SilverSteel

A "pig". Wow! That's rough. Considering the write-ups and its capabilities. It's no Porsche, but don't laugh if it blows by your 04S with a stupid blonde at the wheel with a sh*t eatin' grin. The car can move, and move very fast.

Riad

Guess I drove a defective one... no way a Maserati is blowing by a 997, especially if it's the 997 S.

The car is numbing to drive, and visibility is terrible at best, if I won it at a carnival I would sell it before sitting in it.

Rob

tstafford

Wow, that bad huh? Have you driven a 360?

I'm also interested by the comments that it's difficult to get the full capabilities of the 977. I would have said that much more about the 360. I feel like I get much more out of the P-car than the Ferrari. (Largely due to my personal worry fact, I believe.)

Riad

I have driven the 360 - totally different animal, I would own one in a heartbeat.

tstafford

Interesting. I would have thought a GranSport would have been closer to the Ferrari than that. The 360 is an animal! I honestly don't miss driving it, but I kind of miss having it . . .

Larry Harris

I owned a 2004 Masser and it was at least equal to my 997, except maybe faster, and a whole lot more fun to drive. Build quality was second to none and the dealer experience was excellent. The only thing I took issue with was the F1 shifter. It was fine at speed but kinda scary during city driving, and especially backing up. WIsh I still had it, but I saw this black GT3... .

Don't knock the car just because you once drove one....buy one as your daily driver. Great car!!!

Riad

I drove it for quite a while, not just a 5 min drive around the block or a test drive.

Vancouver83LTD

Drive them both, at the end of the day it's your money and the simple fact is that opinions are like ******** - everyone has one. Only you can decide, and it's not something you can really research.

Porky

I love the Maserati and had a good test drive in the GranSport. Beautiful car - BUT, I am so used to 911's I didn't like the way it handled. I still love the Maser but ended up with a new 997. Best advice, is to test drive both! For at least an hour each!

SilverSteel

Lots of hot air around here. I love my 997S over any M and any F. I'm very confident the M would blow a stock 04 S away handily. It would not beat a 997S, nor did I say it would. Like your carnival comment,...good one.

IKE_JR

Well, this is my first post here.
First of all I think you should drive both cars. I'm just writting here because I realize just a few here have driven a Maserati. Here in my home, we're sports cars fanatic. We have a Maserati 4200GT with F1 gerabox, a F360SPIDER (also F1) and we have now a P987S. I know a lot about FERRARI's and MASERATI's, we used to have 2 Ferrari's(F355GTS-F550Maranello) and 1 Maserati's (3200GT) before. We bought our first P-CAR this year, I know it's not a 997, but this 987S made us fall totally in love with P-CARS (my next car maybe will be a 997GT3).

Let me tell WHAT "I" think about MASERATI, it's a wonderful car, very very fun to drive, very very fast, very elegant car, not slowly or a "PIG" like someone here post (I think he didnt drive enough to know the car). I think the old generation of MASERATI (3200GT V8biturbo) were much faster than the 4200GT, but the 4200 is much more usable than the 3200GT.
I have some friends who owns 997S and all of them are in love with their cars, I can say that the 997S it's a car that everybody likes, Maserati's are cars that Ferrari's owner buy to use everyday and think they are driving a Ferrari, BUT it's completely different. I'm 100% sure that I would enjoy much more a 997S than a MASERATI 4200GT.

I think that's all.

Hope I could help.
See ya

Riad

My C4S Cab gets blown away by kids in Civics If it was a Tip it would be the heaviest of the 996 line up (I think heavier than the 996tt Cab... but the tt has a much better hp:weight ratio). My car is plenty fast to get me in trouble, but I didn't buy it to track it so for me it's the best of both worlds.

However, the question was between the Maserati and the 997, now I really don't think the M is the same animal as the 997, and like we both agree, the 997S is just awesome.

The car lacked soul, I felt very removed from the experience even after driving the car for a few hours (friend of mine switched cars and went for a long drive - he wishes he hadn't) he also owns several Ferrari's and I just love them, but the Spyder didn't really do anything for me.

However, I'm really wanted to drive the Quattroporte for a family sports car, that car looks very nice - perhaps just what Porsche would like in the Panorama.

Well, I'm glad we are the lucky few who get to argue over such things.

Rob

Speedraser

For what it's worth, the motoring press seems to prefer the Maserati Coupe over the Spyder by a very large margin. A drive in a Spyder may not give a valid impression of the Coupe's dynamics.

STATMAN

I have to agree. The styling on the Maserati is so damn bland and boring--give me a break. The perfromance is obviously second-best to the 997S. Reliabiltiy is clearly worse than the p-car. So, it looks like crap, isn't as fast, and breaks down. I think I'll take the 997S.

1AS

Do you work for a living,or did you inherit money, or make it in giant increments? If you actually work for each dollar, Ferrari and Masrerati are moving away as realistic purchases, as off-warranty expense will not be sustainable. $10,000 clutches vs $2,000 will be the dealbreaker.
What does it matter how much fun each one is, if you can only afford to keep one running?
Porsche and Corvette are the only cars in their performance league that are accessible to the guy who actually is a working grunt. AS