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Lancia Stratos Zero : the eternal futurist

Gautam Sen

€142.18

Publisher : Dalton Watson

Reference : LN05884

AVAILABLE 3rd QUARTER 2024

Some have dubbed it the “most extraordinary concept car ever”. The Lancia Stratos zero remains one of the greatest concept cars, with design ramifications that are so vast that it deserves a book for itself.

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Some have dubbed it the “most extraordinary concept car ever”. The Lancia Stratos zero remains one of the greatest concept cars, with design ramifications that are so vast that it deserves a book for itself. Not only did it influence almost every Lamborghini since the Countach LP500, and give birth indirectly to the greatest rally weapon, the similarly named Lancia Stratos HF Rally, but its impact was far and wide at every level of design, automotive or otherwise. The use of LEDs, sequential indicators and flat digital screens – all commonplace today – were first suggested in this time machine. Even more astounding was the fact that the Stratos Zero was a drivable device unlike many other flights of fancy from then (or, for that matter, today).

No doubt the Stratos HF Zero is as impractical and, in many ways, as meaningless as most automotive concepts, but at the same time: how many concept cars are there that look even more sensational today than they did half a century ago?

Yes, a few may be named, but did they work? What lovechild, what bloodline did they leave behind? What ideas did they suggest that we could see today in everyday cars? Which other concept starred both in cinemas and art museums?

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Author
Gautam Sen
Publisher
Dalton Watson
Publishing Date
2024
Size
22 x 30 cm
ISBN
Illustration
415
Number of pages
320
Language
English
Condition
New
Binding
Hardbound

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