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Tim Robson
Contributing Journalist
10 Feb 2017
8 min read

Tim Robson road and track tests the new Maserati Levante SUV, with specs, fuel consumption and verdict at its Australian launch north of Sydney.

It's been a long time coming, but Italian luxury car maker Maserati has finally landed its first high-riding wagon ever, the Levante SUV.

The phenomenon of premium grade utility vehicles isn't at all new; after all, Range Rover pioneered the genre in the 1970s. It's bit more odd, though, when a self-professed purveyor of sports and grand touring machines does it, as Porsche found out when it launched the company-saving Cayenne in the early 2000s.

And Maserati could have been right there alongside Porsche, debuting the Kubang concept all the way back in 2003, and following it up again in 2011. Instead, the company tore up the 2011 plans to base its premium SUV on a Jeep platform and started again.

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