GTP Cool Wall: Lancia Stratos. Voting Closed

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Stratos

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This....
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...Sub-Zero! :)
 
Its so sub zero that it didn't even need putting to a vote, it should have just been put on the cool wall.
 
No matter how I look at it it's ugly, no thanks.
 
Just a little too dorky for me. The Delta is much better.
 
Sub Zero. One of the most stunning and exciting rally cars ever produced... and then you could buy them for the road. I'll have my pint of death in lime green please, with gold Campagnolos...

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I was all like "hmmz i do believe this car is sub-zero" but then i thought "My vote gotz no impact lol" so I went with cool to be 12.50% different
 
You should have given the following options only:
[] sub zero
[] sub zero
[] sub zero
[] sub zero

LOL

Honestly: Altough I never drove this car myself it is one of my rallye favorites! In fact I built it myself in scale 1:24... Maybe I'll post a pic later in addition...
 
Sub-zero, and this is why:
niky
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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homeforsummer
Sub Zero. One of the most stunning and exciting rally cars ever produced... and then you could buy them for the road. I'll have my pint of death in lime green please, with gold Campagnolos...

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That is so incredibly ugly, yet so incredibly awesome at the same time I can't even remotely put it into words. If by some miracle of the gods I was able to secure a Stratos, that is how I would want it to look. I guess some cars just pull off ugly colour combination better than others.

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I'm a bit disappointed with the voting. I thought for sure this would get the special all cool section I'm planning. Although I thought the same thing about the classic Mini Cooper and it didn't happen either.
 
Sub-Zero of course. Apart from its absolutely incredible rallying career and the use of a Fezza motor, I seen a very tasty red Stratos with 5-spoke rally-style mags on it at a local car show a couple of years ago. Keep me posted on a picture, my Dad was taking the photos, not me so I have no idea whether he actually has it still.
 
Murcie_LP640
Sub-Zero of course. Apart from its absolutely incredible rallying career and the use of a Fezza motor, I seen a very tasty red Stratos with 5-spoke rally-style mags on it at a local car show a couple of years ago. Keep me posted on a picture, my Dad was taking the photos, not me so I have no idea whether he actually has it still.
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homeforsummer
Using the term "Fezza" for Ferrari should be worthy of infraction points :sly:
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Bah!!! Don't listen to him :p
 
It's a Ferrari engined MR road-legal rally car made by Lancia.
And some were born in 1974. :) Anything born that year is sub-zero! ;)
 
I forgot to give a reason why I think it's sub-zero. It has the same window line as a Skoda Roomster.
 
Sub-Zero

A Ferrari-powered rally monster? A-friggin-mazing.
 
daan
I forgot to give a reason why I think it's sub-zero. It has the same window line as a Skoda Roomster.
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Hehe, another funny Top Gear reference

*points at window line* "That's pure Lancia Stratos, right there!"
 

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