Maserati GranTurismo Folgore: the UK electric grand tourer is on sale from £179,950 — but read the range figure first

Two hundred and seventy-nine miles. That is the WLTP figure hanging over the most beautiful electric car Maserati has ever built, and it is the number I keep coming back to. CAR Magazine’s 2025 review lists the GranTurismo Folgore as on sale in the UK now, priced from £179,950 — a fully electric grand tourer wearing one of the great GT silhouettes, asking near-£180k money, and offering a real-world touring range that a £40k saloon would be embarrassed by.

So before anyone gets carried away by the noise — and there is plenty to get carried away by — let me lay out exactly what UK buyers are signing up for, and where I think the case holds together and where it doesn’t.

The performance is not the problem (Maserati GranTurismo Folgore)

Maserati has put three electric motors into this car — two at the rear, one at the front — for a combined 751bhp and 996lb ft of torque. The headline figures, as logged in CAR’s review, are 0–62mph in 2.7 seconds and a top speed of 202mph. That is supercar territory dressed up as a continent-crusher, and it puts the Folgore on a level with anything from Stuttgart or Maranello on outright pace.

What I like is that Maserati hasn’t simply chased the numbers and forgotten the brief. This is still a GranTurismo — a 2+2 built to cover long distances in comfort and style — and the Folgore is the electric expression of that, not a stripped-out track special. The point of this car is the drive between two cities, not a quarter-mile slip.

Which is exactly why the range gives me pause.

The number that complicates everything

The Folgore runs a 92.5kWh battery (83kWh usable) on a proper 800V architecture, and the claimed WLTP range lands at 279–280 miles across UK testing. On paper that is fine. In a grand tourer — a car whose entire identity is the long haul — it is tight. Knock off the usual real-world deductions for motorway speed and British weather and you are planning your day around charging stops far sooner than the badge suggests.

The saving grace is the charging hardware. That 800V system accepts up to 270kW on a DC rapid charger, which the testers quote as 10–80% in under 20 minutes, or roughly 62 miles of range added in five minutes. If you can find a charger that delivers it, the top-up is genuinely quick. The catch is that the UK’s ultra-rapid network still can’t reliably hand over 270kW everywhere, so the experience will swing wildly depending on where you stop. For a car at this price, that is a frustrating dependency to be at the mercy of.

Ordering, deliveries and what it actually costs

Here’s where the timeline needs untangling, because the reporting hasn’t been tidy. Carwow puts the order window opening in February 2024, while first UK deliveries were originally projected for the second half of 2023 — a slightly awkward sequence that reflects how staggered Maserati’s global rollout was. The practical upshot today is simpler: the car is on sale, you can configure and order one, and it is being delivered.

On price, the £179,950 list is only ever the starting point with a Maserati. Reckon on comfortably over £190k once you’ve been near the options list, which on a car like this you will be. The Car Expert has tracked the Folgore since its 2023 introduction, and the throughline is consistent: this is a six-figure statement car, and it’s priced like one.

Who this is really for

Let me be plain about the buyer. If you want the fastest, longest-legged electric GT money can buy and you’re cross-shopping on a spreadsheet, this isn’t it — there are EVs with more range and fewer compromises for less. The Folgore is not the rational choice and it never set out to be.

But that misreads what’s being sold here. The people who will write the cheque are buying a Maserati — the design, the badge, the sense of occasion, the fact that it looks like nothing else in the car park. For them the 279-mile range is a known quantity to be managed, not a dealbreaker, because the second or third car in the garage covers the days that don’t suit it. On those terms, the Folgore is one of the most desirable electric cars on sale.

What would stop me signing

If this were my £180k, the spec sheet wouldn’t be what worried me — the performance is sensational and the 800V charging is genuinely fast when it’s fed properly. What I’d want pinned down first is the real-world range against my actual routes, and a clear-eyed look at how often I’d be hunting for a charger capable of that 270kW peak. Get satisfactory answers to those two questions and the Folgore makes a compelling, emotional case for itself. Leave them unanswered and you’re paying grand-tourer money for a car that asks you to plan like a city EV. I’d order one — but only after a long weekend with a demonstrator on my own roads, not the brochure’s. Cross-check the full spec and pricing against an independent breakdown like Carwow’s price and specs page before you commit to anything.