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Lancia Delta S4 time trial

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Sometimes a video is too good not to share.

We’ve blathered on about the brutal beauty of Group B rally time and time again. But we don’t care.

There’s something so brilliant about the way these machines moved – and the Lancia entry into the formula, the S4 has always been our favourite

The sound, the handling and the general stance and poise of these cars makes you ache for a drive, does it not? Up to 1000bhp. A loose-surfaced pull away to sixty in around two and a half seconds. Both sorts of forced induction.

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