Maserati Heritage (Osprey Classic Marques)

Rating:
Summary: Only a picture book, and not a great one.
Review: This is a loosely organized overview of Maseratis through 1995, concentrating primarily on road cars. It's primarily a picture book, and its lack of substantive historical or technical data is frustrating. The pictures are of high quality, but they're repetitive (even if you're a Maserati fanatic, how many lovingly photographed close-ups of the Maserati trident badge do you need) and they omit a lot of interesting models -- the saloons are particularly neglected. It's not clear for whom this book is intended. There's not enough information to constitute either a history or a buyer's guide, and if all you want is pretty pictures, there are other books that provide them and more content to go with them.