Car Sites. Jalopnik, DRIVE || similar. Tributes. Italiaspeed.com. Almost a quarter of a century after its creation, the Lancia ECV1, which shattered even the huge technological advances being made right at the climax of the Group B era, will finally make its rallying debut over the weekend during Rally Legend 2010 in San Marino.
By the time the ECV1, dressed in Martini factory livery, was revealed at the 1986 Bologna Motor Show, it was already a dinosaur, consigned to the pages of history before even turning a wheel. The era of the Group B cars was set to come to a close at the end of that year, and the category’s demise also marked the end of its planned replacement, Group S, for which the ECV1 had been developed. Instead, the sport took a new direction from the beginning of 1987, with the production-based Group A becoming the premier category in world rallying.
While Lancia’s dramatic Delta S4 had fought the factory Peugeot and Audi challenge in the WRC in 1986, its engineers in Turin were also busy working on the future Group S framework. Google Image Result for. Google Image Result for. Jonus Audi 90 quattro - 2.2 20v - 1265bhp drag.flv.
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