insideKENT Magazine Issue 28 - July 2014 | Page 140

MOTORS

OTR PRICE: £48,835
TOP SPEED: 155 MPH
0-62 MPH: 6.3 SECONDS
ECONOMY: COMBINED 47.9 MPG
PERFORMANCE: 275 BHP
COMBINED CO2: 158 G/KM

The Maserati looks fast when driving through
town at 30mph, indeed it even looks speedy
when parked. But then it's never about showing
off with the Ghibli. It isn't about what other
people think, the best thing is how it makes you
yourself feel.
Winding up a Maserati Ghibli with its 275bhp 3litre V6 diesel engine incorporated with the
Maserati Active Sound System which is designed
to enhance the engine's most attractive sounds
(as a car-noise worshipper, I cannot express my
love for this concept adequately enough!) creates
a gut-wrenching, grin-inducing, polyphonic
symphony of joyous engine noise that you have
to hear at least once in your life. I’m not kidding,
put it on your bucket list! Whilst this magnificent
motor melody is played out you can enjoy the

experience of roaring from 0-62 in 6.3 seconds,
as well as marvelling hypothetically at the top
speed of 155mph.
The ride in the Ghibli is very comfortable indeed
and you could serenely cruise about feeling at
peace with the world and hardly realise you are
moving. However, when the car is in sport mode
and the amazing Skyhook system is set to firm
(Skyhook being an active suspension
management device that tries to keep the car
body as level as possible by individually and
continuously adjusting the damping rate of each
shock absorber). The car becomes a very different
beast. Roaring magnificently like a proud lion,
the Ghibli is beautifully responsive both in steering
and power, and is brilliantly balanced in terms of
weight distribution. To say this car handles
superbly would be a terrible understatement.

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The late, great Margaret Thatcher once said:
“Power is like being a lady...if you have to tell
people you are, you aren't.” This can be applied
very nicely to the Maserati Ghibli. It doesn't have
to tell anyone it is luxurious, or powerful, stylish
or brilliant. It just is, and when you drive one, you
just know.

Motorline Maserati
Bircholt Rd
Maidstone
ME15 9XY
www.motorline.co.uk/maserati