{"id":38324,"date":"2015-01-09T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=38324"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:37:08","slug":"maserati-karif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/maserati-karif\/","title":{"rendered":"Maserati Karif"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have to love Maserati<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Their old naming protocol, anyway. Take the Karif, for example.<\/p>\n

According to the webs the car was named after the wind which blows South West across the Gulf of Aden at Berbera, Somalia.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t get much more obscure than that.<\/p>\n

And cars don’t get as obtusely interesting (and rare) that Masser’s short lived 2+2 coup\u00e9. And the thing could shift, as well as possessing the glamour or rarity.<\/p>\n

Under the hood was the powerful biturbo engine (below), a double blown V6 2.8 unit that could crank out close to 300 hp.<\/p>\n

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We can’t help thinking that there’s real value in rarity in itself. There have not been many 2+2 ‘notchbacks’ ever produced, anywhere – and in the end only a couple of hundred Karifs were sold before production ceased in the early nineties.<\/p>\n

It’s Friday, we’re in love.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t