Lancia Delta HF Integrale EVO Stretch Limousine

Ottengami la mia lama così posso tagliare il fronte del cane che lo ha insultato!! I mean seriously. Limosines are bad enough as they are, you know, but this? Yes, this is no joke (or if it is, it's a very bad joke). Someone decided that what the world was missing was a Lancia limo.

And not just any Lancia but a Lancia Delta. And not just any Lancia Delta, but an HF Integrale EVO. Seriously, how many EVOs are there out on the roads? A dozen or so? And rather than race the thing, you decided to take a torch to it and cut it up and make this. Brilliant.

It would seem, according to sources, that there are not one, but two Lancia Delta HF Integrale stretch limos that are up for sale. And what makes that even more insulting is that they are being offered in their home country of Italy. Somehow, that makes it even worse.

If this insult had been leveled by some non-Italian, it might have been slightly more tolerable, but to have this done in Italy. Tsk-tsk-tsk. Oh, and the price is a travesty as well €99,000 or around US$136,000 at today's exchange rates.

Beyond that, the details are thankfully sketchy. Both limos seem to sport the wider body and detailing of the 1991 Integrale Evoluzione. And one of them seems to be propelled by the HF Integrale 8v's 2.0L turbo powerplant. And the other, it would appear, gets motivated by the Evo I's 210-horsepower 2.0L 16v turbo unit.

Now, there's no definitive word as to whether these two limos were made up from real original Delta HF Integrales, or whether they used the standard Delta hatchbacks, cut them into limos, and then added some bits and pieces of Delta HF Integrale bodywork to make the look complete.

There is also no word as to whether either of these limos feature the Integrale's four-wheel drive system. Do you really want to know? I don't, apart from a vague technical curiosity about how they extended and suspended the drive line all the way out to the back wheels.

But even if ewe are looking at a best case scenario, which in this case means they are just "normal" Deltas that got hacked up, these Bozos not only used up some perfectly good Delta HF Integrale body panels that could have been put to a much more worthy purpose (i.e., racing), but they also used up two sets of those gorgeous O.Z. Rally wheels.

Source: CarScoop