Gran Turismo Folgore: A Lucca Roadtrip

Gran Turismo Folgore:卢卡公路之旅

Monocle on Culture

社会与文化

2024-10-25

26 分钟
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As this special episode pauses to consider elements of great design, it is important to not overcomplicate matters. Sometimes, all you need is four wheels and a beating heart. Monocle’s Italian odyssey concludes with a second roadtrip in another of Maserati’s powerful new all-electric sports cars: the Gran Turismo Folgore. Joining us for the ride are Maserati’s head of design, Klaus Busse, and food writer Luca Cesari. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • When you think of great design, you think of elements coming together.

  • A periodic table of excellence amalgamating in a physical form.

  • It could be architecture, furniture or food.

  • And we'll address all of those in due course.

  • After all, we're in Italy.

  • So, yes, those elements, but also something even more emotive.

  • Four wheels and a beating heart.

  • We are in Italy, after all.

  • You're listening to a special episode of Monocle on Culture that we've made to celebrate our partner for this current season.

  • Maserati.

  • The beloved Italian marque has produced two new all powerful all electric sports cars, the Gran Cabrio and Gran Turismo Folgore.

  • Last month, we explored the sunny highways and byways of northern Italy in the soft top Gran Cabrio.

  • Today, we climb into the Gran Turismo.

  • The Gran Turismo is so respected out there because our engineers and moderna just always find, generation by generation, a way to further improve the handling of the car, to be up there with the best.

  • The Gran Turismo propels us on the second half of our elemental adventures through Italy, this time in a circuit from Maserati's Modena, we're headed into Tuscany and to Lucca for ancient walls and the sort of city civility that shows off the Gran Turismo Folgore's fine manners.

  • That pur an electronic update, sure, in every inch audibly, a Maserati.

  • The front end is all intent.

  • The bonnet swoops like a vigorous form in nature over large, lively headlamps.

  • The grille has a playful sense of entitlement.

  • It's been inherited, after all, but also reimagined, sculpted for an electric future where air cooling is less longed for by the engine than the brakes.