The Ghibli nameplate first appeared on a Maserati grand touring coupe unveiled in 1966 and delivered for the 1967 model year. That original car, styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro, established the name as one of Maserati’s most recognized badges: a low, dramatic front-engined GT that became an icon of the marque’s late-1960s design era. Production of the first Ghibli continued through 1973, after which the nameplate disappeared for nearly two decades.
Maserati revived the name in 1992 for a very different car built on the Biturbo family’s underpinnings. This second Ghibli was a compact, turbocharged two-door coupe aimed at a more modern performance market and ran through 1998, including later special versions such as the Ghibli GT and Ghibli Cup. That made the nameplate a recurring link between different chapters of Maserati’s history rather than a single continuous lineage.
The third and most recent Ghibli arrived in 2013 as a luxury sports sedan, expanding the name from a classic coupe into Maserati’s mainstream four-door performance offering. It helped define the brand’s modern era by blending everyday usability with the character expected of a Maserati grand tourer. Over time it was offered in multiple forms, including hybrid and high-performance V8 variants, before Maserati marked the end of the V8 era with the Ghibli 334 Ultima. With production ending and the final cars being sold off, this latest generation closed the model’s story as a trilogy of distinct production periods spanning more than half a century.