Word: maseratis
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...ceremony, charged with the kind of sensuality only a true aficionado would appreciate, occurs almost daily. A customer takes delivery of his brand-new Quattroporte (four-door) sedan at the Maserati factory in Modena, Italy. Watched by some of the 600 workers who hand-crafted every centimeter of its swashbuckling lines and muscular engine, he opens the door. The rich aroma of glove leather escapes into the air as he slides into the welcoming embrace of a bucket seat. The moment for which he has spent upwards of $40,000 and waited more than a year has arrived. He switches...
...coax another year out of the heap in the driveway, but there are still customers aplenty for the expensive, high-precision toys known in the automotive trade as exotic cars. Most of the buyers are men in their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing up to buy Aston Martin...
...considerable confusion as to Amin's whereabouts. Earlier in the week the self-styled Conqueror had displayed his ample, 300-lb. presence, bedecked in a blue air marshal's uniform and ribbons, in different parts of Jinja. Driving around the city in his favorite Citroën-Maserati, and followed by a fleet of Mercedes-borne aides, he alternately threatened his dispirited troops with execution and pleaded with them to withstand the "exhausted" enemy. Late Friday, Amin's voice came over Radio
Like many fashionable Italians, Alessandro De Tomaso, owner of the Maserati car company, carries an elegant man's handbag dangling from a shoulder strap. But his bag is unusual in one respect. By slipping his hand through an open flap on the side, De Tomaso can quickly grab a .38 revolver that he keeps cradled inside. Says he: "It is just a normal hazard of business life in Italy today...
...close friends off the field and dominant on it. Tight End Russ Francis brought to the team a free spirit and a Hawaiian hex for use against opponents when he arrived as a first-round draft pick last year. Francis owns his own Beechcraft and zips around in a Maserati when he is not punishing linebackers or breaking into the clear for key receptions. "The car is almost as fast as the plane," Francis says nonchalantly. At 6 ft. 6 in., 240 Ibs., Francis still can sprint 40 yds. in 4.6 sec.-fast enough to make him a Maserati among...