The Stratos Zero's shape anticipated the style of the eighties. Designed by Marcelo Gandini 1970 year.

Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

Lancia was founded in 1906 by Italian racer and inventor Vincenzo Lancia. From the very beginning, its owner did not follow the beaten track, but became a pioneer in various fields of automotive design. This has helped Lancia models always stay ahead of their time and be in demand among innovation enthusiasts. On Lancia, for the first time in Italy or even in Europe, such inventions as an electric starter and headlights (1913), a V4 engine with a narrow block and one overhead camshaft (1922), an independent candle suspension of the front wheels (1922), front and rear doors without B-pillars (1933), 5-speed gearbox (1948), V6 engine (1950) and front-wheel drive (1960). But the most advanced car of this brand was the Lancia Lambda (1922-1931) - the world's first car with a monocoque all-metal body. Until 1931, Lancia models were designated by the letters of the Greek alphabet, and then they were given the names of the roads leading to Rome.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

The Lancia Stratos Zero is a futuristic concept car unveiled at the 1970 Turin Motor Show, a year before the first prototype of the production Lancia Stratos. It was developed by the chief designer of the Bertone studio, Marcello Gandini, with the goal of creating a car as low as possible.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

But with the Lancia Stratos Zero, no human-made vehicle could match. In 1971, when Nuccio Bertone personally came to Lancia headquarters to discuss the project of a future sports car, a crowd of onlookers immediately gathered around the Stratos Zero to look at an unidentified object parked at the entrance. The fact that this is a car was evidenced only by the presence of four wheels and the sound of the Lancia V4 engine running. And the audience was overwhelmingly surprised when Nuccio Bertone himself came out of the only door of the "spaceship".

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

The body of the Lancia Stratos Zero embodied the pure wedge shape. It was single-volume, but inside it was clearly divided into two halves: the cabin and the engine compartment. The panels characteristic of ordinary cars - the hood, trunk lid, doors and roof - were missing. Instead, it had a single access hatch that served as both a roof and a windshield, and a bonnet of five nested triangular louvers, which when open became at the same angle as the front of the body, turning the wedge into a dart plumage.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

In the cabin there were two reclining places, upholstered in leather on the principle of a chocolate bar. The driver could sit in his seat only when the steering wheel was pulled back by means of a hydraulic mechanism. Instead of a dashboard, there was a rectangular green bracket with sensors and buttons to the left of the driver.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

Since the Stratos Zero was only 840mm high, only the wheels of passing cars could be seen through the top and bottom side windows. Small mirrors built into the front fenders were practically useless, and during testing, an outside rear-view mirror had to be attached to the windshield. Instead of conventional headlights, the car had a thin strip of 10 lamps of 55 W each in front and the same strip of 84 lamps along the perimeter of the truncated tail.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

Bertone

Unlike many other concept cars, the Lancia Stratos Zero was fully functional. It was built on a special central engine platform with a wheelbase of 2220 mm, which later became the basis for the Lancia Stratos. In front of the driving rear axle was a 1.6-liter V4 engine from a Lancia Fulvia 1600 HF, producing 115 hp, mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. The suspension was fully independent, with MacPherson struts at the front and double wishbones at the rear, and all brakes were disc brakes.

Design Lancia Stratos Zero

Lancia Stratos Zero

After debuting at the auto show, the Lancia Stratos Zero was repainted from bronze to silver and in 1971 was road tested by Quattroruote magazine. Then she was in the Bertone Museum for a long time and in 2000 she was returned to its original form.

Specifications

Lancia Stratos Zero modification

Years of issue 1970

Country Italy

Manufacturer Lancia Automobiles SpA, Fiat Group

Produced 1

Category Concepts

Bertone design

Body type Two-seater coupe

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