{"id":474668,"date":"2010-03-25T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2010-03-25T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:55:03","slug":"2011-maserati-granturismo-convertible-%e2%80%93-first-drive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474668","title":{"rendered":"2011 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible \u2013 First Drive Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q1\/2011_maserati_granturismo_convertible-first_drive_review\/gallery\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17622\" title=\"2011 Maserati GranTurismo convertible\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2011-Maserati-GranTurismo-convertible-placement-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Maserati GranTurismo convertible\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Italian antidote to the German same-olds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to be able to tell you that the new Maser\u00adati GranTurismo convertible is great with the top up or down, but we can only confirm the former. Our test drive, originating in Rome, coincided with the heaviest snowstorm that city has seen since 1986. We sat in our hotel, looking out at the flakes accumulating on the Fiat Cinquecentos and Smart Fortwos that crammed themselves onto both sides of the black-pavered streets like impacted molars. Maserati\u2019s PR chief paced nervously. He knows the destruction journalists are capable of\u2009 in dry weather, and there was no way he was letting us out in his $139,700 droptops on Pirelli summer tires in that kind of meteoro\u00adlogical dandruff.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17621\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q1\/2011_maserati_granturismo_convertible-first_drive_review\" >2011 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible &#8211; First Drive Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2009-maserati-granturismo-s-first-drive-review\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2009 Maserati GranTurismo S &#8211; First Drive Review'>2009 Maserati GranTurismo S &#8211; First Drive Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/maserati-grancabrio-re-dubbed-granturismo-convertible-for-u-s\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Maserati GranCabrio Re-Dubbed GranTurismo Convertible for U.S.'>Maserati GranCabrio Re-Dubbed GranTurismo Convertible for U.S.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/maserati-granturismo-convertible-priced-at-140200\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Maserati GranTurismo Convertible Priced at $140,200'>Maserati GranTurismo Convertible Priced at $140,200<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian antidote to the German same-olds. We\u2019d like to be able to tell you that the new Maser\u00adati GranTurismo convertible is great with the top up or down, but we can only confirm the former. Our test drive, originating in Rome, coincided with the heaviest snowstorm that city has seen since 1986. We sat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}