{"id":6067,"date":"2009-05-12T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2009-05-12T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:52:08","slug":"spy-shots-maserati-hardtop-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2009\/05\/spy-shots-maserati-hardtop-convertible\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: Maserati Hardtop Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lift the camouflage and you'd see the bones of Maserati's first-ever hardtop convertible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the words of our photographer:<\/p>\n

Maserati’s most exciting car at present – the GT – will soon be given a beautiful sister, and she’ll be walking around topless at times: Spotted at the German N\u00fcrburgring earlier today was this prototype of a Maserati Spider.<\/p>\n

Judging from the heavy camouflaged packed onto the car and in par with the brand-new Ferrari California, we reckon the Spider will be given a retractable metal roof rather than a conventional canvas top. Competitors like the Aston Martin DBS, on the other hand, will not follow this trend and will soon come with a traditional soft top. A Porsche 911 Cabrio, too, will never be built with anything but a canvas roof.<\/p>\n

Different from the new GT Spider’s predecessor, the new model will apparently come as a 2+2- rather than a pure 2-seater. Engine and mechanics of the Maserati Spider won’t change compared to the coupe. We expect the cabriolet to debut at the 2009 Geneva Show.<\/p>\n

More pictures available at <\/a>www.leftlanenews.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Brenda Priddy & Company<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maserati’s striking GT will soon get a new sibling, and if this spy shot reveals anything, the coupe will also be offered with a hardtop convertible option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}