Maserati Levante review: Heritage with added hench

When you think Maserati, you probably think if its thoroughbred Italian racing heritage, the glamour and slick sports car lines. You might not think about it in beefier SUV form, but that’s exactly what you get in the new Maserati Levante: it’s heritage with added hench.

The Levante is plenty strong enough to eat up the Cotswolds – as we found out in our first drive of the car, slipping through the mud during a particularly sodden period in the UK – but also controlled enough to eat up the Italian alps for dessert – with slush, ice and all – as we found out on a later trip to explore its on-road and on-ice capabilities.

Good job the Levante delivers the company’s Q4 all-wheel-drive setup: the computer-guided system that’s clever enough to transfer power distribution to any wheel in just 100-milliseconds for precision response. Indeed, we had no spinning on the ice – something we’ve managed more than a few times before in tricksier rear-wheel drive roadsters (yes, Toyota GT86, we’re looking at you).

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