The Finance World Magazine| Edition: March 2023

Wheels
Maserati MC20 Cielo
Cielo. It means “sky” in Italian.
Such is the lyrical beauty of
the Italian language, Maserati
didn’t need to think beyond
the prosaic to come up with a greatsounding
name for the convertible
version of its mid-engine supercar: the
2023 MC20 Cielo. It’s worked before:
This is, remember, the company that
calls its four-door sedan, simply, the
Quattroporte. Plain old English “Four
Door” somehow doesn’t conjure the
same romantic elegance.
Not that the MC20 needs any more
romance. In coupé form, Maserati’s
first mid-engine supercar in decades
is a beguiling machine, a confident
and capable car powered by one of the
most charismatic high-performance V-6
engines of the modern era—an engine
designed and engineered in-house at
Maserati. It’s not quite a Ferrari 296GTB
and not quite a Lamborghini Huracán,
but something all its own: a sports
car with a soupçon of grand turismo
evident in the mix that makes it as easy
and comfortable to drive every day as
a C8 Corvette.
The MC20 Coupé and Cielo are both
powered by a twin-turbocharged V-6
engine that pumps out 621 hp. Called
Nettuno, the engine utilizes a unique
twin-combustion system borrowed from
Formula 1 race cars and is paired with
an eight-speed automatic transmission.
Its 207.6 horsepower per litre makes
it more power-dense than any engine
from other high-end supercar makers
like Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren,
or Porsche. In our testing, the MC20
needed just 3.2 seconds to reach 60
mph and shot through the quarter-mile
in 11.0 seconds at 131 mph.
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