GTP Cool Wall: Lancia Stratos. Voting Closed

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Stratos

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.: 1972-1974* Lancia Stratos suggested by X-DEVIL7675 :.

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Specs:
Configuration Ferrari Dino Type 246 65º V 6
Location Mid, transversely mounted
Displacement 2.418 liter / 147.6 cu in
Valvetrain 2 valves / cylinder, DOHC
Fuel feed 3 Weber 40 IDF Carburettors
Aspiration Naturally Aspirated

Drivetrain
Chassis/body fibreglass body on steel monocoque
Front suspension double wishbones, coil springs, telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
Rear suspension McPherson struts, lower wishbones, coil springs, telescopic dampers, anti-roll bar
Steering rack-and-pinion
Brakes discs, all-round
Gearbox Ferrari 5 speed Manual
Drive Rear wheel drive

Dimensions
Weight 980 kilo / 2160.5 lbs

Performance figures
Power 190 bhp @ 7000 rpm
Torque 167 ft lbs @ 4000 rpm
Power to weight 0.19 bhp / kg
Top Speed 130 mph
0-60 mph 6.0 s



*A 1977 Stratos was nominated but the road car was only produced between 72-74 per everything I've found on the internet. It appears the race car was produced longer though. ​
 
Regardless of the Ferrari engine, it has everything a cool car has in my book: success, performance and style. 👍

Sub-Zero.
 
It gets a good nod from me, it's got the styling, the engine, and the rally car reputation, but it doesn't have that "HOLY:censored:" factor.

COOL
 
Best...Dino...application...EVER.

Do I even have to say it aloud? This car is nearing Zero...KELVIN.
 
It looks outlandishly alien, is available in eye-searing and aesthetically criminal colors, is about as easy to drive as a rodeo horse (and just as likely to kill you) and is one of the best rally cars of all time.

And while you might convince your wife that a Delta Integrale or a Mitsubishi Evo is a "practical" buy or that that old Ferrari is an "investment"... there's no way you'd get this one past her without getting divorce papers or a kitchen knife embedded in your skull.

This car is so far below sub-zero that it doesn't exist on a quantum level. It violates the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in that the very fabric of the universe around it is frozen in place.
 
Irons
It gets a good nod from me, it's got the styling, the engine, and the rally car reputation, but it doesn't have that "HOLY:censored:" factor.

COOL
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Rotary Junkie
Nah it should just become a bannable offense to not vote sub-zero on this car.
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So, six of us so far risk being banned?

I don't get it. What makes this car Sub-Zero? I must be missing something. It doesn't strike me as Sub-Zero, just Cool. (I can already see people crying "Blasphemy" over this)

Honestly, I don't see what's so awesome and brutal about it. Someone clue me in because I'm curious.
 
the fact that this thing get to be SO sub-zero, even when powered by a putrid ferrari engine, has to speak volumes about it.
 
Irons
So, six of us so far risk being banned?

I don't get it. What makes this car Sub-Zero? I must be missing something. It doesn't strike me as Sub-Zero, just Cool. (I can already see people crying "Blasphemy" over this)

Honestly, I don't see what's so awesome and brutal about it. Someone clue me in because I'm curious.
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The Stratos was one of the first rally cars (and probably one of the only) built from the ground up to go rallying... it was a marriage of Fiat money, Bertone styling and Ferrari engines.

The car is completely no-nonsense in its rallying focus. Wrap-around windshield for maximum forward visibility. Absolutely no rear visibility. Mid-engined to give it incredibly sharp handling. They also made it tricky to drive at the limit. It won the world championship multiple times and won a whole lot more races in privateer hands. That such a stupidly hardcore car was available for road use was phenomenal.

The sale of the Stratos to private buyers would be like Ferrari today building a Formula One car with fenders and turn signals and trying to pass it off as road-legal.

That makes it subzero.
 

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