Video: This Lancia Delta S4 is the ultimate collectors rally car

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Ethan Jupp
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The Lancia Delta S4 is not a car that really needs explaining – it does exactly what it says on the tin. It consumes as much air as the enormous bulging vents suggest it requires. It gets as much air over crests as the huge winglets and canards look like they can counteract. It’s brutally beautiful, brilliantly unapologetic, in parts seemingly hilariously unnecessary and yet totally functional and focused. It is Group B.

The owner of this Delta S4 knows how to celebrate Group B, too. As seen in the Petrolicious video above, John Campion loves to drive. He concedes he isn’t a patch on your quintessential Group B hero – but relishes the sights, sounds, smells and the sensation of piloting this fizzing, vibrating, rattling monster. It transports him back to the era.

“If you own them and don’t show them, and you own them and don’t drive them, and own them but don’t share them… it’s a rich man’s folly”. He’s right. To own a machine with such singularity of purpose – to go faster than what the laws of Physics, and the gods of luck, should allow – and not have it turn a wheel would be an insult to its memory.

What a stunning machine, and what a fantastic owner for it to be under the care and attention of.