Toulon – Maserati

It's a working city rather than a resort one, and that's exactly the character Toulon brings: the French Navy's principal Mediterranean base since Louis XIV, warships still anchored in the roadstead below a harbor that's handled serious naval traffic for four centuries. Above the port, Mont Faron rises almost 600 meters straight from the waterfront, reachable by a cable car that opened in 1959 and, for drivers, by a road that switches back hard enough to test a car's composure at every turn.

Maserati trades on Italian sonority as much as speed, a V8 or V6 note tuned as carefully as the styling. Rent or hire a Maserati with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the switchbacks up Mont Faron, the harbor full of naval grey below. Rent or hire your sports car with Zeus Prestige in Toulon, delivered exactly as booked.

From the summit fort the whole geography of the Var makes sense: Toulon anchors one end of the coast, Saint-Tropez and Cannes further along, the calanques of Cassis just to the west.

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