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Ferrari's road cars". To summarise it, they described the book as "at best, an overpriced and entirely missed opportunity. At worst, it is a cynical exploitation of two famous names that fails to come within a light year of doing justice to either." They criticised many of the photographs in the book as "seem to be little more than snaps; some, staggeringly, are not even truly in focus while others appear to be poor quality duplicates blown up far beyond their modest capabilities" in addition as too many of them as "just plain boring".
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