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"In the &amp;#039;70s, Maserati built a front-wheel-drive Quattroporte with a V6. (It was a Citro\u00EBn. Blame the French.) Back in Italian hands, Maserati has now created the first all-wheel-drive QP\u2014the first all-wheel-drive Maserati, in fact. It also comes with a V6. No need to get upset with the Italians, though.  This small-displacement engine gets help from two turbos, and it sounds amazing while doing so. The 3.0-liter puts out 410 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque\u2014more power than the new twin-turbo 3.0-liter from Mercedes (329 hp) or Ford&amp;#039;s EcoBoost 3.5-liter (365 hp), and the same as Cadillac&amp;#039;s new twin-turbo 3.6. And the Quattroporte S Q4 will hit 60 mph in a claimed 4.9 seconds. Cylinder count: officially irrelevant.   The new 60-degree six shares its architecture (but not its vee angle) with Maserati&amp;#039;s new V8, which also gets a pair of turbos. And regardless of drivetrain, Maserati makes sure to preserve the Quattroporte&amp;#039;s beloved 50/50 weight distribution.  Maserati engineers say they dial in the car&amp;#039;s chassis, making sure it&amp;#039;s neutral and naturally balanced, before adding the nanny systems (stability and traction control) on top. They&amp;#039;re not there to correct for inadequacies other than the driver&amp;#039;s. This became evident when we did a lap at Fiat&amp;#039;s Balocco test track with everything on and then again with everything off. Even when you push it, the car doesn&amp;#039;t want to get out of line, thanks in part to the Q4 all-wheel-drive system. It&amp;#039;s nothing terribly sophisticated, only shuttling torque fore and aft, but it gets the job done. We suspect also that most of the AWD system&amp;#039;s job will get done in the showroom. Point is, it doesn&amp;#039;t get in the way, and it only adds about 130 pounds to the car.  Put the ZF eight-speed automatic in Manual Sport mode, click off a downshift, and you&amp;#039;ll hear what they call a &amp;quot;controlled misfire,&amp;quot; a snap-crackle-burble-boom from the tailpipes. Appropriate coming from a country that specializes in organized chaos.  The transmission and chassis have lots of modes, but it&amp;#039;s hard to see the buttons that control them while you&amp;#039;re driving, and hard to read them when you get a chance to look down. That said, once you figure out the car, you&amp;#039;ll make your selection before setting off, and it will undoubtedly include pressing the Sport button. Unless you have no soul.   Even though the latest Quattroporte is larger in every dimension, closer in size to long-wheelbase versions of its competition, it still drives small. Except when you&amp;#039;re on tiny European roads. Then you find yourself worrying about the mirrors. But that won&amp;#039;t be a problem in the States, so forget we even mentioned it. More pasta?  And if you still don&amp;#039;t like the idea of an all-wheel-drive, V6 Quattroporte, you can go for the V8 instead. It comes with old-fashioned rear-wheel drive, and it sounds pretty spectacular, too. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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