Maserati Grecale Trofeo

Scope of this guide

This guide is scoped to the petrol Maserati Grecale Trofeo, the five-door performance SUV that Maserati unveiled on 22 March 2022 and builds at its Cassino plant in Italy. It has the 3.0L twin-turbo V6 petrol engine, an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox and all-wheel drive. It is not a guide to the cheaper Grecale GT and Modena, which use a 2.0 litre turbocharged four-cylinder mild hybrid, and it is not a guide to the Grecale Folgore, which is a separate electric car with two motors and a 105 kWh battery. An advert that says only "Maserati Grecale" can describe any of these, so confirm the badge, the engine and the build record before you read any further.

We have not driven this model for this article. Everything below comes from three cited sources: Motor1 Italia's guide to the Grecale engines, PistonHeads' review of the Trofeo, and the government recall checker. We also read several other pages, listed in our working notes, and where they disagree with each other we say so instead of choosing quietly. Every page was read through a text-extraction tool and none was checked against a printed brochure. Maserati's own website returned an access error when we tried it, so we did not use it and did not try to work around it.

The figures at a glance

The engine is the 3.0L twin-turbo V6 petrol unit, 2,992 cc, a wet-sump version of the Nettuno V6 that Maserati developed for the MC20 supercar. Motor1 Italia gives the bore as 88 mm and says it keeps Maserati Twin Combustion, a passive pre-chamber ignition system with two spark plugs per cylinder, and that one bank can switch off at low load to save fuel. PistonHeads calls it a wet-sump version of the MC20's engine and says the Trofeo matches the 530 hp of the earlier V8 Trofeo models.

Power is quoted as 530 CV or 530 PS, which is the metric horsepower. Converting it (530 multiplied by 0.9863) gives 523 bhp, or about 390 kW. That is the figure we use. PistonHeads prints 530hp without saying which unit, and one South African press item converts it to 525 hp, so a listing may show 523, 525 or 530 for the same engine. The peak comes at 6,500 rpm according to Motor1 Italia, although one reference work gives 6,200 rpm, and we have not resolved that difference. Torque is 620 Nm, which is about 457 lb ft, available between 3,000 and 5,500 rpm.

Maserati's claimed 0-100 km/h time is 3.8 seconds, which PistonHeads prints as 0-62 mph. Because 62 mph is 99.8 km/h, we treat the two as the same claim, not a measured result. The top speed is 285 km/h, or 177 mph. PistonHeads lists a weight of 2,027 kg, official fuel economy of 25.2 mpg and CO2 of 254 g/km, and its own mixed-drive test average over 170 miles was 21 mpg. One reference work gives 1,870 kg for the Grecale in general, so a lighter figure may describe a lower model. We have not quoted prices, because they depend on market, options and condition and we could not verify them.

What the Trofeo adds over the other Grecales

Motor1 Italia's table makes the gap plain. The GT has 300 CV, 450 Nm, 5.6 seconds to 100 km/h and 240 km/h, and the Modena has 330 CV, 450 Nm and 5.3 seconds. The Trofeo has 530 CV, 620 Nm, 3.8 seconds and 285 km/h, and Motor1 Italia lists a different gearbox variant for it, the ZF 8HP75 Gen 2 against the 8HP50 in the four-cylinder cars. All the petrol cars use all-wheel drive. The Folgore, which Maserati announced for 2023, is listed there with 544 CV (400 kW) and 800 Nm, while a reference work gives 558 PS, 410 kW and 820 Nm. Neither set of numbers applies to a petrol Trofeo.

According to PistonHeads, the Trofeo has double-wishbone front suspension, a multi-link rear axle, an electronic limited-slip differential at the rear, Brembo brakes and standard air suspension, and its test car ran 21-inch wheels. The drive modes it mentions are GT, Sport and Corsa, and Corsa switches the stability control off. A Trofeo is therefore a different machine from a Modena, and checking which one you are looking at matters.

How it drives, according to the press

PistonHeads' Matt Bird, writing on 9 May 2023, praised the engine as an absolute ripper, with sharp throttle response and a willingness to keep pulling beyond 7,000 rpm. He found the ZF gearbox well matched, with closely spaced ratios and good paddles, but disliked several successive shifts in a row. He described the ride as slightly slow to react and inconsistent over bumps. We cannot confirm any of this from our own experience, and one reviewer's impressions of one car, on one set of wheels and in one suspension setting, are not a guarantee about every Trofeo.

What to check before you buy

Our own checklist comes from reasoning about the car and not from a source. Start with the paperwork: ask an authorised Maserati dealer to confirm the model and engine from the VIN and build record, because the cheaper variants look similar and have a different engine, output and gearbox variant. Look for the Trofeo wing badge on the front wing and confirm that the engine bay and the paperwork both show the V6.

Then look at the hardware. A car that weighs about two tonnes and makes 523 bhp works its tyres and brakes hard, so check the date codes and wear on all four tyres, which should match, and the condition of the discs and pads. Because air suspension is standard, the car should sit level from cold and should not settle with one corner lower overnight. Cycle through the ride heights and the GT, Sport and Corsa modes and look for warning lights. Check that the reversing camera image appears immediately and that the driver-assistance features behave normally. Ask for a diagnostic scan that covers the gearbox, differential, suspension, brake and stability-control modules, and confirm that every software update has been applied.

On a car with the wet-sump engine, check the oil level and the service record, and ask when the last oil and filter service was done. A hard-driven car may have brought forward its service intervals, and a record kept by a Maserati dealer or a Maserati specialist is worth more than a generic stamp. Ask about warranty status as well: a South African press release of April 2025 describes a Maserati extended warranty of up to five years from registration and an Extra10 transmission cover of ten years, but terms vary by market and by registration date, so get the actual terms for the car in front of you.

Recalls and paperwork

Use the government recall checker before you buy and again after you buy, with the registration number, or the manufacturer, model and year of manufacture if the car has no UK registration. The page covers safety recalls that have not been checked or fixed, and says the manufacturer will contact you about non-safety recalls. We have not run the checker for any specific car. A US recall that Maserati numbered 761 covers 1,602 Grecale cars built from 5 May 2022 to 1 December 2023, because a software fault in a parking-assist module can stop the reversing camera image from appearing. We read it on a US news site that does not name the trims, and found no UK notice, so ask a dealer whether it, or any other campaign, applies to the chassis number. We also saw other recall reports in search summaries only, and we have not relied on them. A clean result on a public checker is not proof that every update has been done.

The ownership case

The Grecale Trofeo offers 523 bhp, 620 Nm available from 3,000 rpm, all-wheel drive, a claimed 3.8 seconds to 100 km/h and a 285 km/h top speed in a five-door body. What you are buying is the MC20-derived V6 in a practical car, and the value of that rests on a verified model, a complete service history, working air suspension and a clean electronic scan. We have not driven it, so read the sources, get a specialist inspection, and treat every published performance figure as a claim until someone measures it.