Maserati: Neptune's Trident, a 1957 Racing Exit and the Biturbo Gamble

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Maserati's Trident logo was drawn by Mario Maserati, the one brother who became an artist, after the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. His brothers Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto began by building two-liter Grand Prix cars for Diatto, and when Diatto quit racing in 1926 they built their own Tipo 26, which Alfieri drove to a class win at that year's Targa Florio. Alfieri died in 1932, and in 1937 the remaining brothers sold to industrialist Adolfo Orsi, who moved the company to Modena. Maserati won the Indianapolis 500 in 1939 and 1940, attempted a V16 town car for Mussolini during the war, and won the 1957 Formula One title with Juan Manuel Fangio.

After a Ferrari crash at the 1957 Mille Miglia killed the driver, co-driver and 10 spectators, Maserati quit factory racing and built the 3500 GT road car. Citroën bought the company in 1968, then went bankrupt, and in May 1975 its new French management announced Maserati's liquidation. The Italian government and Alejandro de Tomaso saved it, and the Biturbo sold about 40,000 units. Fiat took control in 1993 and handed half to Ferrari in 1997, leading to the 3200 GT and MC12. Sales topped 51,000 in 2017 but were projected at about 7,900 in 2025 during the shift to electric cars.

The founding family owned the company for only its first 11 years, though the brothers stayed on as engineers for a decade.
Maserati remains the only Italian brand to win the Indianapolis 500 back to back.
The Shah of Persia had Maserati fit a racing V8 into a bespoke road car, the 5000 GT.
Workers picketed the Modena factory in 1975 to stop the assembly lines from being dismantled.
The Biturbo was the world's first production car with a twin-turbocharged V6.

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