Lamborghini Reviews

Border Crosser With A Lambourghini Dream spells it out for the reader:this book is an inyoface collection of poems that spins our curiosities into unknown directions. The reader is spellbound by images that riff off another; thus, this book becomes the mirror image of self and forces the reader to look internally at damage done.From Subzero:"image/mirage/indian/myself/reversed/behind/the mule". The section, Blood Poems, is raw & unique. Juan Felipe's abstract imagery is the hardcore language that becomes spit in the face: it is the language & gesture of the hoodrat, the hipster, the street person--" Blood at the age of seventeen/Blood at the age of one,in a Greyhound bus". These poems will shake your reality lopsided.

As with much of Herrera's poetry, the reader will experience estrangement of the first order. One may picture American society as an "exploding quazar" that requires several readings to discern. Herrera's synecdoches take time to unravel, but well worth the effort. This is Carlos Santana meeting David Lynch: the "Last Mayan rock band" performing songs that aptly depict society, the status of art, and subjectivity at the twilight of postmodernism. Good stuff.

it was a good book. i thought it was good it was a good book i thought it was good it was a good book i thought it was good how about youoooooooooooooooooooo yahoo

This book has been carefully written and well researched. It provides a complete, accurate history of the Miura from the initial market dynamics that caused Lamborghini to conceive the car, to prototypes, to the last SV. It also lists some of the one-offs such as the Jota, ZN-75, and Furia-bodied car. Almost every page has a black and white photo, and there are eight color pages in the center of this 184-page book. Pete Coltrin's photography is timeless. Appendix 1 lists the production order, chassis number, engine number, date, colour (it a British book), interior, and comments for every Miura. The list is presumably as accurate as the factory's (which means it may not be 100% accurate) but it's a great reference. Appendix 3 shows Official literature. If you're a Miura fan, you have to have this book.

I am a Lamborghini owner so I have researched every possible factabout the car. Not because i plan on selling or replacing parts forworn ones, but for the fact that this car is truly a mark ofexcellence in the super car genre. I've read many books and this oneis about a five when compared to all the others. It gives facts butits mainly for the beginner lamborghini ethusiasts, not those that hasindepth details on the cars. As anyone Lambo ethusiasts knows, itshard to find Accurate stats on the car's performance numbers, but thisbook has all of its facts and numbers correct. For the guy at thetop,..that little four door that dodge produced for lamborghini is nota "True lamborghini" , go to this sight and have your eyesblown from there sockets from cars your eyes wouldn't believe.

As an owner of a Lamborghini Diablo VT (which I'm still timid to drive above 70MPH) I would have to say that this is one of the best books on the famous italian cars I have ever seen. It offers complete color pictures and some interesting information that I never knew, and made me go peaking under the hood. If you have a Lamborghini, or wish you did (like who wouldn't!), this book is money well worth spent.

This book is so beautiful good information for persons that love Lamborghini, so beatiful pictures, good print quality. No bored information about every part only interesting information. In the book you will found a surprise a car called Portofino, that I have never saw in any place.

The world is waiting for a comprehensive, objective, thorough review of the history and characteristics of the Countach. This isn't it. Dron manages to show a lot of (not very good) pictures, write a lot of babble, and skimp on substance. He also manages to throw in a few gratuitous insults of Enzo Ferrari and Ferrari cars... hardly a sign of objective reporting.
It's a fine book for twelve-year-olds with Countach posters on their bedroom walls, I suppose; a serious student of Italian exotics or a serious potential Countach buyer will derive little of value from this volume.

If you are considering the purchase of a Countach, it is likely to be a used one and there is precious little information to be had on these cars. Much of Peter Dron's book consists of a light historical treatment, collected reviews and opinions from auto magazines over the years. This is useful to a degree, one does need to know characteristic data, but magazine reviews are usually pretty slim on other information that serious buyers might like to know.

True, many owners of Countachs buy them as trophies and barely break them in. Yes, there are a few racing enthusiasts. But there are also a few mundane souls who would really like to go out and drive this sort of car, rather than just invest in it, stare at it in a garage or tinker with it.

So how reliable is it day after day? Approximately how expensive is it to maintain? By 1995 this type of information should be known for each generation of the car. You won't find this in Consumer Reports either. This market ain't exactly their bailiwick. You need to talk to owners and shops.

Dron's book is useful. Much of the information that a buyer does want is in there. It could and should have been quite a bit better, but I do recommend purchasing it if you are interested in this car.

A book on the evolution of the Lamborghini Countac

An adequate overview of the marque, but the model descriptions are fairly lightweight and there's next to no analysis of problems to expect or things buyers should look for. If you're going to hunt down an out-of-print Lambo book, better to spend your time looking for the "Complete Book of Lamborghini" by Pete Lyons, which has lots more info and better pictures, too!

This is less of a buyer's guide and more of a complete model review of everything put out by Lamborghini. It does contain some production figure information and engine variations, but not enough to turn this into a true buyer's guide. What it does do is provide lots of pictures (B&W only) and a very short description of each model. Organiztion is rough, with some important details hidden amongst prose. With over a dozen models from Lamborghini, a single book attempting to cover them all only does a mediocre job

This is just one of those books that any Lamborghini enthusiast should have. It covers the complete history as well as today's Diablo. For those interested in the history of Lamborghini, the author has included several pieces of information that would otherwise be unknown and several pictures that have never been publicly published outside of this book of prototype cars and concept cars.

Keep in mind that the book is not intended as a complete history or in depth detail on each car, but simply a reference guide to the many models that Lamborghini has made through the years.

I actually have 3 copies, each one as they come out to include updates. I am sure a newer version will be out soon to include such models as the Diablo GT, the 6.0, the 6.0 SE, and now the Murcielago.

This is a good book to get some information on lamborghinis. It has good pictures and specific engine specs.

A rather brief look at Lamborghini up to 1982. Only monochrome pictures, and not very well reproduced. Still, the essential information is here.

The Lamborghini Countach was a shockingly outrageous car when it was first introduced and it was still on the automobile extreme when superseded by the Diablo. This book is a sadly pedestrian attempt to write about so dramatic a car.

This book repeats the standard formula for many such volumes. It contains a lot pretty photographs of the cars and a few simple words on the subject.

The photos are well presented, in good colour and on decent paper, but they are not really special. Mostly, they were obtained by tagging along at owners' club events or getting photographs from the factory. So we see lots of pictures of cars parked in grassy paddocks or being driven carefully on the track by their doting owners but nothing dramatic.

It is the same with the writing. There is a brief history of the company from its beginning to the end of the Countach era and a straightforward description of the car. The history conveys nothing of the drama in the company. The frequent trips to the financial brink, the strike prone labourforce or the Machiavellian twists and turns of the company's ownership.

Similarly, the description of the car tells you a lot about what it is like to look at or maybe to sit in or even to have one parked outside your house but the reader will never get an insight into what it is like to drive one of these cars hard over demanding roads.

If you want the latter, you should read the road tests that appeared in "Car" magazine in the seventies and eighties.

The book also contains some truly cringe inducing technical blunders. An example is the point where the author asserts that the V12 engine has a single cylinder head! The author also believes that the car's sump, clutch housing and gearbox case are part of the unsprung weight! These are by no means the only errors in the text. There are others along with contradictions and typos.

It's out of print and not really worth trying to find a copy. But, it shows up from time in shops that stock remaindered titles for a fraction of the original price and it is just about worth it then.

This book is not worth the paper it is printed on. I found it to be very inacurate and totally uninformative,compared to other books in this category.