Maserati MC20 2022 UK review

A GT, then? It could be. It has a boot at the back, which gets a bit warm but is the size you would find in, say, the Corvette or the Lotus Elise, and a small cubby at the front. So the MC20 is, by mid-engined supercar standards, rather practical.

It’s also rather comfortable. I really like the way it goes down the road. In the UK, GT mode with the softer damper setting is usually fine.

Our test came in early January, so the 20in wheels were shod with 245/35 and 305/30 winter tyres, which often makes for a duller ride and almost always for less steering precision. But if the ride is nicer and steering sharper on conventional tyres, this will be ever more athletic. There are breathsto the way it moves, with never a shudder, never a thump, just a finely poised dynamism like the best of them. It’s comfortable, but also it feels ready for changes of direction. Those are hugely enjoyable too.

It turns with great engagement and enjoyment. The steering is relatively light and quick, at 2.2 turns between locks – not as fast or hyperactive as in a Ferrari and not as feelsome as in a McLaren but well measured and geared and not unlike, I would say, the Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA’s. Which is absolutely no bad thing.

Which returns me to that long back story. Word had it that the MC20 was going to be an Alfa Romeo, and whether that’s true or not, it’s the latest iteration of Alfa Romeo sports saloon, the Giulia GTA, to which it dawned on me that the MC20 feels most closely related dynamically. Normally there would be scope for disappointment at a mid-engined supercar feeling most like a saloon, but remember how special the Giulia GTA is. This feels a little like that but unburdened: keener and lower, with its masses precisely where you would want them and fewer of them.