Maserati 4cm 2000

Four-cylinder engines were not initially part of the Maserati program, but as these engines came to be widely used in sports cars by the late twenties and early thirties,

Four cylinder engines are not part of the Maserati program, but because this engine type is very popular in sports cars in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Maserati decides to develop one. Work is done on a 2.0 liter and a 2.5 liter. Only one example of the two liter version is built. The Maserati 4CM 2000 makes its debut in 1933 in the Coppa Ciano with Giuseppe Campari behind the wheel, who drives a fantastic race with it and finishes third. Count "Johnny" Lurani then enters the car in the Stelvio hill climb, but does not achieve good results there because the gearbox ratios are not suitable for this form of motorsport. Giuseppe "Nino" Farina still drives the Maserati 4CM 2000 at Bergamo in 1933 and 1934. The Maserati 4CM 2000 then ends up in the car museum of Monza and later in the English Montagu collection in Beaulieu, after which the one off Maserati four cylinder is added to the collection of the Louwman Museum. Because Maserati does not see a commercial future in four cylinders, production is kept very limited right from the start. In particular, the 2.5 liter version falls between two stools, because the car is too powerful for the cyclecar races but not powerful enough for the Grand Prix.