The Lancia Delta Integrale Is the Greatest Hot Hatch Ever Made
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Date: 2019-10-25
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Stephen Brookes
It is fair to point out that modern high performance variants of regular cars have become much more powerful and race equipped; to the point of being maybe too good to be as much fun as a raw unaided 80s hot car. At the time this was awesomely powerful. If you imagine that my 22 YO son is now driving a Fiesta ST with performance that when I was 22 (1985)would have been reserved for either the millionaires' exotics or the race track. In the 80s Audi Quattros, Renault Turbo 2s and Cosworth Sierras joined the featured cars as the fastest cars not built by Ferrari. So when a younger reviewer looks at a car from my youth, they have much faster contemporary examples to compare it to. The affordable performance cars when I was at school were things like a Vauxhall Firenza or an Escort Mexico. The average Diesel commuter car could now kick one of those into touch. Of course we had Etypes, Bristols, Astons and Jensens if you could afford them and their hunger for repairs.
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It is fair to point out that modern high performance variants of regular cars have become much more powerful and race equipped; to the point of being maybe too good to be as much fun as a raw unaided 80s hot car. At the time this was awesomely powerful. If you imagine that my 22 YO son is now driving a Fiesta ST with performance that when I was 22 (1985)would have been reserved for either the millionaires' exotics or the race track. In the 80s Audi Quattros, Renault Turbo 2s and Cosworth Sierras joined the featured cars as the fastest cars not built by Ferrari. So when a younger reviewer looks at a car from my youth, they have much faster contemporary examples to compare it to. The affordable performance cars when I was at school were things like a Vauxhall Firenza or an Escort Mexico. The average Diesel commuter car could now kick one of those into touch. Of course we had Etypes, Bristols, Astons and Jensens if you could afford them and their hunger for repairs.
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Geoffrey Anderson
215hp 2900 lbs for Lancia specialty car. That's pretty good. I can appreciate a car with rally provenance. Now consider this: 215 hp 2940 lbs for stock 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST, WITH DRIVER at drag strip as weighed on scale. Full content including A/C and all seats and carpets and stereo system. This is the 4G63 engine which won WRC championship, sister car to Evo. Guess what's a better performance car for each dollar you spend. Hint: 19200 dollars for this new Mitsu. Be sure to get no sunroof and FWD to get this weight. Also, keep driver body under 240 pounds, which, when I drove onto the scale at the track, was my weight at the time. Oh, and this Eclipse is also a hatchback. Mountain bike fits in back and the rear seats fold down flat.
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215hp 2900 lbs for Lancia specialty car. That's pretty good. I can appreciate a car with rally provenance. Now consider this: 215 hp 2940 lbs for stock 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST, WITH DRIVER at drag strip as weighed on scale. Full content including A/C and all seats and carpets and stereo system. This is the 4G63 engine which won WRC championship, sister car to Evo. Guess what's a better performance car for each dollar you spend. Hint: 19200 dollars for this new Mitsu. Be sure to get no sunroof and FWD to get this weight. Also, keep driver body under 240 pounds, which, when I drove onto the scale at the track, was my weight at the time. Oh, and this Eclipse is also a hatchback. Mountain bike fits in back and the rear seats fold down flat.
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John Wilkinson
16: 36 it's not that They didn't want to create a door panel It's easier to make a wider rear door that that sort of flows onto the rear fender because the rear of the door separates from the car when you open it, if you make the front doors wider so that the front wing doesn't stop short it would become in conflict with the wing because there would be no room for it to open. Of course you could redesign the the wing and the door and the front of the car to get around that problem but by 1992 Lancia knew that they had come up with one of the hottest looking cars in history and they stuck to the if it ain't broke. -Thirty years on that thing is still gorgeous.
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16: 36 it's not that They didn't want to create a door panel It's easier to make a wider rear door that that sort of flows onto the rear fender because the rear of the door separates from the car when you open it, if you make the front doors wider so that the front wing doesn't stop short it would become in conflict with the wing because there would be no room for it to open. Of course you could redesign the the wing and the door and the front of the car to get around that problem but by 1992 Lancia knew that they had come up with one of the hottest looking cars in history and they stuck to the if it ain't broke. -Thirty years on that thing is still gorgeous.
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paris 81
My dad used to have the earlier 8V version of this car. Story goes that he went to Turin, Italy to pick it up and drove to Bari in order to put it on a ship and bring it to Greece. He had not expected the tolls of the autostrada to be so expensive and arrived on the boat starving, with almost no fuel and exactly 0 money in his pockets. He was so hungry on the boat that he waited at the diner of the ship for some other passengers to finish their meal and then helped himself to their left-over bread. :'D
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My dad used to have the earlier 8V version of this car. Story goes that he went to Turin, Italy to pick it up and drove to Bari in order to put it on a ship and bring it to Greece. He had not expected the tolls of the autostrada to be so expensive and arrived on the boat starving, with almost no fuel and exactly 0 money in his pockets. He was so hungry on the boat that he waited at the diner of the ship for some other passengers to finish their meal and then helped himself to their left-over bread. :'D
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UFOX Fox
Back manual Windows wer common in European cars, but in this wasn't to save money it was to save weight, u shouldn't have an American review European hot hatchs, probably never seen this car in person till this review, and doesn't realise manual mirror wer in most 90s average cars, cus we Europeans don't mind moving our arm to accomplish this, unlike fat lazy yanks who still use the leaf spring shock in 2019, and 8, 7 v8s that wouldnt pull ur pants off,
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Back manual Windows wer common in European cars, but in this wasn't to save money it was to save weight, u shouldn't have an American review European hot hatchs, probably never seen this car in person till this review, and doesn't realise manual mirror wer in most 90s average cars, cus we Europeans don't mind moving our arm to accomplish this, unlike fat lazy yanks who still use the leaf spring shock in 2019, and 8, 7 v8s that wouldnt pull ur pants off,
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Pierre-Andre Labeau
Had the Anniversary one, in white with the Martini racing lines. one of the most fun car Ive ever owned. but it ate its tyres for breakfast - 3 sets in one year before I decided to slide less my turns - and the finition was far from perfect. It never had passengers in the back. I had a vinyl cover to protect the seat and it was reserved for beloved blue Dane. there wasnt anyway any useable legroom.
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Had the Anniversary one, in white with the Martini racing lines. one of the most fun car Ive ever owned. but it ate its tyres for breakfast - 3 sets in one year before I decided to slide less my turns - and the finition was far from perfect. It never had passengers in the back. I had a vinyl cover to protect the seat and it was reserved for beloved blue Dane. there wasnt anyway any useable legroom.
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Spacenick3 hajaj8844
The thing that bothers me most about this video is that he didn't even mention the delta s4 which was one of the fastest rally cars to have ever existed. I think that even though the s4 only used the body of the integrale he should have at least mentioned it. I find it funny how he said it isn't this 2 seater mid engine exotic car, because the s4 was a 2 seater and it was mid engined
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The thing that bothers me most about this video is that he didn't even mention the delta s4 which was one of the fastest rally cars to have ever existed. I think that even though the s4 only used the body of the integrale he should have at least mentioned it. I find it funny how he said it isn't this 2 seater mid engine exotic car, because the s4 was a 2 seater and it was mid engined
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Matt w
The tacho is going clockwise like nearly all other vehicles. A lot of the features of this car are the same as they were for many European cars such as manual rear windows, standard seats and not sport seats. As for the fender flares check out 1980s BMW M3s for wideAs for the steering being precise and you can throw the car around Im guessing you have never driven an original Mini Cooper Mk III.
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The tacho is going clockwise like nearly all other vehicles. A lot of the features of this car are the same as they were for many European cars such as manual rear windows, standard seats and not sport seats. As for the fender flares check out 1980s BMW M3s for wideAs for the steering being precise and you can throw the car around Im guessing you have never driven an original Mini Cooper Mk III.
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taxid3rmy
The Lancia Delta Integrale Evolucione II is not only the greatest WRC car ever made, it's also the coolest and most original. think of all the constructors (OEM competitors) who plagiarised ideas from the Delta Integrale Evo' II, and you have an idea of its legendary and revolutionary greatness(n. b i'm ultra envious of the guy who owns it)
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The Lancia Delta Integrale Evolucione II is not only the greatest WRC car ever made, it's also the coolest and most original. think of all the constructors (OEM competitors) who plagiarised ideas from the Delta Integrale Evo' II, and you have an idea of its legendary and revolutionary greatness(n. b i'm ultra envious of the guy who owns it)
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Michiel Lombaers
You missed one of the craziest quirks of this car. Yes, you can fold down the back seats to get more cargo space but you can't use that for big(ger) boxes because even with the seats folded down and the back shelf removed there's still a sturdy stabilisation bar between the top mounts of the rear suspension in the way.
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You missed one of the craziest quirks of this car. Yes, you can fold down the back seats to get more cargo space but you can't use that for big(ger) boxes because even with the seats folded down and the back shelf removed there's still a sturdy stabilisation bar between the top mounts of the rear suspension in the way.
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