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Ferrari recently reported first-quarter results and announced a new hybrid supercar at the end of the month. Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri revealed at the earnings conference that Maserati will not renew her engine supply contracts with Ferrari, including V6 and V8 engines, after the current contract expires. As a result, Maserati will have to enter the FCA Group's procurement plan or find new engine suppliers from outside the group, but so far Maserati has not responded positively.

In the 1990s, Fiat Group handed over control of Maserati to Ferrari, so Ferrari and Maserati started the engine sharing program since 2002, until Ferrari officially left the FCA Group in 2015. One of the reasons why many people buy Maserati is that its engine is made by Ferrari.

Ferrari and Maserati belong to the same group, and they have always shared engines, and even when Ferrari left the FCA Group in 2015, it still provided Maserati with 3.0L twin-turbocharged V6, 3.8L twin-turbocharged V8 and 4.7L naturally aspirated V8. Maserati adjusts the Ferrari engine separately, and the engines are made at the Ferrari Maranello factory, which is one reason why Maserati is welcome. after all, you can have the same Ferrari engine for 1 pound 3 or less.

Maserati's current sales are worrying, with global sales of just 34900 vehicles in 2018, down 32 per cent from a year earlier, and an even worse decline in the first quarter today, with global sales of just 5500 vehicles, down 41 per cent from a year earlier. You know, Levante, which has the highest sales in China, needs to increase its price by at least 100000 in 2016 and 2017, but the current discount rate is as high as 450000, but it still can't stop its sales decline.

It is worth mentioning that Ferrari has no plans to supply engines to other carmaker suppliers. After that, Maserati will have three options: developing her own engines, carrying the existing engines of the FCA Group, and finding new external suppliers of engines.

In this way, Maserati can also take the opportunity to turn to the new energy field and realize the electrification plan, and the North American regional director said, "Maserati will make a comprehensive update of her models by 2022. Launch a series of electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars. But Maserati will not be fully electrified and will continue to keep the internal combustion engine because "this is a brand that needs internal combustion engines." It needs that primitive emotion. "

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