How fast is the Lancia Delta S4 0 to 60?
What made the Delta S4 so special?
The Lancia Delta S4 was a wild, purpose-built Group B rally car. With an extreme mid-engine layout, a supercharged AND turbocharged engine for insane power, and a lightweight composite body, the Delta S4 was both ferocious and technologically groundbreaking. Lancia Delta S4 Stradale: Group B’s Dual-Powered Street Monster The Lancia Delta S4 Stradale, built to homologate Lancia’s Group B rally car, is one of the most radical road-legal cars of the 1980s.
Why was the Delta S4 banned?
Unfortunately, and tragically Toivonen and his co-driver were both killed In the Tour de Corse, and by the end of the year the incredibly fast and dangerous Group B class was banned by the international sporting body, the FIA, and the S4 was withdrawn from competition. The car’s legacy was tainted by the fatal crash of Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto on the 1986 Tour de Corse, where the Finnish driver inexplicably missed a tight left-hand hairpin bend and plunged into a ravine. The car burst into flames immediately, killing both of the crew.