It’s a brown convertible with multiple shades of brown in the cabin and it’s electric. What on earth is this doing on the pages of RUSH? Well, I’m beyond bored of black cars with monotone trim, wheels and interiors so it makes a refreshing change, but more importantly, it’s a one-off Maserati.

Just like Lamborghini’s Ad Personam customisation programme, Maserati have one of their own that lets customers personalise their car to their exacting desires. Called Furioserie, the programme has recently created two special edition versions of the MC20, called Icona and Leggenda, but now the attention has turned to one very special GranCabrio Folgore. As the name suggests, the GranCabrio is the convertible sibling to the GranTurismo coupé, with Folgore being the Italian word for lightning and Maserati’s name for their electric models.

Non-electric variants get a 3.0 litre biturbo V6 with up to 542 bhp on tap, a slightly more open grille and exhaust pipes at the rear, but all GranTurismo and GranCabrio models look equally gorgeous to my eyes. I just wish that the charging port on the rear bumper could be moved somewhere else so as not to spoil the wonderful lines at the rear of the model.

The platform has been engineered from day one to accept both petrol and electric power and uses a T-shaped battery using the space within the transmission tunnel and at either end of the cabin to house the cells, as opposed to the widely used skateboard-style batteries which are placed underneath the cabin. This means that the GranCabrio sits as low to the ground as a two-door maserati should.