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- 2008
- Issue 16: Nov/DecNov/Dec Issue 16
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2. - Issue 15: OctoberOctober Issue 15
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2. - Issue 14: SeptemberSeptember Issue 14
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2. - Issue 13: AugustAugust Issue 13
1. New Website Launches
2. Maserati Looks Fine in '09 - Issue 12: JulyJuly Issue 12
1. Nothing But Blue Skies
2. Theme Parks - Issue 11: JuneJune Issue 11:
1. California Dreamin
2. Lamborghini Grand Opening - Issue 10: MayMay Issue 10:
1. Steering Toward the Next Apex
2. WV Costly for Car Owners - Issue 9: AprilApril Issue 9:
1. Ferrari F149 GT A Go
2. LP560-4, Gran Turismo S - Issue 8: MarchMarch Issue 8:
1. A Case For Space
2. Killer Cinqueporte - Issue 7: FebruaryFebruary Issue 7:
1. Articolo: Detroit, Etc.
2. New Year, New Design - 2007
- Issue 6: DecemberDecember Issue 6:
1. New Track for '08 Challenge
2. Sequel: 'FXX Reloaded' - Issue 5: NovemberNovember Issue 5:
1. GranTurismo Here Now
2. Tips for Winter Storage & Driving - Issue 4: OctoberOctober Issue 4:
1. Italians Rock the House at Frankfurt
2. Baltimore Grand Opening - Issue 3: SeptemberSeptember Issue 3:
1. Future Ferrari is Lean and Green
2. Dealerships, Track Events Grow - Issue 2: AugustAugust Issue 2:
1. To Be Driven and Driven Its Been
2. War Changes Everything - Issue 1: JulyJuly Issue 1:
1. Road Cars, Racing, and Maserati
2. In Change is Opportunity
FMoW 2005-07
- 2007
- JuneVol 14 No 6
1. Bennett Sets Record
2. Raduno Primavera Recap - MayVol 14 No 5
1. M.O.B. Now Open
2. The Racing Line - AprilVol 14 No 4
1. Gran Turismo
2. MC12 Carbon Copy - MarchVol 14 No 3
1. 612 Scaglietti Celebrates 60
2. Pre-Owned Maserati Cert. - FebruaryVol 14 No 2
1. Ferrari Innovation Pays Off
2. 612 Scaglietti GTC - JanuaryVol 14 No 1
1. QP Automatic Arrives
2. Hibernation Rituals Rethought - 2006
- DecemberVol 13 No 12
1. 20,000M To Prove A Point
2. Alfa's U.S. Reintroductoin - NovemberVol 13 No 11
1. Maserati Shines at Monterey
2. Perfect Gift Solutions - OctoberVol 13 No 10
1. Ferrari's Going Everywhere
2. GranSport Spyder Secret - SeptemberVol 13 No 9
1. Service Records Add Value
2. Synergy's Unique Value - AugustVol 13 No 8
1. Retro 612s
2. Maserati Hits High Notes - JulyVol 13 No 7
1. Curiosity, Luck and the Coppa
2. Sucking Air Mysteries - JuneVol 13 No 6
1. 599 Acceleration Evolution
2. Sport GT Tweaks - MayVol 13 No 5
1. Ferrari Individuality Returns
2. Raduno Primavera Blossom - AprilVol 13 No 4
1. 599 Technology Transfer
2. Building The Maserati Niche - MarchVol 13 No 3
1. Classic Ferrari Preservation
2. Honors, Prestige Goes To QP - FebrauryVol 13 No 2
1. 599 GTB
2. 2005 Maserati Strides - JanuaryVol 13 No 1
1. Challenge Evolution
2. Future Ferraris - 2005
- DecemberVol 12 No 12
1. Ferrari Takes China
2. Tifosi Days and Holidays - NovemberVol 12 No 11
1. GG50 Concept Car
2. Ferrari Innovation Goals - OctoberVol 12 No 10
1. 360 Challenge GT
2. Blind Man, Maserati Set Record
LW 2005-07
- 2007
- JuneVol 3 No 6
1. Murcielago Superleggera
2. Raduno Recap - MayVol 3 No 5
1. Gallardo at Strathmore Hall
2. The Racing Line - AprilVol 3 No 4
1. Faster Is Better
2. Lamborghini Old School - MarchVol 3 No 3
1. Gallardo 5,000th Milestone
2. Gallardo Hits Box Office Gold - FebruaryVol 3 No 2
1. Gallardo Spyder: Perfect Dream
2. Lamborghini Production Up - JanuaryVol 3 No 1
1. LP640 Roadster, Still Extreme
2. Gallardo: Italian GT3 Title - 2006
- DecemberVol 2 No 12
1. Gallardo Vs. Porsche
2. Gallardo Dominates and Sets Records - NovemberVol 2 No 11
1. Feeding the Aficionado's Mind
2. LP640 Versace: The Perfect Gift - OctoberVol 2 No 10
1. LP640 Darwinism
2. All-Star Gallardo Nets Big Bucks - SeptemberVol 2 No 9
1. We Drive The LP640
2. Miura Prices On The Rise - AugustVol 2 No 8
1. LP640: Power Generation
2. Keeping an Egear Sharp - JulyVol 2 No 7
1. LP640 In The Navy
2. Gallardo GTR at Nurburgring - JuneVol 2 No 6 ???
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2. - MayVol 2 No 5
1. Murcielago At 2000
2. May 7th: The Beginning - AprilVol 2 No 4
1. A Long Time Coming
2. Murcielago Draws First Blood - MarchVol 2 No 3
1. LP640, New King of the Hill
2. 2005 Goal Achieved - FebrauryVol 2 No 2
1. Concept M: Revisiting the Miura
2. Spyder Makes DC Debut - JanuaryVol 2 No 1
1. Enbracing The Radical Within
2. Gallardo Starts Victory Hunt - 2005
- DecemberVol 1 No 8
1. Lamborghini Success and Costs
2. Lamborghini Stuff - NovemberVol 1 No 7
1. Lamborghini's Under The Hammer
2. Murcielago On Steroids - OctoberVol 1 No 6
1. Simply Revolutionary
2. Going Hollywood
Newsletter Awards
2008 Communicator Silver Awards
Writing, Feature Article, Design, Overall Newsletter
2007 MarCom Gold Award
Newsletter Writing
Alfabama
Written: February 1, 2008
Alfa Romeo will open a factory somewhere in the US, Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne forecasts. Given the dollar’s weakness against the euro, a manufacturing beachhead here is vital if Alfa’s impending return to the North American market is to succeed, Marchionne explains. Even then, the Canadian-Italian mogul says, the ...
Azzam Altahir Joins Maserati of Washington
Written: February 4, 2008
There are three things you should know straight away about our newest sales advisor, Azzam Altahir: he was born and raised in Baghdad, he’s nuts about drop-tops, and although he comes from a family of physicians, what goes on in hospitals makes him squeamish. These matters are related.
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Bastards: Mustardo
Written: February 6, 2008
Across the Universe in Bizzaro World – Why anyone would want a car like this much less actually go to the considerable trouble to build it, we don’t know. But a guy from Cleveland wedged perfectly good Gallardo mechanicals under a Mustang body. (Note the half-hearted Gallardo treatment at the ...
Detroit: Ferrari BioFuel
Written: February 9, 2008
Down in Maranello, 6,400 Ferraris left the factory last year, 8 percent more than the previous year and an all-time record. But in a sign Ferrari is looking ahead to future challenges, in Detroit they showed the F430 Spider Bio Fuel. Although Maranello doesn’t do concept cars as a rule, ...
Detroit: Maserati QP Cento, Sport GT
Written: February 11, 2008
Not to be outdone at Detroit, Maserati unveiled the Quattroporte Collezione Cento. For the Latin-challenged, the name means this special edition of the Maserati flagship will be limited to 100 individually numbered examples. The Cento receives unique ivory paint and tufted Poltrona Frau leather seats in Cuoio (rich tan). Onboard ...
Detroit: Rampaging Bull
Written: February 8, 2008
Lamborghini showed off a Gallardo Spyder and nearly-matching LP640s (Spyder and Coupé) at Detroit in new colors now available through the Ad Personam personalization program. The Gallardo wore Marrone Apus, a brown-black hue in matte finish à la the Reventón. Like that car’s signature Grey Barra color, Marrone Apus ...
Ferrari First: Ceramic Brakes Standard on Entire L
Written: February 12, 2008
Whether on an ambling two-lane or rowdy road coarse, going fast is as much about late braking as anything else. The longer you carry speed into a corner, the harder you must brake before turn-in, and so the hotter the brakes. (In physical terms, braking simply converts kinetic energy to ...
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Ferrari Launches F2008 Rocket
Written: February 12, 2008
Ferrari revealed its F2008 Formula 1 car last month. Outwardly anyway, it does not appear to be the big change the F2007 car was from the previous year’s. But technical director Aldo Costa characterized the car as “completely new, even though you can’t make radical changes because of the regulations.” ...
FIA GT Preview
Written: February 13, 2008
The FIA GT Championship series, won in GT1 by Maserati and by Ferrari in GT2 last season, will evolve into separate championships, the FIA World Motorsports Council decided. In 2010 there will be a world championship for GT1 cars and a European championship for GT2, the latter effectively replacing the ...
History on the Head of a Pin
Written: February 16, 2008
The Ferrari Store is offering a collection of enameled brass pins featuring the 60 graphics created from company annals for last year’s anniversary celebration. A different graphic graces each of the 60 anniversary-edition 612 Scagliettis produced. The pin set is mounted on a wooden backing covered in red silk. Below ...
HRAG Steals the Shows
Written: February 19, 2008
HRAG cars stole the show at Virginia Beach and again at the DC Convention Center last month. A video of the earlier event starts with a lingering montage of our Italian supermodels. You may view that video at the link below, but only after watching a short commercial. With luck, ...
I Left It Here Somewhere
Written: February 14, 2008
Hedge fund principal Bertrand Des Pallieres is a busy guy, what with about $350 million under management. So he keeps a Maserati Coupé parked in congested downtown London for quick getaways. Or so he thought. Some time had passed since his last motoring, and when he went to retrieve the ...
Lamborghini Headlines Pebble
Written: February 18, 2008
Pebble Beach organizers are singing Italian. They named Lamborghini and Lancia as honored marques for this year’s concours. “Fantastic styling, an impressive race history and innovative engineering are earmarks of Lancia’s more than 100 years of automotive manufacturing,” says, concours chairperson Sandra Kasky Button. “Lamborghini, the ‘bad boy’ from Italy, ...
Maseratis FIA GT championship, 50 Years On
Written: February 20, 2008
Maserati is celebrating its glorious 2007 FIA GT championship season on the web. Like last year’s effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Juan Manuel Fangio’s fabled world championship in a 250F, the newly dedicated site is a masterful blend of multimedia that chronicles Maserati’s assault on the crown.
MoB: Jack Davis Named GM
Written: February 18, 2008
Jack Davis has been named general manager at Maserati of Baltimore. Jack moves from Maserati of Washington, where he had been a sales advisor since 2004. “Sure, I’ll miss it. I enjoy sales and interacting with people,” Jack says. “But really, that hasn’t changed. I’ll still talk with everyone who ...
NBC Reaches for Top Gear
Written: February 20, 2008
Ripping off British television seems a popular expedient for American networks these days. For example, NBC has done well with The Office, a remake of the BBC original and Thursday night staple here. Now the network will attempt to replicate Top Gear, that over-the-top and oh-so-British program. Hollywood Reporter says ...
New Year, New Design
Written: February 28, 2008
<p>Happy New Year from High Road Auto Group. If that strikes you as belated, recall that La Strada Maestra was on hiatus last month. Our purpose was to retool the newsletter in that time. The boss wanted something “more scannable” and has provided four more pages of real estate in ...
Short Fill
Written: February 19, 2008
Our expanded format allows mention of the kind of interesting trifles that got crowded out heretofore. In this category we include web videos. These have been out awhile, so forgive us if you’ve seen them. The links follow.
The Alfa 8C Competizione commercial tugs at your heartstrings ...
Speaking of Pinheads
Written: February 27, 2008
Craig and Sondra Harrington named their child Lexus after deciding Porsche didn’t go so well with Marie, the middle name of choice. Lexus may rhyme with their home state of Texas, but the inspiration was in fact more serendipitous. “When I said no to Porsche, [Craig] looked up and saw ...
Winter Blues, Italian Style
Written: February 1, 2008
We’ll admit that winter isn’t the best time for gearheads. But if you’ve got the mopes this season, Prozac may be your only hope. Because after what was surely among the best years ever for Italian supercar fans, indications are the best is yet to come. Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini ...
