Customer Reviews

Lamborghini: Forty Years

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Nicely published, great cover, very good quality paper, excellent photos. Contains much material not generally available prior to this work. The focus is on financial issues, various owners of the company, top managers and engineers involved, and other aspects of the company (not so much the cars). Interesting coverage of the marine engines built for offshore racing and some material on the various F1 efforts. The coverage of the early years of the factory is more sketchy. I found a large number of glaring and important errors throught the book and this was disappointing. Surely a quick pre-publication review by a person even moderately knowledgable in the subject could have caught many of the larger mistakes.

I've been collecting Lamborghini automobilia and books for over twenty years now, and I have every English written book published on Lamborghini.

When this one was announced I pre-ordered it and when it finally arrived I had the same sentiment as some of the other reviewers here, it's a nice book, but there are a lot of errors, and wrong captions with photo's.
Other than that it's a nice book, perhaps some of the models were overlooked or didn't get as much attention as we would like, especially the new models like the Gallardo, Murcielago Barchetta and the Murcielago R-GT, all press photo's, but I guess at the time of writing there weren't too many cars available to photograph.

All in all a nice book, good addition to any collection or Lamborghini enthusiast, but not a source book or encyclopedia on Lamborghini, just a nice selection of photo's and easy to read story.

The story is great, well researched, and offered many new insights. But the big flaw are the pictures. As another reviewer wrote, there as just too many mistakes. Mixing the Diablo for a Countach is simply ...! Didn't the author see the final print? The book has a strange lay-out. Thanks to the format half of the page has text, the other half is plain-blank. Enough blank space for many more pictures. That's the book's other picture-problem: There aren't many. No pictures, except one, of prototypes. There is also far too much attention for the Audi-age, with a whole chapter about the Gallardo. This section has loads of Gallardo-pictures, but all of them are factory-photo's I already saw in various car-magazines. Almost no attention for the lm002 either. You do need to buy another Lamborghini photo-book to get the picture.

I found this to be a great book (I'm biased) but whoever did the photo descriptions needs a "kick up the tush". The photo descriptions need editing....
p39 It's a 400 GT not a Marzal
p42 It's either a Miura or Miura S not a Miura SV (p43 is an SV)
p47 It's a Diablo not a Countach
p66 It's a 5000 Quattrovalve not a 500 S
P84 It's a Diablo not a Countach
p172 It's a photo of a 400 GT not a Marzal
I haven't read through the main text yet.
But great book - maybe I can get a job proof reading the next one
(I'll do it for a Muira SV....;-) )
But overall a great book. Thanks all

As another reviewer pointed out, this book is about the factory and key management. There is very little information on the cars, unless it is to further the story of the company. For example they would list some improvements and performance figures to describe managements attempt to boost sales.

I noticed errors as well. One chapter ends with the company being bought for 33 milion. The next chapter starts mentioning the purchase at 25 million. 2 pages appart. I had heard many of the stories told in this book told differently in other books. Why some cars came and went is still a mystery to me.

The book does tell the story of the company well. I enjoyed reading it and found the story really interesting. Not sure if was all accurate and complete, but I did really enjoy reading it. The company has had major ups and downs, and survived against all odds, which makes for good reading.

If you want to learn about the company Lamborghini, this book is for you. If you want to learn about the cars and look at beautiful pictures of all things Lamborghini, look elsewhere.

There are lots of incorrect captions in this book that annoyed me very much! They were so blatant. but my biggest beef was that there were cars talked about with NO pictures or one small picture from say the rear the quarter. i would definitely NOT recommend this book and the only reason why I bought was because I pre-ordered it aka bought it site unseen.

Received this as a gift. Love the cars and especially the Countach section (became an owner 5 years ago). These are very visual cars, and although I would have liked a bit more history and detail, it really is all about the pictures. Great gift and pictures, a little weak on the written part, but overall good.