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| Performance | 8/10   |
|---|---|
| Practicality | 6/10 |
| Reliability | 8/10 |
| Value for Money | 8/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 7.5/10 |
| Overall Rating | 8.8/10 |
Full review by
xstevex
on 5th Sep 2007
User Rating : 8
Respect :
0
Good Points: Looks amazing, very comfortable, even faster. My Maserati was Jet Black with huge OZ alloys, cream leather and suede interior with lashings of wood and a £1000 gold clock. Performance was amazing, being only 18 when I owned it and having only driven my golf GTDI, Touareg V6, and a couple of other car's including a 1.0 205 (my first car). It blew my breathe away you could drive it around town and it would feel no harder or faster than a Mondeo. But when you put your foot on your right hand pedal an inch you were launched. With two turbo's reaching 280 BHP as soon as you hit about 3.5-4,000 rmp you were going so fast. It sat 4 fairly comfortably, and had a quite large boot although no spare wheel which was odd.
Bad Points: As soon as you felt comfortable, which you did with lashings of leather and suede, it tried to catch you off guard and kill you. If the roads were wet, greasy, muddy, frosty, you had to options go slowly and let Fiesta's overtake you or try and drive at a normal speed and have the back end slide out in which ever direction it felt like. With two huge turbo chargers when the rev's got high it was like being hit with a baseball bat, huge speed and punch. It had the least grip of all the cars I have driven considering the low center of gravity and huge alloys.
General comments: I miss this car so much, but like smoking it is bad for your health and will kill you.
I bought this car from Cambridge and drove it home to Bath, normally a 3 1/2 journey with no traffic, it took me much less, I can assure you. I knew from the moment I drove it my life had changed. While driving you can be sitting at 90 thinking your doing about 40, and then if you decide to put your foot down, 110, 130, 140! that was my limit. I knew when your lights are on full beam and you still can't see far enough ahead it's time to stop.
I sold this car after several near misses and when I decided that I would like to see my 19th birthday.
I miss it almost every day it's been a year now and writing this makes my heartbeat rise and when I look out my window and can't see it makes me sad.
I think I will always be addicted. Put simply, this car is a like a drug. You don't need to take them, it's not good for your health, and they will kill you or you will be hooked for life!
But I still love it.
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Review by
Galactus
expert review 
on 9th Oct 2003
User Rating : 7
Respect :
+3
I loved this Maserati 1997 Ghibli GT 2.8. To be more precise, I fell in love with it and to this day, a part of me misses it - but it's the part of me that loves power slides and neck breaking acceleration, slamming on the breaks and narrowly avoiding ploughing off into the hedge i.e. the stupid part.
This car was the last incarnation of the 2+2 Biturbo shaped Maserati Ghibli. Under Fiat's control from 1994, this car had a fantastic and bulletproof 2.8 twin turbo V6 producing 280Bhp and 230 ...
Galactus's full review | 661 words | 1 comment added.
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