Although Peugeot’s 205 T16 ultimately delivered both the Driver and Manufacturer World Rally Championships in 1986, Lancia’s Delta S4 would almost certainly have emerged victorious in both…
Read MoreIn the world of Group A Touring Cars, every twelve months a manufacturer could build batches of 500 Evolution variants (using an already homologated base car) to pave the way for updated…
Read MoreWhile most examples from Lancia’s 200-strong batch of 037s built to homologate the model for Group B competition led a relatively pampered life, a handful were rallied by their owners and a few…
Read MoreAs rallying morphed towards generally shorter, flat out special stages, the cars required to win at the top level became increasingly specialised. However, despite the massive prestige afforded to…
Read MoreOf the myriad Delta Integrale special editions offered during the first half of the 1990s, perhaps the most famous are the Martini variants that mimicked Lancia’s works cars piloted to such great…
Read MoreAs if the paltry 200-car homologation requirement for Group B did not permit sufficiently extreme machinery, manufacturers were permitted to build even more potent Evolution variants from the…
Read MoreDuring a 20 year period from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, the combined efforts of Fiat and its Lancia subsidiary won championship after championship at rallying’s highest level. After the Fulvia…
Read MoreThere’s little better than having a great car with a special history to make it stand out from the crowd. Collector-grade examples of Integrale Evoluziones are already pretty expensive, but this is…
Read MoreIn order to beat the all-conquering Peugeot 205 T16, the engineers at Lancia and its competition arm Abarth had to come up with a remarkable machine that, like its French rival, was designed…
Read MoreOf the myriad special editions offered by Lancia on the Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione platform, arguably the most spectacular was the Evo 1-based Martini 6 produced to celebrate the firm’s sixth…
Read MoreUnlike most manufacturers who simply developed hot versions of existing models to satisfy the minimum production requirements for classes that demanded any significant volume, Lancia’s…
Read MoreAs a consequence of its purebred nature, rear-drive layout and supercharged rather than turbocharged engine, the Lancia Rally provides arguably the best driving experience of all the Group…
Read MoreDuring a seven year stretch between 1987 and 1992, Lancia secured all but two of the 14 World Rally Championship titles up for grabs. Seven consecutive Manufacturer crowns for various iterations of…
Read MoreDespite having been launched back in 1979, Lancia’s compact Delta proved the class of the Group A field during the second half of the 1980s following the FIA’s decision to impose a ban on radical…
Read MoreWith stints in Formula 1 and top flight sports car racing having helped edge Lancia towards bankruptcy, the Turin firm, renowned for its innovative engineering solutions, was sold to the Pesenti…
Read MoreAlthough the likes of Pininfarina, Zagato and Ital Design came up with some memorable creations during the late 1960s and mid 1970s, it was Bertone that emerged as king of the wedge era.
Read MoreThe Evoluzione was Lancia’s last and perhaps most significant technical push to keep the all-conquering Delta HF Integrale at the head of the field in top flight rallying. Launched at the…
Read MoreBy virtue of its extraordinary state-of-art specification and 205 T16-toppling competition record, Lancia’s Delta S4 can legitimately be regarded as the ultimate expression of the legendary Group B…
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