Stillborn Maserati Project Rekall restomod donor car found on facebook group – Magneto

A Maserati Ghibli II that is believed to have been the donor car behind the 2020 Project Rekall restomod proposal, has been found for sale on a Facebook group. The car was put together by Garage Italia, the company founded by Lapo Elkann, the great-grandson of Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli – and board member of Ferrari and head of promotion for the Fiat Group. Project Rekall was revealed on Maserati’s now-defunct Fuoriserie Instagram account as a modern take on the Shamal (pictured above). The car used key elements of the Shamal’s look – the wide box ‘arches, the windscreen spoiler, the B-pillar and more – while the interior used a similar architecture with digital instruments and bucket seats. The Fuoriserie account encouraged social media users to “join the resistance, make the hard choices together and we’ll see it through to the end”. There were no details on whether the project would use an original Shamal and its 326bhp 3.2-litre twin-turbocharged V8, but look closely and the roofline more closely resembles that of the contemporary Ghibli II, which was powered by either a 2.0- or 2.8-litre twin-turbocharged V6 with around 280-330bhp, although the project did hint at a manual gearbox. However
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