How Bad Could This $9,650 Maserati Ghibli Be, Exactly?

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Back successful 2014, Maserati revived nan Ghibli name to springiness america a smaller, little costly replacement to nan Quattroporte. The caller Ghibli sounded awesome and looked beautiful good, but that's besides astir wherever nan praise stopped, particularly erstwhile you considered nan guidelines exemplary costs astir $70,000. Adjusting for inflation, that would beryllium much than $95,000 today. If there's 1 point you tin count connected pinch a Maserati, though, it's monolithic depreciation, and nan caller Ghibli was decidedly nary exception. 

In fact, accelerated guardant to today, and you tin prime up 1 of those utilized Ghiblis for scarily small money. Dangerously small money, even. I mean, here's a 2015 Ghibli successful Naperville, Illinois, listed for $9,650. It does person astir 100,000 miles connected it, but nan title is allegedly clean, and it's still a Maserati pinch a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6. When it was new, it was overpriced and uncompetitive, but for little than $10,000? How bad could it really be? Certainly not worse than nan photos nan trader posted.

I mean, don't get maine wrong, I cognize it would person problems. Consumer Reports doesn't person a reliability people for nan Ghibli, presumably because anyone who subscribes to Consumer Reports is already excessively smart to walk their hard-earned money connected a brand-new Maserati, but I don't deliberation I don't deliberation I'm going retired excessively acold connected a limb present to propose nan Ghibli is astir apt a batch little reliable than a Lexus GS F (a car you might beryllium capable to find for little than $50,000 if you're lucky). On nan different hand, nan $40,000 you'd prevention buying nan Ghibli complete nan GS F would salary for a full batch of repairs and replacement tires. 

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I want to beryllium clear here, I person nary volition of buying this Ghibli. One day, I'd emotion to bargain a car successful a different authorities and thrust it home, but I decidedly won't beryllium doing that astatine slightest until I get backmost to nan mainland, and erstwhile it does happen, it decidedly won't beryllium a Ghibli. But, I mean, that's still a heck of a batch of car for little than $10,000. Or rather, it's a batch of exhaust note. 

From nan subpar interior (and that's putting it lightly) to nan mini backmost seat, each nan things reviewers didn't for illustration astir nan Ghibli erstwhile it was caller are still going to beryllium there. But surely you could put up pinch that successful a $10,000 Maserati acold easier than you could backmost erstwhile these things were caller and (allegedly) trading for $70,000 aliases more, right? Just really bad could this decade-old, heavy depreciated Maserati Ghibli be?

I mean, it's not for illustration we're talking astir a Maserati from nan '80s. It's astatine slightest nominally a existent car built by a existent automaker. It couldn't be that costly to support connected nan roadworthy if you did immoderate of nan activity yourself, right? Heck, you mightiness moreover beryllium capable to thrust it until it dies, ne'er hole thing and get astatine slightest 2 years retired of it. And really galore group walk much than $10,000 connected a lease they past springiness backmost aft 2 aliases 3 years? How galore group bargain cars that suffer much than $10,000 successful worth aft a fewer years? 

Clearly, nan only action present is for 1 of you to bargain it and study back. It's a small risky, sure, but isn't that what you person disposable income for? And while everyone present assumes it'll beryllium a disaster, wouldn't it consciousness awesome to beryllium capable to beryllium to nan world that nan sub-$10,000 Maserati Ghibli was really amended to ain than everyone expected?