![Formed to Function: An Ode to the Lancia Stratos [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/video_still_113.jpg)
When listing iconic performance cars of the 1970s (Yes, there were quite a few made despite the oil crises and overarching sense of global malaise.), one simply cannot leave out the Lancia Stratos. Seriously, we’ve...
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![The Fast & The Forbidden: 1986-‘92 Lancia Thema 8.32 [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2119lancia_ferrari-335x256.jpg)
Few automotive nameplates have a better batting average of successful joint ventures than Ferrari and Lancia. After Lancia was forced to withdraw from Formula 1 for financial reasons in 1955, the company’s racing operations, including...
Among famous automobiles, the Lancia Stratos is perhaps not as well known as it should be. Maybe because only 492 such cars were ever built between 1972 and 1974. It could also be because the...
The modern formula for a rally car (and its corresponding homologation model for the street) consists of a turbocharged, 2.0L four and all-wheel drive wrapped in a small, nimble package with rather pedestrian pedigree. We...
Just after announcing the Porsche Design Royal Falcon Fleet RFF135 Catamaran, we bring you news of Lancia’s latest aquatic endeavor. All of a sudden it seems like a torrent of auto companies have jumped in...
While the last quarter century saw three of Britain’s most prolific racecar building companies – March, Reynard and Lola – go bust, the last 25 years have been very good to Italy’s foremost builder of...
Mention the phrase “Group B rally car” to typical petrolheads, and their minds’ eyes will immediately conjure images of fire-belching, forced-induction monsters from the likes of Audi, Peugeot, Lancia and Ford. Yet there were many...
![The Fast & The Forbidden: 1993-2000 Fiat Coupé [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fiat_coupe_front-335x256.jpg)
Although Fiat has a pretty long history of building sporty and stylish coupes, it went for quite a long period – specifically, the latter-half of the 1970s and all of the 1980s – without a...
Poll most petroleads for their opinion on front-wheel-drive , and an overwhelming majority will use terms like “lame,” “dull,” “understeer,” torque steer,” “I’d rather chew steel wool,” and so on. Yet automotive history has proven...
The car biz, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, is both incredibly fickle and hellaciously expensive. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear about a manufacturer spending 10 figures to bring a new...