wow this looks quite cool! I saw it posted up on Jalopnik: jalopnik.com/5612430/the-new-lancia-stratos-says-hi


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Anyone know much about it?

Details of a new Lancia Stratos started to leak out a few weeks ago after one was spotted testing at Fiat’s Balocco test track back in July. This car turned out to be a one-off special, which a wealthy entrepreneur involved in the Automotive supply industry had commissioned Pininfarina to build, requesting them to design a modern recreation of his favourite car of all time, the legendary Lancia Stratos.

This is a dream he (Michael Stoschek) had been pursuing since 2003, first by participating financially in the unsuccessful Fenomenon Stratos project, which presented a concept Stratos for the first time at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show. When this project eventually came to nothing, Stoschek decided to commission Pininfarina to build a one-off vehicle just for himself and his son, Maximilian, to use instead, using a shortened Ferrari 430 Scuderia chassis as the basis for the project.

Doing the dynamic testing on the almost finished car is ex-Formula One driver, Tiago Monterio, and the feedback he gave after the test at the Balocco test track was that the car had fully lived up to the high expectations Stoshek had originally set the team back in 2008.

The car is built entirely from carbonfibre and only weighs 1240kg (around 108 kilos lighter than the donor Ferrari Scuderia), with the weight being equally distributed front and rear. With the 430 Scuderia's 4.3-litre V8 engine pushing out 503bhp, this gives the car a power-to-weight ratio of 413bhp/ton.

For comparison, the original Lancia Stratos produced 190bhp from its 2.4-litre Ferrari V6 engine and had a kerb weight of 980kg, meaning 197bhp/ton, so this new Stratos should prove massively quicker than the original road car ever was.

Stoschek has given Pininfarina the go-ahead to explore the opportunity of building up to 25 examples of this new Stratos, so if you fancy one too, then you’ll need very deep pockets as we hear the expected price will run well into hundreds of thousands of pounds. It’s very pretty though...

www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/255988/new_la...os_its_official.html

First I have heard of it but all I can say is, wow, wow and another wow for good measure.

I am WELL impressed with the styling. It's really modern and very aggressive looking yet still very true to the original. If you saw it on the street, you would know what it is. Not sure it would appeal to everyone, but I think its a pretty good looking!

I really like the pic of the old against the new. Shows just how similar they are.

Looking forward to seeing more of this.

Fair play on the info Dave.

So seems it is a one off provate project for now, but possibly there will be up to 25 more made? Hmmmm..

What if www.mr2.ie got together and approached Pininfarina to commission a modern MKII, ie, same basic shape and lines, but totally up to date, with a Ferrari 430 Scuderia, 4.3 litre, 503bhp engine. Holy SHITE! WHAT would that be like huh? And a body shell, COMPLETELY made of CF! oOOooooooOOoooOOOoooohhhhhhhh....I would love it be left raw CF, just laquered up nice.....jeeeeeeeeeezee ....shudders.....

That would be something that I would DEFFO buy, if I could afford it
I would love to even see some concept art of a new MKII.

Best looking car I seen thie year. C'mon Euromillions

Not joking but I think I see a bit of mk1 when I look at it

Lovely motor

After reading that, I had another look and Spidey, you are bang on the money mate. It's more like a modern day Mk1 than anything, specially the 3rd pic down. Pretty cool.

SWAGGER wrote:
After reading that, I had another look and Spidey, you are bang on the money mate. It's more like a modern day Mk1 than anything, specially the 3rd pic down. Pretty cool.

Careful - we don't want to give the mk1 owners a superiority complex

Oops, hehhehehee sorry!