Wanna see a Lancia Delta S4 (as heard in our previous aural pleasuring session) on an indoor kart track? Of course you do.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iApE9CHHcs[/youtube]
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.
Hey Top Gear, You Forgot The Lancia Delta S4
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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.
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Mitch…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LANCIA-DELTA-EVOLU…
Buy it
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I think road cars on kart tracks is the hoon's equivalent to meat on a stick.
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I thought that meat on a stick WAS the hoon's equivalent.
Also, Jesus, did you hear that turbo? Thats some shits right there.
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The S4 was not designed, it was engineered.
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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?
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Don't forget the number on the door. Heh heh.
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Clarkson and Hammond thought they we being so edgy with the Arse Biscuits BMW racecar. Hah!
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Not lobsters……."speed crustaceans"
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Watch the headlight pots through the entire video. Are we looking at two different cars? Did someone shunt halfway through filming?
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These cars are freakin' insane. They sound like a bag of cats being thrown into a washing machine set on Spin.
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[…] 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 […]
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[…] 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 […]
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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
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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
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