{"id":146853,"date":"2016-03-12T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=146853"},"modified":"2024-05-01T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:04:10","slug":"146853-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/146853-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwwHULWCmkI\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwwHULWCmkI\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"yt watch-title-container\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance\">Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Imagine yourself in Lancia\u2019s position in the early 1980s. Your Stratos has recently won three consecutive World Rally Championships (1974-76) but you can see the writing on the wall, writing which reads \u201call-wheel-drive.\u201d How do you build on this past success and continue to be competitive in the new decade? For Lancia, the answer was the 037, which would ultimately become, in 1983, the last rear-wheel-drive car to win the WRC Manufacturers&#8217; Championship before AWD competitors like the Audi Quattro and Peugeot 205 T16 completely changed the sport forever.<\/p>\n<p>To compete in Group B events, Lancia was obliged to meet homologation rules by producing 200 street versions of the 037. While visually striking and invigorating to drive, the 037 Stradale remains, at heart, a race car and is thus anything but comfortable. This, however, is precisely what appeals to owner Philip Toledano, who grew up watching Lancia\u2013more specifically, the Stratos and 037\u2013dominate European rally racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like [the 037] was just a sports car designed for people who wanted to go fast,\u201d says Phil. \u201cThis was designed for a purpose, and I love things that were designed specifically for a purpose, like a tool\u2013except it&#8217;s a fast tool that scares the crap out of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interior of the 037 Stradale belies the car\u2019s racing heritage: the dash contains a circuit board, conveniently located for periodic resets by the navigator; a navigator\u2019s light stands at the ready; and the oil temperature gauge is located on the far right side of the dash, in front of the navigator\u2019s seat. The 037&#8217;s exterior is similarly eye-catching. Sporting a Pininfarina body and a 2.0 liter, supercharged Abarth engine that, as Phil puts it, makes Star Wars-like noises as he revs through the gears, the car attracts onlookers wherever it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, however, this 037 is but a screaming red blur, leaving those onlookers little time to realize what they\u2019ve just seen.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1982-lancia-037-stradale\/\">1982 Lancia 037 Stradale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance Imagine yourself in Lancia\u2019s position in the early 1980s. Your Stratos has recently won three consecutive World Rally Championships (1974-76) but you can see the writing on the wall, writing which reads \u201call-wheel-drive.\u201d How do you build on this past success and continue to be competitive in the new decade? For Lancia, the answer was the 037, which would ultimately become, in 1983, the last rear-wheel-drive car to win the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204,12919],"tags":[1205,17559,20338,8441],"class_list":["post-146853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lancia","category-videos","tag-lancia","tag-lancia-media-videos","tag-lancia-rally-037","tag-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO: Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/146853-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO: Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lancia 037 Group B Represents Last Era of Racing Romance Imagine yourself in Lancia\u2019s position in the early 1980s. 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