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Lancia Hyena Zagato - individualist with rally genes

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Created on April 11, 2020

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Daniel Koch

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Daniel Reinhard

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Courtesy of RM Sotheby's/Dirk de Jager

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Daniel Reinhard

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Courtesy of RM Sotheby's/Dirk de Jager

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - A typical Zagato

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - In waiting

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Unmistakably a Zagazo

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - In attack position

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Short overhangs

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - With its aluminum body, it was almost 200 kg lighter than the Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione, from which the technology originated

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Crisp rear end

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Many have probably only seen the rear end

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - 205/45 tires on 16'' rims

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione with elephants

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - 250 to 300 hp were possible

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Engine from the Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Four-cylinder turbo engine

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Carbon in the interior

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Numbered

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - There were even rear seats

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Uncompromising interior

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Beglia instruments

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Sober cockpit

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Lancia Hyena Zagato (1993) - Watch collection

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Lancia Hyena Zagato - Customized manual

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Lancia Delta HF Turbo "Zagato" (1985) - the integral version of the Delta provided the technical basis for the Lancia Hyena Zagato

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Lancia Delta HF Turbo "Zagato" (1985) - hard to believe that almost the same technology sits underneath, but the Hyena used the Integrale base

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Lancia Delta HF Turbo "Zagato" (1985) - twice Zagato, left as tuning, right as own body creation

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Lancia Delta HF Turbo "Zagato" (1985) - four times Zagato - Flavia Sport Zagato, Delta HF Turbo "Zagato", Hyena and Maserati Biturbo Spider (front) - recorded at the Pantheon Basel/Muttenz

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Summary

Zagato took the technology of the Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione and gave it a lightweight aluminum dress and a lot of carbon. The result was a super sports car that was around 200 kilograms lighter than its technical donor

This article contains the following chapters

Only two doors
Difficult production
Convincing driving performance
Connection to rallying

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

When an already successful and fast rally car is given a cure at Zagato, the result is guaranteed to be an extraordinary work of art. On the initiative of Dutch Lancia importer Paul Koot, two dozen Lancia Hyena based on the Delta HF Integrale were built. Fiat was the owner of Lancia at the time and did not want to supply Delta chassis to Zagato. So it had to buy finished Deltas, remove the bodywork and then build the Hyena aluminum skin. In an interview with the magazine "auto, motor und sport" in 1994, Gianni Zagato stated: "The worldwide approval of a Zagato special body costs just under one million US dollars. These costs can no longer be recouped with small-scale production." It is therefore obvious that the Hyena was not a commercially successful project.

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