Kimera EVO38 is an even more extreme Lancia retromod | GRR
Kimera, proprietor of dream machinery in the image of Lancia’s glorious rally cars, has revealed its latest creation. Similar to the 037-aping EVO37 is the EVO38, what Kimera describes as a car that encapsulates what could and should have come next from Lancia in the 1990s. ‘An heir, the final evolution of its species.’
While similar to the 037 still in silhouette, this car actually draws a lot from another staple Lancia super sportscar: the Beta MonteCarlo.
There’s a lot of the Beta’s jutting chin spoiler on the EVO38 and at the rear, where the exhausts used to be lower down in the bumper, now there’s a single central exit, a-la the Beta.
Also new is the roof-fed air intake feeding down into a prospect engine cover. All in, the EVO38 looks like a more serious track car.
So what about the mechanicals? If things are that much more extreme on the outside, what’s changed underneath? Well, where the EVO37 is rear-driven, the EVO38 adds all-wheel-drive. That should improve stability while it’s also expected to have more power than the 500PS (368kW) EVO37, too.
“These cars are part of our DNA, our culture, our land,” said Luca Betti of Kimera Automobili.
“They have been part of my life since forever. They move me. Today as a child. I used to go to bed with their scale model and I would remain enchanted watching them for hours and even now, despite my age and the time that has passed, nothing has changed.”
Clearly there is more to know about the Kimera EVO38, and much more to come from Kimera. While there are 38 of these set to be made, we’re also looking forward to the reveal of the K-39, which looks to take the Beta Monte Carlo inspiration even further with a big wing and haunch inlets.