EVO: New Lancia Stratos - it's official
#1
08-16-2010, 09:13 AM
EVO: New Lancia Stratos - it's official 
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...
Source [ EVO]
#5
08-16-2010, 10:31 AM
I want one. To bad my bank account doesn't.
What a beautiful design, combine that with the 430Scud engine. This can't be bad.
What a beautiful design, combine that with the 430Scud engine. This can't be bad.
#6
08-16-2010, 11:49 AM
Hands down some of the coolest/most surprising automotive news as of late. Now, let's see the Alitalia edition!!
I believe there was a helmet holder in the original, which is what that is as you noticed.
I believe there was a helmet holder in the original, which is what that is as you noticed.
#7
08-16-2010, 12:13 PM
Sadly though, for lack of a better word, there are most likely thousands of people out there who hold the original Stratos in higher regard than any other car ever made - which means they'll pay just about anything to get their hands on one.
Stoschek must have paid at least 30 mil to get a joint-op one-off modern Stratos made between Pininfarina, Ferrari and Bertone. And the remaining 25 offered to the public will be sold in a heartbeat even for a million a piece. This is not a Ferrari F-something about to get replaced withs something better. This is a one-off. And those kind of smackaroos is more than what I want to spend on it, even though I am probably among the top ten people in the world who want one the most.
Stoschek must have paid at least 30 mil to get a joint-op one-off modern Stratos made between Pininfarina, Ferrari and Bertone. And the remaining 25 offered to the public will be sold in a heartbeat even for a million a piece. This is not a Ferrari F-something about to get replaced withs something better. This is a one-off. And those kind of smackaroos is more than what I want to spend on it, even though I am probably among the top ten people in the world who want one the most.
