Parramatta Park is World Heritage-listed for its various convict-built cottages and other buildings and importance to early Australian settlement history. Old Government House, county home of the first 10 governors of NSW, is Australia s oldest remaining public building and houses a top collection of colonial furniture.
3. … and Australia s oldest intact European building
Elizabeth Farm in Rosehill was built in 1793 and is now surrounded by a recreated 1830s garden. John and Elizabeth Macarthur s home played a key role in the early development of NSW. You can wander around the homestead at will, as no velvet ropes constrain your curiosity.
4. You can still hit the waves
Clean sweep for Chaz Mostert, completes Easter sweep with final race win
3 days ago
Chaz Mostert’s TCR Australia championship lead has been extended even further after the Melbourne Performance Centre driver took his third win from three races at Mount Panorama.
Joining international star Néstor Girolami as the only driver in the category’s history to complete a clean sweep of a round, Mostert was able to notch up his fifth win of the year aboard the Audi RS 3 LMS after a late scrap for the lead in an incident shortened final race.
For the third straight race, Aaron Cameron was able to get the jump on pole-sitter Mostert off the line, leading into Hell Corner aboard the Garry Rogers Motorsport prepared Peugeot 308 TCR. Mostert was able to stick with the GRM car but had Cameron’s team-mate Jordan Cox in the #5 Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR keeping him honest behind.
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Maserati takes a different track with Trofeo CarsGuide 4 days ago Stephen Corby
Maseratis make a certain amount of sense to a certain kind of person. As the folks who run the brand in Australia will tell you, its buyers are the kind of people who’ve driven German premium vehicles, but find themselves wanting something more.
They are older, wiser and, most importantly, richer.
While it’s easy to see the high-end lure of Maserati’s Italian sex appeal styling and luxuriously appointed interiors, they’ve always struck me as cruisers rather than bruisers.
Again, they’re for the older, more generously padded buyer, which makes the Trofeo range something of an oddity. Maserati says its Trofeo badge - seen here on its mid-sized sedan, the Ghibli, which sits below the vast Quattroporte limousine (and side on to the other car in the range, the SUV Levante) - is all about the Art of Fast .
Transmission is razor-sharp
Cons
It s the last Maserati V8. Boo
It s expensive against its natural rivals
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If you’ve ever wanted a Ferrari four-door sedan, then you’ve been fresh out of luck, with the Prancing Horse focusing all its energies on coupes and grand tourers. Luckily,
Maserati has you covered with Ferrari V8 power under the bonnet of its range of Quattroporte sedans since the introduction of the fifth generation in 2003.
Now, though, Maserati’s mid-size sedan gets the Ferrari V8 treatment for the first time, with the
2021 Maserati Ghibli Trofeo joining the brand’s line-up of high-performance cars and SUVs.