2024-10-25
26 分钟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.
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.