Brochure collection

With all due respect, not a lot.

 

My sentiments as well.

 

Thanks,
I guess I can hold onto it another forty years, LOL

 

Sad now cards only, no hardcover brochures.

 

Alex Barton Hibbs will be depressed at that news...

 

Not sure. Alex may have retired. Richard Veen was also very helpful long ago. Always got a nice 'Ferrari' Christmas card from Richard!

 

The bread & butter for Alex Barton-Hibbs were the press days for the major European Auto salons. When they stopped issuing paper press kits he was more or less out of business.

 

So am I right in assuming there are no further hardcover sales brochures being produced by Ferrari for any of their new cars now?

 

I've never heard of someone making their own version of a sales brochure before.

That's very interesting.

 

On ebay there are softbound brochures for both 12 Cilindri and Purosangue, edited using pictures from press kits. It's clearly stated they are not Ferrari publications, but the publisher (reported as "DIMS") is rather unknown.

 

Maybe there is now a lucrative market for producing "home made" brochures for mad Ferrari literature collectors like us.

 

In the past some Ferrari dealers produced their own brochures. Though more like a multi panel folder than the modern 'book' that the Ferrari factory called a brochure.

 

I appreciate car companies are reducing the amount of brochures they produce in this current environmental climate, but it's sad to think when you buy a US$300,000 plus car you don't have a beautiful sales book to flick through as a nice keepsake of the car

I think of all the cars I've judged at Concorso events that have included the original sales brochure in their items presented on the lawn.

Or the amazing publication by Nathan Beehl and Ronald Stern on the Ferrari sales brochures over the years called The Sales Drive from Maranello.

 

Wow they look impressive from the photos.

Hahahaha.
It just triggered me to get on the phone and dial the Ferrari parts department - but then I reminded myself they are non official publications.
Damn it.

 

While more and more manufacturers do not release printed brochures anymore, they could have had them in pdf (and then it's up to you to print with your desired quality).
Stellantis, Renault, Mercedes, just to name a few, propose downloadable brochures (I do not know if they release limited prints, AFAIK there are no printed brochures at dealers, and they're not available at motor shows either).