05 Coupe

Here's the story as I know it...Car was purchased from The Collection in south Florida...in service date was 11.18.05. First owner kept it a whopping 500 yes, that is five hundred miles and approximately ten months,I think. The second owner was in California and took over ownership in the summer of 2006. Newport Beach Maserati took it off his hands at Christmas 2006 after he had it less than six months and drove it 579 miles... I bought it after flying out and driving it and several other maserati coupes,spyders and Q-portes. I ran the odometer up to 3300 miles between February and October 2007. If I thought I was bad having two BMW sevens,a 911S,and the Maser coupe, the guy who had the coupe before me had two Astons,two ferraris,and the 05coupe along with an 05 red spyder!!! He supposedly got rid of the masers to help pay for a new airplane.Tough life... Back to the car...CC tranny, Skyhook suspension,briarwood steering wheel(matches sella leather), $3500 worth of stereo upgrades done by Custom Car Stereo on SW Fwy in Houston,hands free bluetooth telephone system,wired for radar detector, nav system, and an assortment of Maserati goodies that add up to just under 100,000 dollars on the sticker. The only issue that car had while I owned it was the A/C. It made noise when I bought it(the salesman blamed it on not being driven enough). When I took it in for it's yearly service (as soon as I took possession) I told the service manager about the noise, he listened, and ordered me a new blower motor and later that week a new compressor. Voila!! No more funny noise...But over the course of the summer, my A/C has on occasion quit working, made a beeping noise while working(like the noise it makes when in reverse) and has shown an occasional "E" in the place where the outside temp shows on the instrument panel. The service mgr has offered the following:Radio upgrade installer did a sloppy job and left an A/C wire loose (first time); Faulty external temp sensor (second time). You tell me on the third time because it still occasionally beeped at me and sometimes refused to blow air when I sold it. What the heck, it still has two more years left on the warranty for them to figure it out. The guys are nice and the girls are pretty at the Houston dealer,it's just on the wrong side of town for me.
There should be a package of info and paperwork as well as all the stock speakers and the stock trunk upholstery which was removed and replaced to accomodate the amp and subwoofer.
One more thing,the car had custom straightpipes when I first drove it...EHL I think (from Phoenix). They were so loud I made a deal to trade them to the dealer for a new set of stock mufflers. (Dealer installed them) The upgrade performance exhaust makes me think maybe they tweaked something else,because this car is seriously fast. (0-100 in under 11 seconds if I remember the one time I drove it over the speed limit..ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!
The only scratch on this car was put there by me (idiot) rolling backwards down an incline and bumping into the car behind me (1 MPH ) while adjusting the bass on my new sound system. Her license plate screws left their mark in my bumper. I am still PO'd. Dealer said live with it or pay $2000 to repaint the entire bumper. I'm thinking Italian flag bumper sticker,but not my problem any more. I will always miss this car, but I must say I could care less about selling the Porsche. I guess a car with soul vs a mechanical wonder, I'll go with the soul. By the way, want to sell your Grandsport??? How about just taking me for a ride when my neck gets better?? Doctor Jim