09.05.06 2:51 PM CDT
• Cars
• A.J. Baime
The coffee table book is a strange specimen. Is it meant to be picked up and read? We much prefer to have our feet on our coffee table. Alas, we have discovered a coffee table book worth owning—Lamborghini: A Tempo Furioso (Translated as Lamborghini: Holy Shit These Cars Are Gorgeous and Scary Fast.) An amalgam of stunning photography by Peter Vann and worthwhile homages to the machines and their heritage by Stephan Gruhsem, the book is the opposite of what you would imagine: glamour shots of cars and hackneyed prose about their powerplants. Here you get a sense of the marque’s irreverence, and the nuts and bolts of the industrial side of car production. You get the story behind the first Lamborghini, the 350 GT of 1964; a look back at the Countach of the 70s, the car that made Lamborghini a synonym for exotic; and a sense of how one small region in Italy could give rise to such men as Ferruccio Lamborghini, Enzo Ferrari, and Alfieri Maserati. (In the music world, that's like John, Paul, George, and Ringo all growing up in Liverpool at the same time.) Sure, you’d rather drive one of these machines. But if you’ve got your feet on your coffee table, this is the book you’ll want to be reading. $50, available at Amazon.com
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Alright, that's more like it. I haven't read such authentic Playboy material in a long time. I get the magazines, I just don't read them. As for this article, I laughed so hard that I actually tasted a whiskey I drank some two months ago. Merry Christmas.