2008 Maserati Quattroporte Sport GTS
We’re not big fans of calling cars “sexy,” but if any one marque’s cars truly deserve the designation, it’s those produced by Maserati. Besides beauty, however, Maseratis have always possessed something else: a sporting pedigree born of the brand’s amazing race cars of the 1920s through ’50s.
The Quattroporte Sport GT S continues in that tradition. Maserati says the new four-door represents “the ultimate sporting expression of Maserati’s flagship model,” as it goes one step beyond the previously released Q-porte Sport GT.
The GT S uses the same 4.2-liter V-8 and six-speed automatic transmission as does the rest of the Quattroporte lineup.
With the powertrain unchanged, it’s the GT S’s revised suspension and brakes that provide the extra spiciness. The suspension has been tuned to what Maser claims is a “racing setup,” with new springs and shocks lowering the ride height by 0.4 inch in the front and 1.0 inch at the rear. The Brembo brakes utilize cross-drilled, aluminum-and-iron composite discs all around and new six-piston calipers up front.
The GT S remains breathtakingly good-looking, of course, but gains some menace with a black chrome mesh grille, blacked-out window trim, and body-color door handles in place of chrome.
Sinister 20-inch, seven-spoke wheels are also added. Inside, the instrument panel goes to carbon fiber and rear passengers get more supportive seats.
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