Delta Forza - The Lancia Delta Story

I miss the time when you made a car look sporty by putting 4 round headlights on the front. In fact, that time was before I was born so I MISSED that time

My father used to own a base model, even that had a level of power never witnessed before by us. Sadly, he had to trade it for a more modern car with AC system because of me being born and I will never forgive myself for that.

It's incredible seeing an old Lancia Delta that is not an Integrale on the road: They look like two completely different cars. One is a battered, out of fashion, old italian mid sized hatchback, the other is a beautiful icon with a sporty and beautiful design. PS an an italian, living a couple of kilometers away from where they built the Delta S4, I apprecaite the pronunciation effort.

Heated front seat on a compact way back then? Wow!

What a simply stunning machine. I remember seeing one on Wheeler Dealers so many years ago and thinking yeah, that is forever cool.

My first exposure to the Delta was the Martini liveried rally car on the game Sega Rally which took on the Toyota Celica. I only knew it as a competitive race car.

A mate of mine used to work for Lancia delivering cars around the country including the Evos. I once went along for a ride in a customers Evo 2 that he was taking from London to Bishop's Stortford for a right hand drive conversion. I remember him picking me up outside my house and being utterly terrified when he immediately buried the throttle, the performance at the time was ballistic. I believe Jeremy Clarkson once referred to them as four wheel drive turbocharged thugs.

A legend, we never had Lancia in Brasil but I can feel the spirit from far

Had the HF 4WD, 8v integrale and the 16v integrale too. Regret to this day ever selling them and remains my favourite car of all time, even with its flaws.

The Lancia Beta story would make for a good 5min video. I doubt it would get 200k views, but Betas were an interesting bunch of cars. Cheers Andy.

I am in the US. I have a historic Group N Integrale rally car in Martini livery (though it didn't rally in Martini colors in the day). I recently showed my car in a display of Italian vehicles that was part of a festival on Italian culture. The festival was held in Seattle Center, which is home to the Space Needle, several museums, and a small stadium where some kind of ball game was being played. Lots of the general public not there for the Italian festival went past the vehicle display. The people watching over the vehicle display said that there was a LOT of interest among those passing by in my car, an Integrale Evo, and a Lambo Aventador.

It's a blessing when Big Car uploads. Thanks again for another amazing video!

Being Italian I could not thank you enough for pronouncing correctly the word for spear instead of "the anxiety" (l'ansia). ❤😊

I worked for a Lancia dealer in the early '80s and my firm's car was a Y10 Turbo, which was interesting to say the least. I drove almost all the cars in the range and I the car I remember most was the HF Turbo and the ie version that followed it. Despite having 130, and later 140 bhp it had narrower tyres than the XR3i and RS Turbo yet, still held the road really well and handled brilliantly. I always thought that was down to superior design and engineering. Unfortunately the spectre of the Beta was never far away.

Bought my first lancia in February 1999, at 8v integrale Then replaced it in 2003 with an evo 1 which I still have Nothing puts a smile on my face and ups my heartbeat than this Fantastic car Fantastic video Thanks

I WAS NEVER THAT EARLYYY

Do the Giorgietto Giugiuaro story !!

A cool thing: one of the Delta's design prototypes originated the FSO POLONEZ! FSO was originally planning to put 2.0 liter engine too, but the license to produce it was too expensive so they just adjusted the design with the Polski Fiat chassis.

The delta integrale cabrio was actually owned by the then Fiat CEO Gianni Agnelli

How this marque still survives is bewildering. One model on sale which few people buy and nothing much in the pipeline. It's such a pity that this manufacturer has fallen from such a height considering it made the most beautiful cars back in the day....