The Maserati Boomerang celebrates its 50th anniversary

The Maserati Boomerang celebrates its 50th anniversary. This striking sports car was created by Giorgetto Giugiaro and we first saw it at the 1972 Geneva Motor Show, exactly half a century ago. The truth is that this aggressive sports car never made it into production. The Maserati Boomerang is considered a genuine work of art and is much more than a simple prototype. It is based on the Maserati Bora and features an impressive 4.7-litre, 90º V8 engine.

According to the trident brand itself, this engine produces 315 CV, and it was capable of taking the Maserati Boomerang past 300 kilometres per hour. Like the Lamborghini Countach designed by Marcello Gandini and the Lancia Stratos Zero, the Maserati Boomerang was a concept with a wedge-shaped body and a genuine vision of the future, one that had an enormous impact on the car industry.

The Maserati sports car had an angular windscreen that flows into a sliding panoramic roof. This anticipated the increasingly common trend of making the entire upper half of a vehicle out of as much glass as possible.

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This is the Maserati Boomerang, celebrating its 50th anniversary

The interior of the Maserati Boomerang was as exciting as it was surreal. The lower window could be opened, giving the driver the apparent ability to touch the ground. The steering wheel has no spokes, so the instrument cluster can be seen in all its glory. Over the years, the Maserati Boomerang has passed through many hands and has appeared at several fairs and car exhibitions as well as in television commercials.

The trident brand has stated that “the Maserati Boomerang, considered by many to be a genuine work of art, was revolutionary and went on to influence the designs of subsequent models. It continued the tradition of Maserati as a brand capable of creating unique concept cars, iconic and avant-garde automobiles that acted as pioneers in technology and style.”

The model was designed around a horizontal line that divided the car in two, with a raked windscreen and a panoramic sunroof. The original windows, especially on the two doors, were interspersed with a strip of metal. The retractable square headlights stood out at the front, together with the horizontal lights at the rear. It was extremely modern in terms of its interior, where the instruments were integrated into the spokeless steering wheel and the seats were positioned very low.