Ultimate Lancia Hyena post! (56k warning)

[stradale]

In 1990 Zagato designed the Lancia Hyena, based on the Lancia Delta HF Integrale EVO. Therefore it has permanent four wheel drive and a 2 litre 4 cylinder engine, transversely mounted in the front. Thanks to a turbo and intercooler it pushes out 260 hp and 324 Nm. So it is even more powerful than the car it is based upon (210 hp and 298Nm). That is because of an ECU upgrade. The gearbox is a 5 speed manual. Top speed is 233 km/h and apparently it hit 100 km/h in 5.2 seconds. It was equipped with specially designed Koni struts and handled better than the Integrale EVO.

Lancia wasn't going to build it and Dutchman Paul Koot of Lusso Services (if my memory serves me right) acquired a license from Zagato to build it instead. If you wanted one, you'd need a donor car (Delta HF Integrale EVO) and Koot would convert it to a Hyena, like Zagato did. It weighs 1,148 kg, so it's also lighter (the HF Integrale weighs in at 1,300 kg). The bodywork is handcrafted out of aluminium and carbon kevlar and mounted on a steel framework. The dashboard is very very light. Paul Koot: "The Hyena dashboard was not derived from the Alfa Romeo SZ. The instruments were, but the total interior was made out of structural carbon fibre in a 1A, autoclave-cured quality:

Stock Hyena
Dashboard +/- 17 kg 2,5 kg
Door panels ,, 2,5 kg 700 gr.
Tunnel ,, 4 kg 800 gr.

The total weight of all carbon parts did not exceed 5 kg. per car. The interior production cost price was approx. US$ 7,500 per car."

Due to either "management changes at Fiat/Lancia" or "the end of the production for the Delta HF Integrale EVO" (sources are not unamimous on this), only 24 were ever built between 1992 and 1993. Plans ranged from 75 to 500 cars. Unfortunately that never happened. The dark blue car in the last two pictures is Paul Koot's own car, number 24, the only one in Blu Madras.

I saw a couple of them over the years (I took the pictures of the yellow one, which attends the annual Italian car event at the Assen track every year) and I'm still in love with this car. In silver, black or dark blue it is simply to die for!

[stradale]

^^^ It is.

I'm hardly surprised you don't know it, because of the car being built here by Lusso. In 1990 the car got the attention of the press of course, when Zagato showed it off at international car shows, but that's a long time ago. It got quite some attention of the Dutch automotive press when Lusso was building them, but I can imagine that not many people in Spain knew it was being produced. That's also one of the reasons why I started this thread.

I think most of the 24 cars are in the Netherlands and the others probably are in Germany, Belgium and maybe France. I also know of an Englishman that has one. His car collection was featured in EVO once and needless to say the Hyena was being discussed.

[skituner]

sweet car
i have never seen one before

[5vz-fe]

Wow, very nice Lancia, it is surprising that there are so many colors of the car yet they didn't produce it. What a pitty...=(

[kteo2003]

well i think that lancia always made nice cars..i personally like a lot thesis the new ypsilon...but my favorite unfortunatelly is still a concept...the fulvia coupe...what do you guys think of that?

[stradale]

@ 5vz-fe: It was produced, but only 24 were made. However, not by Lancia nor Zagato, but with a license.

@kteo2003: The Fulvia concept is brilliant. There are some threads on it here at JW.

[1zippo1]

Very nice post stradale!

Didn't know about the car and it's allways nice to learn something new. Certainly if it's about something as exceptional as this!

I do find is an extraordinary car, but there is some doubt about the styling.
It does look quite good, but also a bit weird. I have my doubts about the ass of the car, and the headlights. Apart from that, very elegant!

[chaos]

im a grale fan but i have to say ive never heard of one of these before.

not too sure on the styling but i do love the fact its different.

[HeilSvenska]

how savage...to my likings...