I'm not usually someone who recommends buying a car that looks like it was pimped out using parts from the Pep Boys "krome" aisle...but what if that car had a Ferrari V8 and a 6-speed manual gearbox? And at $10k this car should be worth it for the engine alone...but I dunno. Find this 2002 Maserati GT Coupé offered for $10,000 in Campbell, CA via craigslist. Tip from Matthew.
I know that Italian week is over..yeah...it was a long and glorious week of cars from the country that brought us the first newspapers, modern plumbing, aqueducts, Roman numerals, the centrifugal pump, the barometer, dentures, the hyper search engine (that helped google do the things it did to take over the world...errr..web), Nutella, the typewriter...do I need to go on? Let's finish Italian week with one more piece of glorious thin ready to rust sheet metal and an engine that is ahead of Alec Baldwin in terms of the number of times per week that it blows up. Find this 1985 Maserati Biturbo offered for $6,500 in Topeka, KS via craigslist.
Tipper Erik202 may have launched Italian Week on DT, but Matt C really brought home a strong finish with the earlier Maser Coupe and then this next thing. In Matt's words: Or, want a Maserati badge on something even cheaper, that you can fix with K-car parts from your nearest junkyard? If you can live with it being mistaken for a LeBaron, and aren't like me and think the LeBaron was actually the better styling exercise, here you go: Find this 1991 Chrysler TC by Maserati offered for $3900 in Marietta, GA via craigslist.
Italian Week continues on DT: This next car comes as a tip from Matt C who writes: I was actually looking for a Biturbo as I figured that it would be in the DT price range... and instead I found a much better looking Maserati that probably will be way less expensive to maintain: A 2002 Coupe GT for just $16000! Or just one thoroughly worn out, 200,000 mile E36 chassis M3 more than the "Alpha Romero" I emailed earlier this week. Find this 2002 Maserati Coupe offered for $16000 in Atlanta, GA via craigslist.
If one Maserati BiTurbo is the sign of an eccentric car collector, then two Maserati BiTurbos must be the sign of something else. No...not mental illness..more like...the sign of a pragmatic eccentric car collector. A hobbyist...nah...a hoarder...maybe...a connoisseur...YES? Find these 1986 Maserati BiTurbo 425 sedans offered for $2000 in Nawth Joy-zee via craigslist. From Cory.
Today's Thursday Twister comes from Erik202 who writes: I had an idea for a Thursday Twister, maybe this one has already been done but i was wondering what the most fantastically unreliable car you can get in the DT price range is. Or maybe the most unreliable car you've owned, IDK, basically the opposite of discussing volvos and roadmasters and cars that will give you half a million miles without trouble...
What kind of car would you drive if you had life by the balls? How about a sexy red Italian convertible with a fancy sounding manu-matic transmission? You can be on top of the world one day and just as easily crash back to earth the next. We have just that type of story here with this 2003 Maserati Spyder in Newtown, CT for $11,000 via craigslist. 
What a wonderful time to be alive. Recent advancements in the fields of basic hygiene, sanitation, and medicine means that survival past the age of 10 is very common, but that isn't jack in comparison to the incredible level of automobile you can get for a small price. Find this 2005 Maserati Quattroporte offered for $17,900 in Houston, TX via craigslist. Tip from Jeff.
A while back we discussed the current market for high end cars and the amount of depreciation currently dogging some of these models. The Porsche 996 is a good example, albeit it has somewhat of a bad reputation with the IMS bearing failure and all. Enter the Italian version of an exotic car in spiraling free fall status. Find this 2002 Maserati Coupe Cambiocorsa for sale in San Francisco, CA for $19,000 OBO via craigslist.
Well...we asked for it, & DT readers delivered. The Cadillac Allanté featured on Saturday generated a rash of comments and a reader tip about an estranged brethren. Who would have guessed there could be two different cross-bred Italian/American convertibles sold the same year...in red no less?? Fancy the pair? Find this 1991 Chrysler TC Convertible here on eBay in Lake Huntington, NY with a $2500 starting reserve & 4 days to go. Tip from Hugh.
Living with a Maserati Biturbo is to us in this small circle of obscure cars as carving your own blowfish is to amateur home chefs; something your primal instincts tell you to try but your friends and better judgement both say ‘no’. On paper, how could two turbos on a multivalve Italian V6 in a relatively light, rear drive chassis possibly go wrong? And then, sitting Indian-style on the side of the road in the rain, head in your hands as the fire department is hosing down the last of the smoldering, molten copper and plastic, you mumble aloud “fine…they were right”. Let’s let the others learn that lesson for us while we buy small-block-Ford swapped examples like this 1987 Maserati Biturbo Spyder on L.A. craigslist for $3,000.
Mention the name BiTurbo around a Maserati lover and listen carefully. If he (or a she...it could happen) rave about how great the car is, he probably owns one, but if he moan/groan about mechanical meltdowns, he probably sold it already. Yes, the twin turbo V6 under the hood wasn't a paradigm of reliability...in fact you could probably say it was about as reliable as gas station sushi...And that is what makes this next BiTurbo so captivating -- keep the Pierangelo Andreani (with heavy influence from Giugiaro's Quattroporte III) styling but add a quiet and planet saving electric drivetrain. This 1985 Maserati BiTurbo EV is offered for $35,000 or best offer in the Orange County area, CA -- email: gregg.wheelerdealer@gmail.com for more details or to make an offer.
This week's Thursday Twister, comes from DT reader Barbpaddles who suggested we look for cars that feature a single spoke steering wheel. I like this idea as it makes arcane knowledge about cars just a little bit less useless. 
Maserati had been building a big four door sedan named the Quattroporte for decades before Ferrari acquired a 50% stake in the company in 1997. However, the new cars wouldn't share much in common with the boxy Marcello Gandini designed cars from the 70s and 90s (or the Georgette Giugiaro designed cars from the 80s), but instead rode on a M139 platform shared with the GranTurismo and Alfa Romeo 8C with styling by Pininfarina. The new Masers put an emphasis on performance with single auto clutch gearboxes and screaming Ferrari V8 power. Find this 2006 Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S offered for $13,900 in SF Bay Area, CA via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck.
The Giorgetto Giugiaro designed Maserati Quattroporte was built on a chassis closely related to the Maserati Kyalami, which was derived from the De Tomaso Longchamp and the Tom Tjaarda designed De Tomaso Deauville. It was powered by a few crazy complex Maser V8s which cost a fortune when the fail, so today's example seem very interesting. Find this 1982 Maserati Quattroporte here on eBay
bidding for $8,099 reserve-not-met located in Monterey, CA with 3 days to go.
Maserati first used the name Quattroporte (literally four doors) in 1963 on the Pietro Frua designed masterpiece, but the name continued (and continues) to be used on 4-door luxury sedans from the Italian car builder. The 3rd generation was built during the Alejandro de Tomaso reign at Maserati from 1979 through 1990 with styling coming from a guy named Giorgetto Giugiaro. Find this 1980 Maserati Quattroporte offered for $8000 in Manhattan, NY (or get it with 2 more running/driving QPs for $10k). Tip from Cory.