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In July 2026, Porsche confirmed the last combustion-engine Macan had rolled off the production line. If you want a compact sporty luxury SUV with a petrol engine, genuinely sporty and genuinely luxurious, there is now exactly one option. This is it. The 2026 Maserati Grecale facelift.
The Maserati Grecale gets a new horizontal line splitting the body into a technical lower half and a beautifully resolved upper half. One hundred years of the Trident badge on the nose. Triple side vents that have been on every Maserati since 1947. An SUV coupe roofline that Sirish Chandran is convinced is better looking than the Macan and better looking than anything else in this class. The Modena spec adds blacked out chrome throughout — grille teeth, window surrounds, mirror caps, quad exhaust tips, Trident badge. It looks sinister and sharp in a way that chrome simply does not.
Under the bonnet is the 3-litre Nettuno twin-turbo V6, the same engine family as the MC20 and Gran Turismo, making 385bhp in Grecale Modena spec. Mounted behind the front axle for better weight distribution, rear-biased AWD, column-mounted paddle shifters and adaptive dampers as standard. Zero to 100 in 4.9 seconds. Sirish Chandran drove it on Italian mountain roads and genuinely did not expect it to be this good. It flows, it handles, it lets the tail move slightly when you want it to and it comes closer to the Macan's dynamic benchmark than anything had any right to.
The rear seat has more space than a Macan. The cabin has proper metal PRND buttons replacing the old plastic ones, an optional Sonus Faber sound system and a sunroof. The driver's seat is still the best seat in the house. Priced at ₹1.4 crore for the V6 Modena. The facelift arrives in India in Q4 2026.
The Macan ICE is gone. The Maserati Grecale is here. You will not be disappointed.
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