Miracle of Modena: Maserati aims for revival after COVID devastation | BevanShields
Six months ago Modena was a ghost town; an eerie early warning about the coronavirus pandemic's brutal capacity to devastate economies and unleash a tidal wave of death.
The crisis also had the makings of an existential threat to Italy's luxury car makers - most of which are headquartered in the north and rely on a healthy workforce, humming global economy and uninterrupted supply chains to do business. Italy's industrial powerhouse was effectively switched off overnight in early March when Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte imposed a regional lockdown and then a nationwide shutdown just a few days later.Today, though, Modena is staging a comeback.
"It marks a period of recovery and it really shows the resilience of our brothers and sisters in Italy given what they have been able to get through this year." Production and design resumed in the European spring, including at Maserati where more than two years of work had gone into the MC20 before the abrupt halt postponed a planned reveal in May.In a break from recent history, the MC20's new engine - a 630 horsepower V6 which delivers a zero to 100 kilometre-an-hour speed within 2.9 seconds - is made entirely in Modena at its rebuilt Viale Ciro Menotti plant.
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