RE: New Lancia Stratos Spied In Italy

[clonmult]

Justayellowbadge said:

Now *that* is exactly what an updated version of an old design should be done.

The Beetle, Mini, 500, etc are all utterly pathetic in comparison to this incredible treatment of the Stratos.

If they were to build it - as seen here - would it sell enough though? Would Fiat/Lancia actually be interested in making such a sublime looking vehicle?

[oagent]

Cacatous said:

Justayellowbadge said:

I just did a sex wee

Me too! Heres hoping that its not a one off based on a Ferrari, but the start of something far more down to earth based on more mundane Fiat group components. Alfa V6 power? God I hope so.

[JumpinJack]

Justayellowbadge said:

Looks amazing! EXCEPT... I think the front end could be made to look a little more up-to-date

[funwithrevs]

Justayellowbadge said:

The pictures of the silver car have been seen before, and seem to be a rendering rather than an actual car. The two views have a different amount of offset/dish on the rear coffin spoke wheels.

[kambites]

clonmult said:

Now *that* is exactly what an updated version of an old design should be done.

That tends to be exactly how updated versions of old designs are done... until things like modern safety legislation, manufacturing costs and practicality concerns are taken into account.

[Hairspray]

Tha is bloody stunning. BUT to me the first two pictures looks like shots from a videogame for some reason! Here is hoping it is a real possibility! Would make a nice R8 rival...

[JonRB]

Justayellowbadge said:

Oh dear god. I think I have just has a small accident.

[Stu_00]

Sign me up!!!

[RB26DETT]

For me a new model wouldn't be able to compete with the original.

A new Stratos would have to abide by EU safety regulations and for me it just wouldn't have that feel of living on the edge the same as the original had.
Personaly i think classic names should be left in the past where the belong.
As manufacturers have a high chance of taking away what made the csr special way back then.

[OnTheOverrun]

Some more info in yesterdays thread on this:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Ahonen]

Justayellowbadge said:

Just about perfect.

I'll take mine in lime green, with orange wheels. Or orange with lime green wheels.

Sod it I'll have two.

[DavidCane]

Something about those 'spy' shots looks fishy. They look more like screenshots from a PS3 game than actual photos, almost like a photo of a tv screen with the game (GT5?) playing.

[ToMBoMB]

Justayellowbadge said:

Just had a crisis

[Cotty]

clonmult said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Now *that* is exactly what an updated version of an old design should be done.

Yep looks fantastic

[Caddy93]

Maybe a Ferrari/Fiat/Lancia rival to the Audi R8? It would make sense... look at R8 sales...

[Big E 118]

DavidCane said:

Something about those 'spy' shots looks fishy. They look more like screenshots from a PS3 game than actual photos, almost like a photo of a tv screen with the game (GT5?) playing.

^^^This, especially the 1st photo!

[Chris71]

Justayellowbadge said:

From Bollah's link:

That does look rather good! It's got just enough new design cues to make the retro thing work (as opposed to the Ford GT and new Beetle for example that just look - in purely aesthetic terms - like slightly flawed replicas).

[Paul 8v]

I'd love to see them put it into production, alfa V6 would be a good bet and keep the costs down when compared to a Ferarri engine. Wonder if they'd sell it over here....

Edited by Paul 8v on Wednesday 4th August 13:36

Edited by Paul 8v on Wednesday 4th August 13:39

[clonmult]

Big E 118 said:

DavidCane said:

Something about those 'spy' shots looks fishy. They look more like screenshots from a PS3 game than actual photos, almost like a photo of a tv screen with the game (GT5?) playing.

^^^This, especially the 1st photo!

Some of the latest GT5 footage is close to photographic/studio quality camera work, its damn near impossible to differentiate it from reality.

[RJDM3]

Looks like a computer game TV pic with some photoshop for back ground and drivers added in...looks all wrong