Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "NASCAR Fan Reacts to Lancia Delta S4 Prototype Testing - 1984" video.

  1. I did have a Countach poster but I never liked it, it was a present. I love the original prototype Countach, in yellow, with the louvres for air intakes. It lost it's clean, pure lines because of cooling issue and the wings and wheel arches kept making it worse. My taste developped rapidly in those days, especially under the influence of a book with concepts by Guigiaro, Pininfarina, Bertone and Ghia. So I would get a book about Ferrari as a birthday or St.Nick gift when already my interest had shifted to Maserati and Lamborghini. My uncle got it right though, we didn't speak that often so he had to go by his own taste and brought me a poster, framed with glass, of a Mercedes 300SL roaster. The 80's is an interesting decade and the decade of my teens, but during that I grew very fond of the clean edgy 70's designs, starting in the late 60's, and the 50's with Vignale, Allemano, Frua, Ghia the last coachbuilders with their mad ideas. Even Pininfarina went totally bonkers with a Maserati back then, and Pegaso cars from Spain deserves a mention too. I also love the Art deco era, in both the USA and Europe, Cord 812, Auburn, Hispano-Suiza, coach builders for Talbot and Delahaye like Figoni e Falaschi, Saoutchik, the Buccali V12 front wheel drive for example.
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  2. I think it was designed to compete with the Peugeot 205 and Ford RS200, with all respect to Audi's quattro innovation, it was relatively understeered with the engine up front and up front that much. Peugeot and Ford already went mid-engined, to have a competitive edge on that, Lancia campe up with the volumex-turbo combination to cover 2 rev ranges and have a really big turbo. I think through a cross flow engine but I'm not sure. They even worked on a 800hp successor in the triflux engine, that was with twin turbo's but would steer all the exhaust gases to one turbo to spin that up first. I loved the S4, I just wanted Lancia to win but also because of it's total madness and the odd combination of a little tight, clean elegant design on disproportioned purely functional monster.
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