Lamborghini: Forty Years

Rating:
Summary: Great Book ....but
Review: 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

Rating:
Summary: Nice book ... but
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: great story, but...
Review: 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.