AKA: a proper use for your fortune, Mr Billionaire.
It's a simple story: man loves car, man is billionaire, man spends piles of money recreating modern version of car. It's noble. The new Lancia Stratos is a weapon of war mixed with a labor of love... a weapon of love? It's the creation of billionaire car nut and CEO of supplier Brose KG, Michael Stoschek, a long-time Stratos and rally car fanatic. Its creation is a long time coming. Long like 24 years long, like 1986, when Stoschek met Chris Hrabalek in Alta Badia, Italy at a the World Stratos Meet.
Stoschek and Hrabalek met with the designers at Pininfarina to hammer out a car in early 2008. The design started under the hand of rising design star Jason Castriota and eventually moved to the designers at Bertone, which was the studio behind the original Stratos. It's based around the Ferrari F430 chassis and its 4.3-liter V8 engine with an all carbon fiber body, carbon ceramic brakes, a tiny wheelbase like the original, and a weight-to-power ratio of just 5.5 lbs per horsepower.
As of now there is only one prototype vehicle, but there may be as many as 25 copies built when the design is finalized.
Castriota just joined Saab as its Design Director. Should be interesting
2013 BMW 328i M Sport with 8sp in Estoril Blue II
2012 Chrysler 300C SRT8 - Always bet on black
2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Edition, otherwise known as the MW3 (and badass)
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
The Stratos dies again
I has disappoint, but at least reading the comments pick me back up a little.
Fuck Chrysler. And by Chrysler I mean Fiat who owns 59% of Chrysler and 90% of Ferrari.
I wonder if Pinanfarina and Michael Stoschek will allow people who have purchased F430 or 60's to retrofit their private cars to accept the new/old awesome?
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears
zaxrex wrote:Fuck Chrysler. And by Chrysler I mean Fiat who owns 59% of Chrysler and 90% of Ferrari.
Wow, I didn't know that!
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
zaxrex wrote:Fuck Chrysler. And by Chrysler I mean Fiat who owns 59% of Chrysler and 90% of Ferrari.
Wow, I didn't know that!
Yeah, apparently there is supposed to be some cross-pollination between Ferrari and the Viper via Fiat. But don't expect any hybrid vigor. Any more, that is, than you expected from the Gallardo after Audi moved in on Lamborghini. This haet, it runs deep.
I'm happy there is one and that I have seen it in person. That a few other billionaires will have to play with different toys doesn't bother me near as much as it should.
