Lancia Hyena Zagato: the last real Lancia with soul (17 photos)

Lancia Hyena was born on the basis of Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione thanks to the collaboration of Andrea Zagato and the Dutch a Lancia importer named Paul Kut. Hyena got all aluminum body and a very powerful engine for those years.





If we look at modern automotive industry, it is hard to imagine that many brands, at some point time were very prestigious. For example, before World War II war, Maserati had the image of Ferrari, and Buick was considered one of the most luxury cars in the world. A similar conclusion can be drawn about Lancia. The brand was founded by an industrialist named Vincenzo Lancia in 1906. year in Turin with the aim of producing luxury cars.



The company was bought by Fiat in 1969, and over the next several decades, Lancia was forced to drop to a lower standard, but still became famous with the Delta model in the World Championship rally (WRC). When the famous Lancia Martini racing team retired from world stage in 1992, it became clear that Fiat would never again allow the brand to have its own identity. But in such a situation a very interesting model was born, the one that many today considered almost the last real Lancia.





It's called Hyena and was created just at the time when the end of the Delta was already in sight. Atelier Zagato, about which many heard, made a prototype coupe based on Delta. It was designed by Marco Pedrachini and was completed in 1990 and then presented to management.



However, he received a negative answer, since Fiat had no desire approve mass production, but this does not mean that his work is not paid off. The prototype was spotted by a man named Paul Coot from Netherlands, who was the distributor of Lancia cars on this market.



At his own expense, he approved the first production model and named it the Hyena. She is debuted at the Brussels Motor Show in 1992. After an excellent The reaction of the public was planned serial production of 500 units. However, later this figure was reduced to 75 after Kut didn't get enough orders.



More recent studies have shown that each car was incredibly expensive to manufacture. Kut bought new samples of donor Delta Integrale Evoluziones models, then removed everything from them and sent Chassis at Zagato in Milan. There, the studio installed new aluminum hulls and sent cars back to the Netherlands, where they installed exclusive interior.



In today's monetary terms, each Hyena was worth as much as 150 thousand US dollars. For the declared amount, the buyer received relatively attractive coupe weighing 1148 kilograms, which is 15% less compared to Delta. The coupe also had aerodynamic styling, and although it may not have been the masterpiece that was expected from Zagato, but it is, certainly was distinctive enough to be noticed on the streets.



Equipped with a 2-liter turbo engine with 250 hp. (for 40 hp more than the Delta) and a maximum torque of 298 Nm. Box gears were five-speed manual, and the drive was all-wheel drive. Hyena accelerated from standstill to 100 km / h in 5.4 seconds, and the maximum speed was 230 km / h.



It is interesting to note that the car actually did not have a trunk, but the list of additional equipment was practically absent, for except for the 90-litre tank and the more expensive audio system.



Hyena received relatively good reviews in the media, but the high price and the severe economic crisis that hit the world in the early 1990s, led to the fact that the car was not a commercial success. Since From 1992 to 1995, only 24 copies were sold.



Today Lancia only works in Italy and offers only one model. in your range. The Hyena development team didn't get their way concept, but this Lancia went down in history as the last model of the brand, to which the audience really got into.

Lancia Hyena today costs more than 150.000 euro