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Lamborghini: At the Cutting Edge of Design
by Gautam Sen with Branko Radovinovic and Kaare Byberg
NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE!
 It has been said that “Lamborghini is a carmaker that makes engines, the job of the designers was to design the engine cover.” Yet, in its almost six decades long history, the supercar maker has constructed just four different engines.
However, it has been a series of models with remarkable, groundbreaking shapes, each one a veritable design revolution that has really set Lamborghini ahead of other marques. Cars like the Miura, Espada, Urraco, Countach and the Diablo astounded and startled automotive fans as much with their daring shape, form and aesthetic purity, as they did with their second-to-none engineering.
This book celebrates the design history of Lamborghini through numerous period reports and previously unpublished images. It delves into the extraordinary shapes and forms, as well as the intrepid personalities with interviews of design greats—Marcello Gandini, Luc Donckerwolke, Walter de Silva, Filippo Perini and Mitja Borkert—who made Lamborghini what it is today.
- 2 volumes with dust jackets in slipcase
- 784 pages
- 1,070 images
- Four fold-outs
- 219mm x 304mm
- ISBN: 978-1-85443-317-6
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Interview with Gautam Sen, Branko Radovinovic and Kaare Byberg
AutoMobilia Resource magazine review:
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Octane Germany reviews the Lamborghini book
 Text in English:
Probably no sports car brand is as polarized in terms of design like
Lamborghini. That was in the days of the Countach, so is it with the SUV Urus or
the ultra-flat wedges Huracán and Aventador to this day. India's leading motor journalist,
Gautam Sen (based in Paris), has now with his comrades-in-arms Radovinovic (Australia)
and Byberg (Norway) for the first time published a double volume about the design
of the sports car manufacturer founded in 1963 by the tractor manufacturer Ferruccio
Lamborghini as a competitor to Ferrari. With chapters on the founding history of
the tractor factory and the start of sports car production with the first model
350 GTV, it celebrates the mammoth work with many previously unpublished images
and sketches of all the icons – from the Miura via Espada and Countach to the cars
of modern times that were finally created under Audi direction. Especially worth
reading are interviews with design giants such as Marcello Gandini, Luc Donckerwolke,
Walter de Silva, Filippo Perini and the current design chief, Mitja Borkert. A special
treat form four fold-out pages – one with the cover of an early Diablo brochure,
another with original drawings of the Miura. Further chapters shed light on the
role of the design studios of Bertone and Touring, all concept studies and not realized
projects from the 1990s. For the finale, there is the remake of the Countach in
great detail, the LPI 800-4 to marvel at. If this overwhelming work at all can chalk
something up, then it's the not consistently high-quality images and the overlong
passages in which citing contemporary articles on Lamborghini from English-language
specialist magazines. But that's a maximum of one blemish – otherwise everyone,
who enjoys reading chapter by chapter mind leads, in the end understands what makes
up the myth of Lamborghini. Not just the V12 and V10 engines, but a design that
never shied away to defy the mainstream.
Pete Vack of VeloceToday.com reviews Lamborghini: At the Cutting Edge of Design:
Click the link to read Volume One review and here to read Volume Two
A second review by AustroClassics: https://www.austroclassic.net/alle-hefte/2022/03/b...
Translated:
Gautam Sen, India's No. 1 automotive expert, and his colleagues Radovinovic and Byberg have produced a truly impressive work - two volumes, 784 pages, 1,070 illustrations - with these two volumes in a slipcase on Lamborghini.
In unprecedented detail, the authors focus on the design of all series models from the 350 GT to the Urus and also the numerous studies.
The book is complemented by chapters on the people behind the cars - from Ferruccio Lamborghini to Walter de Silva, from Franco Scaglioni to Luc Donckerwolke.
A comprehensive index and bibliography conclude the work.
Rating: Rating 4 out of 4
AutoZeit magazine reviewClick the image for a larger size of the German version, or here for the translated text to English (PDF will open in a new page).
Automobil Revue magazine reviewClick the image for a larger size of the German version, or here for the translated text to English(PDF will open in a new page).
Classic Cars magazine reviewClick the image for a larger size.
Zwischengas reviewClick the image for a larger size, or here for the translated text to English (PDF will open in a new page).
Car Design News articleClick the image for a link to the article on the Car Design News website, or here for a PDF.
L'Automobile MagazineClick the image for a link for a larger size (in French), or here for a PDF in English.
Lamborghini International Owners Club
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Austro Classics magazine published a shortened version of the Bravo chapter. Also included is an interview with Gautam Sen.
 Click the image for a link for the German PDF, here for the interview portion in English, and here for the Bravo article text in English.
AutoMobiliaResource review:
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Auto Italia July 2022 review:
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Thank you, Sabu Advani, from Speedreaders.info, for the great review.
Click the image to read the review on the Speedreaders page.
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Author Biography
Gautam Sen
Fascinated by model cars and automobiles since he was a young boy, Gautam Sen turned his passion into a career. He established India’s first newsstand automobile magazine Indian Auto in 1986, followed by Auto India in 1993, and then the Indian editions of the German magazine auto motor und sport and BBC’s TopGear magazines. Sen has also been involved with the Indian automobile industry, working with Maruti Udyog as well as several other prominent automobile companies, and was instrumental in the design and development of India’s first sports car, the San Storm. Whilst working on several design projects, Sen had the privilege of collaborating with eminent designers such as Gerard Godfroy, Marcello Gandini and the late Tom Tjaarda.
Since 2015, Sen has been a Vice President with FIVA (Fédération Internationale de Véhicules Anciens). He has also been a member of the jury at several prestigious historic vehicle events such as Le Mans Classic, Chantilly Arts & Elegance, Pays de Fougères International Rally and YanQi Concours d’Elegance. Sen has authored several critically acclaimed books on automobiles: The Maharajas & Their Magnificent Motor Cars, The Car Design Book, Rolls- Royce 17EX: A Fabulous Destiny, A Million Cars for a Billion People, The 101 Automotive Jewels of India, Marcello Gandini: Maestro of Design, The Bertone Collection, Ballot, and Tom Tjaarda: Master of Proportions (the last five published by Dalton Watson Fine Books).
Branko Radovinovic
Born in 1966, in Melbourne, Australia, Branko Radovinovic came across a Panini card featuring a blue Lamborghini Countach when he was nine years old, which looked like nothing else, and exerted a magical attraction on him. This was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with car design in general and Lamborghini in particular. Through photographing, meeting key people and collecting original automobilia, he has gathered an extensive Lamborghini archive. He also writes for the Lamborghini club mags in Germany and the US, as well as various European car mags. Branko’s wish has always been to share his passion for Lamborghini through emotions that flow from the eye directly into the heart.
Kaare Byberg
Born in 1979 in Stavanger, Norway, Kaare (Kåre) Byberg has been fascinated by Lamborghini since he was ten when he came across a Countach scale model at the local gas station. Since then he has always had the desire to be surrounded by all things Lamborghini. As a result, Kaare has collected each and every of the official brochures, as well as countless other Lamborghini-related automobilia and material. Unsurprisingly, the Countach still reigns supreme in his automotive heart and mind.
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