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Lancia Delta HF Integrale

1987 · IT · stav: approved

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Six WRC titles in a row. Consecutively.
The Delta HF Integrale and its immediate predecessor the Delta HF 4WD took Lancia to six consecutive World Rally Championship manufacturers' titles from 1987 to 1992. No other car has matched that streak in the modern WRC era.
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Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the shell it hid behind.
The road-going Delta's body was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign, first shown in 1979. The Integrale sat inside that same practical hatchback silhouette — a grocery-run body concealing 210 PS and permanent four-wheel drive.
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The bodywork literally grew wider each year.
From the original HF 4WD through to the Evoluzione II, Lancia progressively widened the Delta's wheel arches to accommodate ever-larger turbochargers and wider track. Each homologation revision made the car visibly chunkier than the one before.
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Group A rules killed its raison d'être — so Lancia quit.
When the WRC moved fully to stricter Group A regulations and then toward the new Formula 2 kit-car concept in the early 1990s, Lancia chose to withdraw from factory competition entirely after 1992. The Integrale had no competitive successor, and the motorsport program was closed.
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It was homologated for sale to the public — all of it.
To race under Group A rules, manufacturers had to build 2,500 road cars. Lancia didn't just meet that threshold — it kept selling the Integrale as a genuine retail car throughout its competition life and beyond, producing tens of thousands of road-going examples.
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The Lancia Delta HF Integrale started as a lie.

Not a fraud — a disguise. Giorgetto Giugiaro drew that boxy hatchback shell in 1979 for sensible Italians doing sensible things. Lancia then spent the next decade stuffing it with a turbocharged four-wheel-drive rally weapon and sending it to destroy the World Rally Championship.

Six consecutive manufacturers' titles. 1987 to 1992. Nobody has done it since.

Each homologation revision made the car physically wider. The arches grew, the track grew, the power grew. The grocery-run body just kept absorbing it.

Group A rules required 2,500 road cars to go on sale. Lancia obliged — and then kept building them, selling the Integrale as a proper retail product all the way through its competition career.

When the regulations shifted and the factory program lost its edge, Lancia didn't adapt. They walked away from the WRC entirely in 1992. No successor. No farewell tour.

That's either the most dignified exit in motorsport history, or the most stubborn. Possibly both.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia_Delta

Photos: Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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