{"id":448355,"date":"2010-03-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/19\/fernando-alonso-gets-himself-a-maserati-grancabrio\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:00:00","slug":"fernando-alonso-gets-himself-a-maserati-grancabrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448355","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso gets himself a Maserati GranCabrio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Motorsports<\/a>, Convertible<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Maserati<\/a>, Celebrities<\/a>, Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso with his new Maserati GranCabrio – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nWhat do Formula One drivers drive in their downtime? Well, when you’re a two-time world champion like Fernando Alonso, you get to drive pretty much whatever you want. That is, assuming the team you’re driving for isn’t owned by a specific automaker. Then you’ll need to drive whatever the provide you with. And in Alonso’s case, notwithstanding his solo 2001 debut season with Minardi-Cosworth, he’s pretty much only driven for automaker-owned teams: Renault<\/a>, McLaren-Mercedes<\/a>, then back to Renault and now Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While at Renault, Alonso drove a Megane RS<\/a> that was later offered for sale on eBay. When he moved to McLaren, he got his finely-honed hands on an SLR 722<\/a>. Now that he’s at Ferrari, you’d expect him to be driving a new 458 Italia<\/a> or a 599 GTB Fiorano, right? Almost, but not quite.<\/p>\n

Ferrari’s sister company Maserati<\/a> has announced that Alonso has acquired a new GranCabrio – to be sold Stateside as the GranTurismo<\/a> Convertible, lest we be confused. The Spanish driver – who’s already off to a great start, having won his first race with the team to which everyone said he always belonged – picked one out in (very) dark gray with a two-tone beige and bordeaux interior with a matching canvas roof. And if you think about it, his selection makes sense: if you’re driving a high-strung performance machine for work, wouldn’t you want to unwind in something a little more relaxed? Press release after the jump, photos in the galleries below.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Fernando Alonso’s Maserati GranCabrio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gallery: Maserati GranCabrio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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