Maserati prices the MCPura at Rs 4.35 crore and launches the 914-unit GT2 Stradale at Rs 5.72 crore in India

Maserati has completed the India launch of its two flagship performance cars, the 2027-model-year MCPura and the track-focused GT2 Stradale, confirming ex-showroom pricing for both through the brand's own configurator: Rs 4.35 crore for the MCPura coupe, Rs 5.20 crore for the open-top MCPura Cielo, and Rs 5.72 crore for the GT2 Stradale — making it the most expensive car Maserati sells in India today.

What happened

Both cars share their underpinnings with the outgoing MC20, Maserati's mid-engined supercar, but take different approaches to it. The MCPura is a styling and technology update rather than a mechanical one: it carries over the MC20's 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged Nettuno V6, tuned to 630hp and 720Nm, driving the rear wheels through an eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox, with both the coupe and the Cielo convertible claiming 0-100kmph in 2.9 seconds and a top speed beyond 320kmph. What's new is a sharper front end with gloss-black accents, fresh alloy wheel designs, an updated steering wheel, laser-etched 3D Alcantara seat trim and an expanded colour palette that includes an "AI Aqua Rainbow" finish which shifts hue in sunlight. The Cielo's folding roof opens or closes in 12 seconds at speeds up to 50kmph. Against the outgoing car, the coupe is Rs 23 lakh more expensive and the Cielo Rs 8 lakh more.

The GT2 Stradale is a different proposition: a road-legal, race-car-derived version of the same platform, developed from Maserati's actual GT2 customer racing programme rather than simply restyled. Its version of the Nettuno V6 produces 640hp (10hp more than the MC20) and 720Nm, enough for a claimed 0-100kmph in 2.8 seconds and a 324kmph top speed. The aerodynamic package is extensive for a road car — a redesigned front bumper, diffuser, bonnet and wheel-arch vents to manage pressure, enlarged rear intakes said to improve cooling airflow by 16%, and a three-position adjustable rear wing capable of generating up to 500kg of downforce at 280kmph in its most aggressive setting, more than triple the 145kg the standard MC20 produces. The car uses the same carbon-fibre monocoque chassis as the MC20 and the actual GT2 race car, with suspension, steering and brakes revised to match, 20-inch forged wheels that shave roughly 19kg of unsprung weight, and a front-axle lift system that raises the nose by 35mm to clear speed breakers and driveway ramps — a detail that matters on Indian roads in a way it might not on a European test track. At 1,365kg dry, it's 60kg lighter than the standard MC20. Worldwide production is capped at 914 units, a reference to 1914, the year Maserati was founded; the brand has not said how many of those are earmarked for India.

Both launches happened at the same 30 October event where Maserati also unveiled its updated Grecale, GranTurismo and GranCabrio range (covered in our earlier report) and opened a new flagship dealership in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex with the Navnit Group — Maserati's third flagship outlet in India after Delhi and Bengaluru. Maserati CEO Santo Ficili, who also leads Alfa Romeo, attended in person on his first visit to India since taking charge of the brand, underlining how the company is treating India as a market to invest in rather than simply ship cars to.

What it means for an Indian buyer

For the handful of Indian buyers who shop in the Rs 4-6 crore performance-car bracket, the MCPura and GT2 Stradale give Maserati two genuinely different answers to "what's your fastest car": a usable, everyday supercar in the MCPura, and a far more track-focused, numbered, scarcity-driven halo car in the GT2 Stradale that will likely be allocated to existing Maserati owners or early registrants before it's offered more broadly. Anyone seriously interested in the GT2 Stradale should register intent with a dealer now rather than wait for a public order window — with a global cap of 914 units split across every market Maserati sells in, India's share is almost certainly small, and first-come allocation is the norm for cars positioned this way.

The pricing detail worth flagging to a prospective buyer is the same "pre-FTA" caveat Maserati attached to its facelifted GranTurismo and GranCabrio a day earlier: current MCPura and GT2 Stradale prices are listed as provisional ahead of an India-EU free trade agreement that is expected to ease import duty on a quota of European-built cars, potentially lowering list prices once it takes effect next year. A buyer with no urgency might reasonably ask a dealer whether locking in a price now protects against a future increase, or whether waiting could mean a lower bill — Maserati has not committed to either outcome, so this is a conversation worth having explicitly rather than assuming either way.

The Auto Grid angle

A carbon-fibre-bodied, 60kg-lighter supercar with an aggressive aerodynamic package is not a car most owners are going to park and forget — the GT2 Stradale's whole reason for being is cars that get driven hard, including on track days, where stone chips, brake dust and tyre debris do real damage to a front bumper and splitter in a single session. The MCPura's butterfly doors and low-slung carbon tub mean every entry and exit is a close call with a kerb edge, and its "AI Aqua Rainbow" and other special-order finishes are exactly the kind of paint that can't simply be colour-matched and resprayed at a neighbourhood body shop if it's chipped. For a car in this bracket — bought to be driven, not just displayed — film over the front bumper, bonnet, mirror caps and rocker panels before the first real drive is the difference between keeping a factory finish on a numbered, limited-run car and sending it back to Italy for a bespoke refinish.

What's next

Maserati has not disclosed India's allocation out of the GT2 Stradale's 914-unit global production run, nor confirmed how the India-EU FTA, once finalised, will affect MCPura or GT2 Stradale pricing. We'll update this story once either detail is confirmed.