2000 Maserati 3200 GT

Today, this RHD auto 3200 GT has 53,260 miles on the odometer.

On the occasion of its 2013 MoT, a decade ago, the figure was 43,898.

The car is metallic grey with tan leather.

Not only has this car been used sparingly, it’s also had eye-watering amounts of money spent on it courtesy of the vendor, who bought it in 2020, and legendary Maserati whisperers McGrath, who spent £22K of the vendor’s money servicing, sorting, fettling and tweaking this car into the best possible version of itself.

The vendor is selling because he hasn’t used the car as much as he would have liked and has now got his eye on another classic car.

The car has been twiddling its automotive thumbs in a lock-up for 6 months, but it was recently given a condition check (along with an MoT) by Autofarm who, not unreasonably for a dedicated Porsche specialist, gave it a clean bill of health but advised that the car should be looked at and serviced by a Maserati specialist.

We have driven the car and can report that it feels properly screwed together and is every bit as lively as these cars were intended to be from new.

It also goes around corners properly and feels balanced, poised and responsive on twisty country lanes and dual carriageways alike.

Basically, it’s a car that gives you year 2000 supercar performance from a subtle and classy four-seater.

One thing we did notice is that the throttle response seems very sensitive and that the engine has a tendency to hunt up and down the rev range when in neutral or park.

These are known issues with the 3200 model and, consequently, there are well-trodden and proven paths to resolving them.

The bodywork is really very good and there are no dents, creases or dinks of real significance in evidence.

There is a shallow indentation on the ‘nose’ of the car, which doesn’t fit entirely flush with the surrounding bodywork on the nearside.

There is a little nascent blistering and bubbling to the trim beneath both wing mirrors, plus some scuffed trim on the nearside ‘A’ pillar.

There is a paint chip on top of the o/s/f wing near the rear of the bonnet.

The paintwork is decent all round and there’s plenty of shine and lustre left in the metallic grey finish.

Yes, there are one or one or two stone chips here and a few light scratches there, but no more than are commensurate with the car’s age and use.

The wheels, too, are good, and boast a set of matching tyres.

With the exception of a short section of missing rubber from around the o/s/r window, most of the trim and other exterior fixtures and fittings are all in fine fettle.

The interior is very impressive indeed and, aside from one or two rather minor issues, its condition is much more a reflection of the car’s low mileage than its years of service.

The tan leather upholstery is in exemplary condition, both front and back, and the seats have barely earned themselves even the lightest patina.

The seats are supportive, comfortable and, as far as we can ascertain, entirely functional.

The carpets and headlining are very good.

While the controls and switches appear to have escaped the dreaded Maranello ‘sticky button’ syndrome, the same can’t be said of the section of steering wheel column immediately behind the wheel. Thankfully, there’s no reason whatsoever why you should ever feel the need to get your hands on it.

The plastic material on the face of the steering wheel boss, while not sticky, is a little rippled and undulating in appearance.

The door cards are in good nick, save for a small patch of visible glue or mastic at the top, rear edge of the driver’s door card.

We didn’t press every button, flick every switch or pull every toggle, but everything we managed to press, flick and pull worked as intended.

The boot looks good but we did notice what appears to be a bit of cut-away carpeting at the rear, top section. This might have been made to accommodate some now missing piece of electronic gadgetry.

Or not. We don’t know.

The main bonnet release pull has downed tools and is refusing to do its job. This is a slightly futile protest, as these cars have a secondary mechanism for releasing the bonnet.

The underside of the bonnet has a little bubbling in evidence.

The engine and engine bay look clean, dry and ready for action.

The undersides of the car appear to have plenty of structural integrity.

At the time of writing we are awaiting the arrival of some more history documents as the vendor has been overseas and unable to physically access them.

We’re assured that these will come to us in the next couple of weeks or so.

What we have at the moment are various bills, receipts and invoices for work carried out by various specialists and, vitally, pages of exhaustively documented work carried out on practically every bit of the car by the revered experts at McGrath Maserati.

You can view these in the documents section.

This is a very impressive, low mileage example of a thoroughbred GT car.

It goes and handles as well as it looks and cossets.

We think it’s just a couple of small jobs away from being one of the best out there.

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