring, Fiorano, but also Sweden and New Zealand) Particular attention is paid to the interaction between the chassis and suspension to ensure that the handling and comfort goals met without reflecting the vehicle chassis.

Maserati GranCabrio make a little overweight, but imperceptibly with that thrilling performance and ease of driving are offered a good weight distribution: 49% on the front axle and 51% at the back. Weight distribution has proved very effective when the car is pushed to its limits and allows the driver to enjoy the always excellent traction, steering response, predictable reactions in the Netherlands / situation oversteer and last but not any passenger car gradual approach, which has always managed to use the rudder and throttle. As this is a car designed for “everyday” use, special attention is paid to the stability of the car and control systems to traction on all types of surfaces, either in small or very low grip conditions (rain, snow and ice) or with handle medium and high (road and the surface normal) provides car balanced agile in the “difficult” conditions, while the absolute peak power is available with a maximum driving safety.

The Maserati GranCabrio Therefore, a car very satisfactory performance, are equally comfortable in daily driving conditions and sports. At the same time comfort is celebrated to ensure it finds its own size, even in the long journey.

Maserati GranCabrio – four proper seats, comfortable, warm and enveloping. Never open the Maserati offered so much. Never before had a car with Trident insignia allowed the entire family or four friends to enjoy the journey in the open air. Unseen Maserati chemistry GranCabrio begins when you see he was amazingly beautiful, with soft top up or down. It features a sophisticated on canvas, for reasons that are appropriate, which may be summarized in three words: “the center of” gravity. Cain, ultra-high-tech fabric, weighs very little, much less than metal and makes the car use: the whole system weighs only 65 kg. And then the clay fabric, it complements the exterior color palette from the car six times the number of available colors from solid black to a high-tech titanium gray with a warm brown color.

Twenty-eight seconds, the time required for Maserati GranCabrio to return to a safe cocoon. A fly also, through the roof Cx of 0.35, which increased only lean 0.39, with the top down.

The design is to ensure comfort. Times when a person traveling in the back of a sports car who resigned to suffer physical discomfort long gone: the rear passengers in the Maserati does not support GranCabrio actor, but co-star on the trip . Feet, even for those over six feet high, is more plush in the spine is no longer forced standing against nature, but comfortable, physiological and folders supported on sportsmanship designed so that no need to compromise on comfort.

The GranCabrio Maserati’s Design

The dynamism, sensuality and passion has always been a creative turn Pininfarina in a work of genius to be admired in the streets around the world. Recent works left the Maserati factory, Maserati GranCabrio, has designed a dream car, but the real work was only requested to amateurs of beautiful cars that want to travel in a cocoon of soft, comfortable atmosphere.

The challenge for Pininfarina is an interesting question: the right has not been four-seater convertible that can seat four adults comfortably fly without the slightest bit of pleasure trip outstanding was produced by Maserati. Now, producers have completed their work, everything seemed clear: GranCabrio Maserati could never like this. An expert eye, however, understand how power is located behind the forehead, beautiful and vibrant at the same time, the twist and hips and the cat in the back who speaks the language of high technology with aerodynamic diffuser tested in wind tunnels, topped by large, oval dual chrome tips.

A statue of experts who spoke the ancient language of Italy large body shops, beautiful car to see when open, but also during movement of the roof, which is not always the case for a car of this type. Soft top is selected from the rigid folding roof, with the closure of complex systems, will apply to engineers and designers is unacceptable obstacle to anyone seeking the beauty in its purest form. So the “all-clear” is given to materials supremequality art and techniques of the state in a structure with a backbone consisting of five fingers of steel and aluminum and ends with three layers of fabric are available in six colors, combining all the needs of the client. The entire system weighs only 65 pounds, but at the same time, ensure maximum efficiency of the Aero-acoustic and allows Maserati GranCabrio to enjoy in all seasons, through the most rigorous tests carried out at 30 degrees below zero and 40 degrees in the shade.

When the hood in place the drag coefficient is 0.35, while the hood to 0.39. Extraordinary number, marks the chemical relationship between aesthetics and functionality. Not to mention the absolute need another, the comfort of their trip opens GranTurismo. The wind stopped optional designed precisely to achieve this objective, to provide protection to passengers very well, even with high speeds. Thus, with the wind stops, the volume of outdoor air decreased by 70%, while the speed of air in the cabin fell by 50%.

Attention is also given to comfort in the details that may appear on the surface as secondary, such as devices, in order, starting the opening cycle soft-top when the key is inserted into the door lock . This means that cars can not be included in the soft top is down and the heat that had built while it was parked in the sun had disappeared. And if the storm threatens to become during the journey, the Maserati GranCabrio reaction time only 28 seconds, the time required to close the hood.

The GranCabrio Maserati’s Voice

Maserati GranCabrio voice, record music from a powerful V8, but overcome while traveling at a modest pace, but they can carry a tenor of high power when the driver requires maximum. Secret of flexibility lies in the pneumatic control valve that handles disposal: they are usually closed, to ensure that car travel within existing policies, but if the Sport mode is selected, they are open to the regime of 3000 and a thundered strong, especially with the roof.

Eight conductor cylinder is a choral singing about driving pleasure, harmony achieved by the 6-speed automatic transmission. This transmission is the result of close collaboration between Maserati and ZF, which has interpreted the interesting combination of 323 kW (440 hp) from a V8 engine and smooth gearbox automatic. And if the driver wants to feel like a conductor, all he has to do is select the manual mode and modulating the engine with the pace of manual transmissions, even better when you use the wheel.

Maserati claims that GranCabrio to be heard, also through the voice of hi-fi system developed by Bose and Maserati. Keeping even the most discerning audiophiles happy is not an easy task: no roof to act as a development space resonance speakers should really rethought. Finally, 12 people equipped with: one in the middle of the dashboard speakers, two tweeters and two woofers assigned to each door, an area of low forward under the front passenger seat, two tweeters and two woofers on both the panel rear and rear-mounted box containing two bass woofers. This is a woofer, speakers reproduce sounds weaker, and provide the appropriate depth to a crescendo of an orchestra or a basic rhythm of jazz trio, the key behind the perfection GranCabrio Room concert. The back of the big box, for example, has an unusual shape, the file back and extending below the arms of the seat back so he can do best.

To avoid lengthy manual settings that can become dangerous driving distractions, the system automatically tweak the volume and distribution of sounds depending on whether the car is traveling with the soft top up or down but the listener do not perceive the difference and the same audio quality in both configurations.

All this is done by AudioPilot System ®, through a small microphone mounted on the dashboard to monitor the level of noise in the cab and adjust the distribution accordingly. This is particularly useful at high speeds, where aerodynamic moves to intensify and to ensure that the sound quality is still good.

All drivers have to do is select the CD of music most suitable for travel and it will GranCabrio Maserati can become the most dynamic of the auditorium.

The Maserati GranCabrio Dynamics An essential function for a similar car fun to drive as much GranCabrio is balance, achieved with a well thought out weight distribution. Trident latest creation unmatched at this level too: the hood up 49% weight on front axle and 51% on the back while gently downwards to 48 and 52% respectively.

In everyday driving these figures changed to conduct a reliable and predictable in all situations, the acceleration of the heart, even on the surface stability irregular, exceptional even in emergency maneuvers. This was achieved by placing the engine is mounted on the unit with an automatic transmission behind the front axle. Drive is transmitted to the wheels with a 2-piece shaft supported by a limited-slip differential (blockage ratio is 25% in tension and 45% in the press).

Took thousands of hours of calculations and a few hours to develop the prototype chassis. This effort is essential to achieve structural rigidity even without the roof.

Skyhook suspension system features shock continuous gas is adjusted to adapt to changing road conditions. In practical terms, this means that each disease is “hiding” the driver, who may then enjoy an experience very good ride comfort true.

But Maserati is also very aware that no two drivers are the same: “Therefore GranCabrio Maserati dynamic performance can be cut to size according to personal preferences, as if it was tailored elegance. Pressing the sports button, within seconds the car shake suspension and the rate of change of speed up the removal of documents become deeper and more aggressive. Then, suddenly, can not return to normal mode with one push of a button, the offering of the people on board all the comforts of the GranTurismo top end.

Keep an eye on road safety is a system of MSP (Maserati Stability Program), which spread the different choice of sensors to detect anomalies in the behavior of the car, a little deviation from the path and driving is ideal driving experience.