The Karif or Tipo AM339 is a luxury coupé produced by Maserati between 1988 and 1991.

Designed to mix luxury with sporty looks and agile handling, the Karif was announced with a limited production run of 255 examples.

This is exactly what modern manufacturers do now and with great success, however only 221 Karif’s were sold with late cars being sold long after this build date.

Built on the same shortened chassis as the Zagato-bodied Maserati Spyder, they added a fixed notchback roof and used a more powerful iteration of their ‘Bi-turbo engine’, a 2.9 litre V6, giving around 260bhp.

Reviewed in the motoring press at the time as having ‘sawn off looks, shotgun performance’.

This is a rather special example, we are informed it was originally built for the Managing Director of Maserati in the UK, but the company went into receivership in 1990 and the car was never delivered.

The car is therefore painted in Dark Aquamarine, which is understood to be a unique colour, the other Karif’s ...