The history of Maserati
Maserati is an Italian car brand; it has been producing cars since 1914 from its Bologna factory. Maserati headquarters are now based in Modena, still in Italy. Since 1993 Maserati has been wholly owned by the Fiat Group, and is part of the sports car group which includes Alfa Romeo.
It all begun with the Maserati brothers, Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, and Ernesto who were all involved with cars and automobiles from the beginning of the 20th century. The brothers started off making 2.0 litre race cars, but in 1926 Diatto suspended the production of race cars, leading to the creation of the first Maserati and the founding of the Maserati marque.
Alfieri Maserati died in 1932, the three other brothers, Bindo, Ernesto and Ettore, kept the firm going, building cars that won races. In 1937, the remaining Maserati brothers sold their shares in the company to the Adolfo Orsi family. The three brothers continued in engineering roles with the company.
After 1957 Maserati had retired from factory racing participation because of the Guidizzolo tragedy during the 1957 Mille Miglia, though they continued to build cars for privateers. After 1957, Maserati became more and more focused on road cars.
Maserati was taken over by the French car manufacturer, Citroen in 1968. Citroen launched new Maserati models and put them into mass production.
In 1975 Maserati was taken over by Alessandro de Tomaso, who was an Argentinian former racing driver, who became managing director of the brand. Finally in 1993 the company was acquired by Fiat. Substantial investments were made in Maserati by Fiat, and it has since undergone something of a renaissance and now we have many new and used Maserati models on the market.
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