The new Quattroporte Sport GT S has arrived in Australia today, providing Maserati’s luxury performance saloon with a new sporting flagship that offers enhanced performance, a more aggressive chassis and gearbox and the unmistakable sound of a racetrack bred engine, matched by subtle changes to a body that has become an automotive classic.

“Maserati has a unique record on and off the race track for setting benchmarks for design, styling and performance that the rest of the industry has then followed,” says Edward Butler, General Manager of Maserati in Australia and New Zealand. “The Quattroporte is clearly one of the standard setters. It has captured not just the attention of car buyers, making it the most successful car that Maserati has produced, it has also set a benchmark for an exclusive performance saloon with an effortless blend of abilities, something other car makers are now rushing to emulate. But as the new Sport GT S demonstrates, Maserati is not prepared to stand still, it is simply not in the company’s DNA, and so the Sport GT S lifts the benchmark – again.”

The new Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S is the third variant in the new Maserati Quattroporte range, which starts with the Quattroporte 4.2 litre, followed by the Quattroporte S with the 4.7 litre engine and the range is now topped by the Sport GT S with a more powerful version of the 4.7 litre engine matched to a technical and equipment package producing the fastest, most aggressive Quattroporte to leave Maserati’s Modena factory. Compared to the Quattroporte S, top speed is lifted from 280 km/h to 285 km/h and the 0-100 km/h time is trimmed from 5.2 seconds to 5.1 seconds. But these figures are only part of the story of how Maserati has produced a luxury saloon that has the driving abilities of a supercar. Maserati has revised the mapping of the V8 4.7 litre engine, with power increased to 323 kW at 7000 rpm. In Sport mode valves open in the exhaust system to reduce back-pressure increasing maximum available power. These valves not only release more power – they also enable the Maserati V8 to create a throaty roar at low engine speeds and full symphonic sound of a genuine sports car at higher rpm.