This Is What It's Like to Live with a Lancia Stratos Every Day

Owning a Lancia Stratos Stradale has to be quite an experience. It was only built because Lancia had to make street versions of its Stratos rally car to homologate it for the World Rally Championship (WRC).

With that in mind, it should surprise no one that, in terms of quality and build, the road-going Stratos fares poor even when compared to a kit car. That’s because it was only an appendix to the rally Stratos, a car built with only one purpose in mind: to win WRC titles. And indeed it did - in 1974, 1975 and 1976.

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Watch the New Stratos Compete in the 2012 Rally Majorca

Michael Stoschek's dream of creating a limited run series of the one-off New Stratos may have gone up in a flash of red smoke after Ferrari officials put a brake on the project, but at least the German entrepreneur is having a blast with the Italian exotic. Read more »