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There are some car company names that fill the spirit with enthusiasm and joy. Italian manufacturer, Maserati, is but
one of the handful. This is a car company that possesses a glorious history. Its origins lie in the combined efforts
of the Maserati brothers. Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, Ernesto and Mario were the enterprising family members, who
found themselves being drawn inexorably to an involvement somewhere around the car making business. Although founded
in 1914, the first Maserati motorcars appeared in 1926. In fact, Alfieri, who died in 1932, raced in one of his own
cars and won the infamous Targa Florio in its inaugural year of production. In 1937, the remaining members of the
family sold their interests in the business to the Orsi family, which relocated its headquarters to Modena in 1940,
where it remains today, in that heartland of Italian design, engineering and automotive expertise. Many of the
company's remarkable race victories with its most fantastic ranges of race and road cars were delivered during this
period, with the famous Argentinian driver, Juan Manuel Fangio at the controls. It was indeed Maserati's glory period.
However, slightly strapped for cash and with a perceived need to make the company grow, the Orsi family sold its
interests out to Citroen and the French carmaker, keen to introduce many of its advanced technological ideas to
Maserati, ploughed funds into the Italian specialist. Unfortunately, the 1973 oil crisis struck, Citroen went bankrupt
and the new controlling group, PSA Peugeot Citroen, also declared that Maserati was bust. The Italian government
stepped in as a holding operation until early 1975, when De Tomaso bought it. He survived with the firm until 1993,
when Fiat took control of the company. Just four years later, in an internal change of ownership, a 50% stake was sold
to Ferrari, Maserati's long-time rival, which was also owned by Fiat Group. Since the demise of the Fiat-GM
partnership, Fiat has found itself in 100% ownership of Maserati all over again. What is it they say about what goes
around, comes around?
