Ferrari

75 Years

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Pub Date 11 Jan 2022 | Archive Date 24 Feb 2022

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Description

Celebrate 75 years of Ferrari with this complete, fascinating, and stunningly illustrated history highlighting the company’s legendary sports cars and their worldwide influence.

A stellar combination of beauty, engineering, racing success, exclusivity, and Italian flair combine to make Ferrari the world’s most legendary carmaker. All these traits coalesce in the form of Ferrari’s road cars. No other sports car manufacturer has so consistently set the bar for style and performance. It’s a near unbroken 75-year run of automotive hits:
 
  • The 125S in 1947
  • The versatile 340 in the 1950s
  • The stunning 250s and 275s of the 1960s
  • The Daytona in the 1970s
  • The shocking F40 in the 1990s
  • The modern era’s outrageous hypercars like the Enzo, F8, and LaFerrari

Ferrari: 75 Years dives deep into Ferrari’s sports car history beginning in 1947, but also examines Enzo Ferrari’s early career with Alfa-Romeo before he launched his legendary company.

Automotive historian and photographer Dennis Adler offers Ferrari owners and fans a full and fascinating picture of Maranello’s 75 years of sports car manufacturing. Adler's detailed text is accompanied by his breathtaking photography and supplemented by important historic images.

For 75 years, Ferrari has created high-performance automotive works of art to fire the imaginations of car lovers and performance enthusiasts the world over. Ferrari: 75 Years provides an inspiring and illuminating look back at this history.
Celebrate 75 years of Ferrari with this complete, fascinating, and stunningly illustrated history highlighting the company’s legendary sports cars and their worldwide influence.

A stellar combination...

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ISBN 9780760372098
PRICE US$50.00 (USD)
PAGES 336

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This book does just what is expected of it – providing a fully pictorial history of the famous marque, from the birth of it all as Enzo Ferrari drove for Alfa Romeo, the racing car brand that was apparently shored up in the 1930s by the Italian government who bought shares to keep its prestige afloat. Combining road car use and speedster grunt certainly didn't hinder his own company when it was expanding through the 1950s, but neither did the dubious association with the likes of Keith Moon, seen here perched on a Dino that looks like it's been used as a ball in elephant polo.

Surprises here are few and far between, and are even rarer for a petrol-head I am sure. It is interesting to see the book's interest in who and how got the brand famous in the US. Before that, it's intriguing to see what the cars look like when they're neither red, yellow nor track grey – a pale blue effort just not feeling right, and as for mud brown... The text is almost equally shared between the chronological chapters and the captions to all the wonderful photos, and while you're going to have to wade through all the different engine data, cylinder arrangements and more, that's only par for the course.

It's a braver man than me to declare this as well put together as an F50, but for this type of book it has to be said to be a rampant success. Or, rampante, rather. The price tag may make you feel this is official Ferrari product, when I am sure it is not. It may as well be, considering how pleasant it all is.

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