Maserati MC20 Cielo wins 'Best Designed Car of the Year' at The News UK Motor Awards 2023

London, 6th October 2023  -  Last night at the prestigious News UK Motor Awards 2023, the Maserati MC20 Cielo was named as the ‘Best Designed Car of the Year’.

This accolade bestowed on the MC20 Cielo was chosen by the News UK’s experienced group of motoring journalists and experts who sit across publications including Driving.co.uk, The Sunday Times and The Times Luxx. 

The annual News UK Motor Awards aim to celebrate the best in class across all categories within the automotive sector, looking at all models and segments.

Will Dron, editor of Driving.co.uk, said: "Maserati seems to have a lot of confidence once more, and its revitalisation started with the beautiful MC20. In creating the Cielo version, all the things we loved about the coupé have been retained while adding fine details that are both functional and elegant, and allowing drivers to be even more exposed to the car's V6 soundtrack. The folding glass roof itself is neat and high tech, with the PDLC feature underscoring how Maserati is now very much on the front foot technically. Most importantly for our judges, the MC20 Cielo is quite simply a stunning thing to behold."

Commenting on the exciting win, General Manager, Maserati North Europe, Peter Charters said, “Our flagship model, the MC20 Cielo, is uniquely Italian and exotically Maserati, and we are honoured that it has won such a prestigious accolade. It is testament to the Maserati design team who have created such a beautiful and captivating design with the soul and performance of such a super sports car.”

At the heart of the MC20 Cielo is the revolutionary new ‘Nettuno’ engine, a 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 that delivers 630 horsepower at 7,500 rpm and powers it to just shy of 200 mph. Maserati’s latest engine is the first intended for a road car to use an innovative pre-chamber combustion system with twin spark plugs, a technology derived from Formula 1.

The MC20 Cielo also features an innovative hard top roof which can still give the impression of an open top and the endless sky above, even when closed. It does so through its innovative glass panel which can also be seamlessly switched between opaque and transparent at the touch of a button. The roof can also fold away or close at speeds of up to 31 mph.

More information on the award-winning Maserati MC20 Cielo can be found at www.maserati.com/gb/en/models/mc20-cielo.

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Maserati produces a complete range of unique cars, immediately recognisable for their extraordinary personality. Thanks to their style, technology and innately exclusive character, they delight the most discerning, demanding tastes and have always been a benchmark for the global automotive industry. A tradition of successful cars, each of them redefining what makes an Italian sports car in terms of design, performance, comfort, elegance and safety, currently available in more than 70 markets internationally. The ambassadors of this heritage are the Quattroporte flagship, the Ghibli sports sedan, the Levante – the first SUV made by Maserati, and the Grecale, the “everyday exceptional” SUV, all models characterised by the use of the highest quality materials and excellent technical solutions. A range equipped with 4-cylinder hybrid powertrains – available for Ghibli, Grecale and Levante – V6 and V8 petrol engines, with rear-wheel and four-wheel drive, embodying the performance DNA of the Trident Brand, now completed with the Grecale Folgore, Maserati’s first full-electric SUV. The top of the range is made up of the MC20 super sports car and the MC20 Cielo spyder, powered by the ground-breaking 100% Maserati Nettuno V6 engine, which incorporates F1-derived technologies into the power unit of a standard production car for the first time. The new GranTurismo is available with both the powerful V6 petrol engine, derived from the Nettuno, and a 100% electric version: the GranTurismo Folgore, the first car in the Modena-based brand’s history to adopt this solution. By 2025, all Maserati models will also be available in a full-electric version, and the entire Maserati range will run on electricity alone by 2030.