Just my two cents. I've had the opportunity to take various interior panels off the car in various projects. In a sense, this car is built in a very old- fashioned way. I happen to LOVE that about the car. The amount of hand assembly is impressive, both for good and bad. You will notice that various panels and pieces have little white round stickers on them, which have the name of the employee and the date that aspect of construction was completed; "Luigi, 7/25/02." Very cool, at least to me. I also believe the car behaves in an old-fashioned way as well, in that the car is all drivetrain with a pretty body and pretty interior which act as secondary components to the matter at hand, driving. Our cars are the antithesis of the Lexus-like offerings from the competition. Very little attention has been paid to controlling Noise, Vibration, and Harshness, in the Maserati. THANK GOD! That's what I love about this car, and that's why I say it behaves in an old-fashioned way, like the cars we fell in love with decades ago, but with modern electronics and system management. For me, the best of both worlds. Incidentally, For those having headliner rattle, take some foam strips that they sell for installing window AC units (usually at hardware store, black in color, 2" x 2") and squeeze it in between the top of the rear window and the headliner, so that it is inserted on top of the headliner but still is under some compression. This fixed the squeak/rattle for me.