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Fast luxury - a successor to the first Maserati Quattroporte by Pietro Frua

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Created on August 27, 2018

Reading time 8min

Written by:

Stefan Dierkes

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Michael Ward - Courtesy RM/Sotheby's

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Michael Ward - Courtesy RM/Sotheby's

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - grosse Fensterflächen, leichtfüssiges Design

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - sehr übersichtlich zu fahren

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - mit genügend Kraft zum Überholen

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Ähnlichkeiten mit Monteverdi-Limousinen sind nicht ganz von der Hand zu weisen

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - geschmackvoll gestylte Limousine

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - mit "bösem Blick" bereits vor 45 Jahren

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - die Rückleuchten stammen aus dem Grossserienregal

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Heckansicht

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - einer der schönsten Frua-Entwürfe überhaupt

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - geschmackvoll eingerichtetes Interieur

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Lenkrad mit Pralltopf im Stil der Zeit

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Veglia-Rundinstrumente

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - der V8-Motor

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - schön gebauter V8-motor

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Chassis-Plakette

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Klappen über den Doppelscheinwerfern

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Aluräder wie beim Ghibli

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Maserati Quattroporte II (1974) - Heckleuchte von Fiat?

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Maserati Quattroporte Frua (1971) - ging so nie in Serie, ein Einzelstück für Aga Khan mit leicht abweichender Gestaltung wurde gebaut, Design von Pietro Frua

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Maserati Quattroporte Frua (1971) - als Quattroporte 'Aga Khan' gebaut, Design von Pietro Frua

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - Tonmodell

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Maserati Quattroporte Frua am Genfer Automobilsalon 1972 - wesentlich formreiner als die bereits jahrelang gebaute italienische Limousine ist die gezeigte Version von Piero Frua

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Maserati Quattroporte (1969) - Amaturenbrett des von Frua gestalteten ersten Quattroporte

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - fertiges Ausstellungsmodell

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - das fertige Fahrzeug

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - Cockpit im Jahr 1972 aufgenommen

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - Interieur, aufgenommen 1972

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - Detail im Jahr 1973 aufgenommen

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Maserati Quattroporte (1971) - gezeigt an einem Concours in Spanien

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Maserati Quattroporte Prototipo Pietro Frua (1971) - als Lot 210 an der RM/Sotheby's Versteigerung von Monterey am 19./20. August 2016

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Maserati Quattroporte Prototipo Pietro Frua (1971) - als Lot 210 an der RM/Sotheby's Versteigerung von Monterey am 19./20. August 2016

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Maserati Quattroporte Prototipo Pietro Frua (1971) - als Lot 210 an der RM/Sotheby's Versteigerung von Monterey am 19./20. August 2016

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Maserati Quattroporte (1964) - die erste Serie der von Pietro Frua gezeichneten Limousine wies Rechteckscheinwerfer auf

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Summary

The Maserati Quattroporte, which Pietro Frua built as a prototype for the manufacturer in 1971, can be considered one of his most elegant limousine designs. Aga Khan liked the car so much that he ordered his own, which is why two vehicles with the same special body were built by hand. Both survived, and some of them were even owned by the same person. But is there a mysterious third example? This report describes the history and circumstances surrounding the construction of the Maserati Quattroporte in the early seventies and shows the two well-known cars in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

A new saloon
First series (Tipo 107)
Frua's proposal for the second series (Tipo 121)
The second Frua Quattroporte for the Aga Khan
The prototype has survived
Both cars temporarily with the same owner
Was there a third vehicle?
Further information

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

At the beginning of the seventies, Pietro Frua, aged 57, had actually already reached the peak of his third career. As design director of the largest Italian bodywork factory Stabilimenti Farina in the 1930s, as owner of his own carrozzeria with an output of up to 180 bodies per year in the 1950s and with his mass-produced designs for the Lower Bavarian manufacturer Glas and Maserati in Italy in the 1960s, he had achieved everything he could as a creative lone wolf. The contracts with his two biggest customers had expired in the following years after the takeover of Glas by BMW in 1967 and of Maserati by Citroën in 1968. But he remained tireless and tried to keep up with the design zeitgeist and compete with designers of the younger generation such as Marcello Gandini and Giorgio Giugiaro.

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