Get your Italian car fashion fix today with the video of the Maserati GranCabrio Fendi. The model was presented at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show and is basically an excuse to unite two Italian brands - Maserati and Fendi - in a fashion car mix. The GranCabrio keeps its 4.7-litre V8 engine with 440 hp but gets a new Fendi trim.

The GranCabrio Fendi edition gets a special three-layer paint in iridescent gold, 19-inch Trident Design wheels and Fendi logos on the door sills and upholstery, with the Maserati logo at times featured in yellow. Standing out in particular are the Fendi yellow brake callipers. See how it evolved in the Fendi Maserati making of video.

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While the new Maserati SUV might be what we’re all interested in from Maserati at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, it won’t the only thing the trident brand brings to its stand. Taking things a notch further from the Fiat 500 Gucci is this Maserati GranCabrio Fendi special edition model created in collaboration with Silvia Venturini Fendi.

The new Maserati Fendi model has a triple coat of paint in an iridescent gold effect called Grigio Fiamma Dorato or grey flame gold. It gets matched to Fendi’s traditional yellow as an interior trim, while we get timber inserts in the car around the dash and door panelling.

That yellow Fendi touch adorns the brake callipers and the trident badge embroidered onto the head rests. The seats have double stitching with the Fendi logo and the leather seat trim also features on the dash, gearstick and floor mats. 19-inch Trident Design wheels are included, there is Fendi writing on the door sills and finally there is a Fendi and Maserati integrated badge with the serial number, too.

Maserati GranCabrio Fendi fashion special edition

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These lovely Maserati GranCabrio Sport new pics show the sporty little cabriolet just in time for summer, after it first debuted at the last Geneva Motor Show. The GranCabrio Sport is based on the GranTurismo and is an important update in the Maserati lineup.

It’s equipped with a 4.7-litre V8 engine with 450 hp and 510 Nm of torque, and ZF transmission with MC Auto Shift software. Different from the standard GranCabrio, the Sport version has an aerodynamic kit and 20-inch wheels, along with the exclusive Rosso Trionfale tone, designed to celebrate the historic victories fo Juan Manuel Fangio with the 250F. The Maserati GranCabrio Sport price is about 141,000 euros.

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We’ll probably upset a few people here, but Maserati does gorgeous better than any other Italian car manufacturer. Okay, you’ve got your supercars and your sports cars but the Tridente badge manages sporty elegance unlike any other. In this video we get to see the full 2011 Maserati line-up. Models shown off are the Maserati GranTurismo, Gran Cabrio, GranTurismo MC Stradale and the Quattroporte.

If you had a bad Easter, this will cheer you up - the MC Stradale is particularly adept at a little car dreaming on a Tuesday. The Maserati GranCabrio also has us looking to summer and thinking about how we’d enjoy the “bella stagione” even more if only we had this kind of car. The Quattroporte, although an Italian motoring icon, is the only model looking a bit long in the tooth and needs a restyling, Baby Quattroporte making an appearance or not.

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The Indian car market will have access to one of the best in Italian luxury car brands when the first Indian Maserati showroom opens in 2011. Another dealership will follow in New Delhi in 2012 and expansion across seven major Indian cities will occur by 2015.

You can get no better recognition of a rising upper-middle class and a country’s economy than when someone like Maserati opens its doors. The Indian car market has been growing again, with 1.87 million sales in 2010, and annual growth measuring 25 percent. They are incredible figures as they are, but those of the luxury car market in India are even more surprising - it registered an increase of 70 percent in 2010 alone.

Maserati is forecasting Indian sales to be about 80 percent for the Quattroporte and 20 percent for the GranTurismo and GranCabrio models. Mumbai and New Delhi are set to be the biggest markets, with the former having a share of 35 percent and the latter 40 percent of Maserati sales.

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