RE: The Stratosferica: KTM Meets Lancia Legend
Wednesday 24th August 2011
The Stratosferica: KTM Meets Lancia Legend
Yes, it is as weird as it sounds...
Question: How do you get hold of a Lancia Stratos, when you have the funds neither to buy an original, nor to create your own version with the help of Pininfarina a la Michael Stoschek?
Well, you could go the traditional replica route and get a Hawk Stratos.
Or you could follow a more - er - eccentric path and get yourself the car you see in these pictures and videos.
It's called the Stratosferica, and to get it you have to equip yourself with a KTM X-bow (no mean feat if you're buying used as you'll see from our man Silversixx's story) and take it to Italian carrozzeria Montenergy, who will make it look like this for the princely sum of 12,000 euros (£10.5k).
And if you fancy a bit more poke, you can also get the engine tweaked up to 310bhp...
Discussion
What a strange idea.
I do quite like the quasi-Stratos retro looks, but you could get a very close replica made by someone like Hawk for way less than the cost of a new X-Bow, if that's what you wanted. To me the appeal of the X-Bow is its zaniness, if it's just a rolling chassis hidden under a replica body, surely you could get something fast and reasonably well screwed together elsewhere?
I do quite like the quasi-Stratos retro looks, but you could get a very close replica made by someone like Hawk for way less than the cost of a new X-Bow, if that's what you wanted. To me the appeal of the X-Bow is its zaniness, if it's just a rolling chassis hidden under a replica body, surely you could get something fast and reasonably well screwed together elsewhere?
harryowl said:
smash said:
alexpa said:
Looks better than the x-bow.
I agree, but not a difficult achievement!The downside is the additional weight of the bodywork and fixings (+100-150kg im guessing), which kind of betrays the object of the original car.
With the Hawk Stratos you can also fit the lovely sounding Alfa 3lt V6!
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