| Ferrari: The Road from Maranello | 
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Category: Book
Author: Dennis Adler
Publisher: Random House
Studio: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Label: Random House
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 344
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1400064635
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2222
EAN: 9781400064632
ASIN: 1400064635
Publication Date: December 5, 2006
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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Product Description
In 1945, Enzo Ferrari, the onetime director of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo?s fabled racing program, emerged from Alfa?s shadow to create his own legend. Out of the rubble of World War II, Ferrari established an auto works whose products would surpass anything before seen. Demand for handcrafted racing cars in postwar Italy, however, was slight. At the urging of a former colleague, Ferrari found a profitable niche for his creations in America?which still remains Ferrari?s biggest market.
Now esteemed automotive journalist, historian, and photographer Dennis Adler presents Ferrari: The Road from Maranello?the stunningly illustrated story of one of the most coveted and recognized automobile lines in the world. Written with the full cooperation of the Ferrari works, this sumptuous book is illuminated throughout with more than 200 color and one hundred fifty archival black-and-white photos, some of which have never before been published. Featured are many legendary Ferraris from road and track: the Tipo 125, Ferrari?s debut production racer; the Farina Cabriolet, the first Ferrari for consumers; the 212 coupe (the Inter); the 365 GTB/4 Daytona; the 312 series cars that dominated world endurance racing in the early 1970s; the incomparable Testa Rossa and Berlinetta Boxer series; the brutally powerful F50, ?the fastest road car ever?; and Ferrari?s Grand Prix and Formula One cars, driven by champions from Alberto Ascari to Niki Lauda to Michael Schumacher.
Chronicled in interviews with racing legends including Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, and Phil Hill, as well as renowned Ferrari designers Sergio Pininfarina, Sergio Scaglietti, and many others is the fascinating history of Ferrari through its successes and failures, setbacks and triumphs. Here are first-person stories of legendary battles pitting Ferrari against Ford, Porsche, and other marques on race circuits from Monaco and Monza to Daytona and Le Mans.
Stylishly written and highlighted by magnificent photography, Ferrari is a fitting tribute to the ultimate expressions of automotive excellence.
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Superior Photgraphy Showcases the Top Examples of the Marque April 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
One should buy this book for the photographs, which are very good to excellent, and capture a multitude of the most famous Ferrari models.
Right off the back the book opens with a short chapter on Pinin Farina's (as the name was then written) Cisitalia 202, a nicely done short history with twelve color photographs showcasing a superb red example of this legendary car and epochal monument of automobile design. (There's one of these in MOMA.)
This great start gets muddied up with a confusing overview previewing the upcoming chapters. I think the book would have read better without this section, or at least, without duplicating later photos. Too, better editing would have helped an ongoing and annoying discontinutiy between page and image. Writing a review is not helped by such confusion, I must say! Also, themes and topics pop up here and there without any convincing larger focus - surely this book could have been better organized and not so helter-skelter in its directions.
However, despite these intellectual issues - or peccadilloes if you wish -the book does give a wonderful overview of Ferrari's greatest cars, most in pristine condition. Readers are treated to an embarrassement of riches as one section on a legendary Ferrari flows into yet an even more legendary model!
The oh-so-critical colors are printed with great care - the paler yellow Luigi Chinetti demanded for the Sergio Scaglietti 275 GTB/4 Spyder (cars derivisely derided by Enzo Ferrari as taxis!) is perfectly contrasted with a richer yellow 275 GTB. (The preview chapter boasts an even brighter shade - a screaming yellow 250 GT Short Wheelbase Berlinetta!)
Chapter two covers Enzo Ferrari's career with a series of historic photos, but does not add any historical revelations.
Just how rich a collection of photographs is contained here might be gauged by counting the 150 plus color photos (not counting in addition many historical black and whites) all coming in the first hundred pages. Chapter 5, a touching study of Ferrari's Dino, has wonderful shots of the car Ferrari named after his beloved son, Dino, who courageously faced a terrible early death.
The book includes a thorough index: overall this is an outstanding art book, with its editing issues quite overhwelmed by the majesty of the Ferrari images.
A Tifosi special August 31, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
A brilliant Ferrari book.Beautifully illustrated and a mine of information. Reasonably priced too.A must for all Tifosi !!!
It's like a Ferrari - you can't wait to drive through the pages March 24, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Forget the images - although they are spectacular. Forget the archive photos - although they are revealing (and historic). Concentrate on the words, yes I mean read the story. For the first time I found myself actually interested in the man who created these incredible machines. Adler makes him come alive, 3 dimensional, in a ways I never knew about Enzo. It's a great book on all fronts, at all speeds, bravo! A real page turner - and then start all over again.
FERRARI: THE ROAD FROM MARANELLO January 16, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Probably my best book on Ferrari! The book deals expertly with the history of the marque, all significant Ferrari cars and also racing. I feel, however,that too much emphasis has been given to the role Chinetti played in the success of Ferrari. The American connection is nevertheless interesting. The book deals with some of the stories behind the story. I find the parts dealing with the famed coach designers and builders especially interesting e.g. Pininfarina, Scaglietti, etc. A well illustrated book that is a must for any serious sports and racing car lover, especially Ferraristi!
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