Lancia Stratos - car classics

Lancia Stratos

Italian designer Bertone can take the credit for model Stratos, which debuted as a concept at the Turin motor show in Italy in 1970. Inspired by the first model, Bertone presented Stratos HF at the same motor show a year later, it used the V-shaped six-cylinder engine Ferrari. Lancia drew attention to the model, and when in 1973, the company was required to build 500 cars to go to the rally, she hired Bertone to work. Later in the same year Stratos for the first time won the Spanish rally В«FirestoneВ», but these results have been achieved only for the next year, when we completed the production of the necessary quantity of cars for the submission of the application, and Stratos won the first of three world Championships for the rally, which won three years in a row. The success of the model is explained by the fact, how well it was done. It was established protective steel armature in the event of overturning of the vehicle, the engine was held on the rear of the frame, in front of the used linkage suspension with transverse links. In the standard version of the Lancia continued to motor Dino with four shafts and three-chamber carburetor Weber.