Modern interpretations of gift Lancia’s of the past have to us anyway a dash for it, but this thing is really cool.
It will be little surprise that this Sbarro Ionos is inspired by the great Lancia Stratos. The Ionos was in 1997 and presented the concept car was designed by students. They signed a car of up to 3.6 meters long, 1.8 meter wide, 1.1 meter high and a weight of 1,100 kg. Pretty light, especially when you consider that there is a V10 engine with over 400 horsepower under the hood was!
This motor actually consists of two vijfcilinders from the Lancia Kappa, each with a displacement of 2.4 liters. The AWD system came from Porsche, as well as the gearbox. Interesting: that same transmission was between the cilinderbanken mounted to the wheelbase and length of the Ionos within the limits to be able to keep. Further, the exhaust pipe of the Mercedes and were the brakes came of an Alfa Romeo racer.
The appearance of the Ionos is to me just a little to nineties, but certainly right from the front side the design is absolutely successful. All in all a beautiful interpretation of the legendary Stratos. A pity that it is a concept car remained the same.