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25 May 2021 12:51 pm / 0 comments
In 1983, the Martini Racing team won the Group B category of the FIA World Rally Championship with the Lancia Rally 037, which is remembered for being the final rear-wheel drive rally car to do so. It was certainly quite a feat, considering the stiff competition from Audi Sport and their fearsome Quattro machines with four-wheel drive, but the 118 points that Martini Racing gathered by the end of 1983 season was two more than what the Germans could secure.
As tribute to one of the most successful rally cars of all time, Italian company Kimera Automobili has come up with a rather exciting restomod project that reimagines the 037 (also known as the Tipo 151) with some modern touches.
Racing team and Italian engineering firm Kimera Automobili has revealed a restomod version of the iconic Group B rallying Lancia 037.
It joins cars like the David Brown Automotive Mini Remastered and the GTO Engineering Squalo in the rapidly expanding restomod sector, and will be officially unveiled at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.
It’s powered by a heavily re-engineered version of the 2.1-litre four-cylinder petrol engine from the original 037. But, where the rally car produced around 270bhp and 300Nm of torque, the Kimera EVO37 has 498bhp and 550Nm.
The unit shares the same dry sump block as the 037 rally car, but every other component in the engine has been changed. To reach the new power output the engine has been twin-charged. There’s a roots-type supercharger, like the original rally car, as well as a turbocharger, which is bolted to a bespoke stainless steel manifold.
24 May 2021
Italian motorsport outfit Kimera Automobili has revealed a significantly modernised and heavily uprated take on one of the most successful rally cars of all time: the Lancia 037.
The road-legal Evo37 is based on Lancia s fearsome mid-engined World Rally Championship (WRC) contender, which is remembered for being the final rear-driven car to win the top-flight series.
Kimera refers to the Evo37 as a tribute to those legendary cars of the 1980s protagonists of the WRC .
The project was completed with contributions from suppliers and engineers who also worked on Lancia s original racer, including engineers Sergio Limone and Vittorio Roberti and two-time WRC champion Miki Biasion.