Anyone who knows anything about sports cars knows the Maserati name. Once the luxury division of Ferrari, it's currently owned by Stellantis, a multinational automobile manufacturer founded when the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merged with the French PSA Group.

But the Italian sports car's origin goes back to 1914 Bologna, Italy, where four of the seven Maserati brothers (Alfieri, Ettore, Ernesto, and Bindo) founded their legendary sports car company. In the early 1900s, Carlo and Alfieri Maserati worked on improving the electrical systems of early automobiles.