Maserati Heritage (Osprey Classic Marques) [Paperback]

David Sparrow (Author), Iain Ayre (Author)

Book Description

Series: Osprey Classic Marques | Publication Date: April 1995

This is a pictorial history of the Italian automobile marque, Maserati. Its history is traced from its foundation in 1926, when five brothers collaborated to produce a successful racing car, to post-war concentration on road cars, such as the 3500GT of the sixties, the 1978 Bora, the Biturbo Spyder of 1984 and today's Chamal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855324415
• ISBN-13: 978-1855324411
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,956,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only a picture book, and not a great one., May 9, 2001

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Aaron Michael Severson (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maserati Heritage (Osprey Classic Marques) (Paperback)

This is a loosely organized overview of Maseratis through 1995, concentrating primarily on road cars. It's primarily a picture book, and its lack of substantive historical or technical data is frustrating. The pictures are of high quality, but they're repetitive (even if you're a Maserati fanatic, how many lovingly photographed close-ups of the Maserati trident badge do you need) and they omit a lot of interesting models -- the saloons are particularly neglected. It's not clear for whom this book is intended. There's not enough information to constitute either a history or a buyer's guide, and if all you want is pretty pictures, there are other books that provide them and more content to go with them.