Lancia Delta ECV

The Lancia Delta ECV (Experimenta Composite Vehicle) is a never-raced rally car. Born as successor of Lancia Delta S4, was designed to compete in Group S (an evolution of Group B).
In order to mantain the leadership in World Rally Championship, Lancia (with the Abarth R&D) has developed a really innovative car with large use of composite materials (chassis, bodywork, and rims).
With a weight of 930 kg and approx 800 bhp of power, the performance were really close to Formula One car, but a rally car shoud race in normal road!
After lot of dramatic crash (and deaths), the FISA (Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile) decided to ban from rally the Group B cars, and also the Group S was stopped immediately.
Now the car take part on exhibition like Rally Legend, often with Miki Biasion at the wheel.
This car was restored by Beppe Volta (Volta Racing).

More pictures here: http://www.just-drive.it/foto-lancia-delta-ecv1-se041/