Wanna see a Lancia Delta S4 (as heard in our previous aural pleasuring session) on an indoor kart track? Of course you do.
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Forget about names and credentials. Looking at the spec sheet alone, the Lancia Delta S4 is perhaps one of the most fantastic cars ever produced. Nearly 600hp from a turbocharged and supercharged 1.8-liter engine mounted in the middle and driving all four wheels of a 2700-lb car? Lunacy. Oh, and they made a road-legal “Stradale” version you could take home too. Some might use the phrase “jaw-dropping” to describe the S4, but I think “laughter-inducing” is more accurate. I know Top Gear failed to mention the S4 on their recent tribute to Lancia, but while not as cool as the Stratos, I think the S4 is the most striking Lancia ever.
Jeff Glucker
Sweet leaping Jeebus, that was a beautiful sound.
I'm starting to wonder if it's unhealthy, just how much I love the sound of a well-tuned engine.
Not at all. Huffing the exhaust pipe of said engine might get you into trouble though.
Mitch…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LANCIA-DELTA-EVOLU…
Buy it
I think road cars on kart tracks is the hoon's equivalent to meat on a stick.
I thought that meat on a stick WAS the hoon's equivalent.
Also, Jesus, did you hear that turbo? Thats some shits right there.
The S4 was not designed, it was engineered.
You kids and your Group B rally cars…(shakes cane at the internet). The Lancia that deserved some Top Gear props was the Aurelia. 1st car with a production V6 engine, you know. Fangio owned one. So did Mike Hawthorn.
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Also apparently the only production car equipped with lobsters hanging on to the front bumper?
Don't forget the number on the door. Heh heh.
Clarkson and Hammond thought they we being so edgy with the Arse Biscuits BMW racecar. Hah!
Not lobsters……."speed crustaceans"
Watch the headlight pots through the entire video. Are we looking at two different cars? Did someone shunt halfway through filming?
These cars are freakin' insane. They sound like a bag of cats being thrown into a washing machine set on Spin.
[…] Eh, it needs work. Whatever you want to call it, a similar induction setup to the Lancia Delta S4 has been fitted to another hardcore mid-engined plastic car. The ensemble of blower whine, turbo […]
[…] Eh, it needs work. Whatever you want to call it, a similar induction setup to the Lancia Delta S4 has been fitted to another hardcore mid-engined plastic car. The ensemble of blower whine, turbo […]
I am reading this article second time today, you have to be more careful with content leakers. If I will fount it again I will send you a link
have a look at the ECV1 the "never raced" successor
http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/02/the-triflux/
this is italian technology superiority….for real and not just pretended