Lancia Stratos HF Stradale
Why 3.0: A wedge-shaped, wheelbase-starved rally special with a Ferrari Dino V6 behind the seats — twitchy, immediate, and built for stages, not showrooms. Values have run past seven figures for the best examples, so the hillclimb circuit is about the only place these still get driven hard.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The Dino 2.4 V6 breathes through three Webers inches behind the seats, in a car with a 2.18 m wheelbase and no insulation to speak of. It is capped by 7,400 rpm and only six small cylinders, which leaves it just under the V12s.
6-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 7,400 rpm redline · rated 8.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €8k (1974) → €874k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Built before ISOFIX existed, so there are no anchor points at all. A child seat here is a seatbelt installation in the only passenger seat there is.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
Bertone built the shortest wheelbase Lancia could get away with and dropped in a Dino-derived V6 built for a completely different car, and the shape only exists because Lancia needed 500 road cars to homologate a purpose-built rally weapon. That heritage shows every time it's driven: short, light, and nervous at the limit. Auction results have run past the million-dollar mark for the best examples in recent years, which has pulled most surviving cars out of daily use and into the hillclimb-and-concours circuit exclusively. It wears Homologation Hero honestly, and Forbidden Fruit too — Lancia never sold a single one new in America.