The strata of luxury SUVs is becoming a crowded one, which is good for consumers. Plenty of options to peruse. But selecting your ideal ute from the growing stable grows increasingly harder with each new model launched. You’ve got the mainstay options from America, Germany and Japan, but newer to game are the Italians.

For the discerning gentleman who wants his leather-drenched luxo-barge to also be the fastest, there’s the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. That 505-hp whopper tore its way around the Nurburgring Nordschleife in an impressive sub-8:00 lap time. A nice marketing tout, but few buyers are looking to shell out six-figures for that kind of performance when it’ll just be used to shuttle to and from work and the grocery store. Which brings us to Maserati and its Levante.