Maserati 228

The Maserati 228 is a two-door, five-seat coupe of the Biturbo family that Maserati of Italy built from 1986 to 1992. A prototype was shown on 14 December 1984 for the company's 70th anniversary, with twin overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder and a single carburettor, but the production car shown at the Turin motor show in 1986 had a single camshaft, three valves per cylinder and fuel injection, which is why it is also known as the 228i. Pierangelo Andreani drew the body, which resembled the Biturbo but was larger, and the car was built on a widened floor of the Biturbo 425 saloon. Its engine was a 2.8 litre V6 of 2,790 cc with two water-cooled IHI turbochargers, giving 250 CV without and 225 CV with a catalytic converter, and it drove the rear wheels. Aimed mainly at foreign buyers, since Italy taxed engines above two litres at 38 percent, only 469 were built, and 50 unsold cars were scrapped in 1994.