Lancia Delta and Delta HF: Books - History and Models

Lancia Delta Integrale

A legend on the road, race track and rally stage, the Lancia integrale was a machine to be reckoned with during its heyday in the 1980s. This book records the complete history of the Lancia Delta Integrale - one of the best known and most successful rally cars of all time. This brand new, updated edition includes the background and history of the model, the complete story of the road cars, and covers all the special editions of the integrale - a vital aspect of the story.
The Integrale's motorsport history is featured, detailing events, along with the development of factory prepared integrales. Valuable information was provided by Sergio Limone, the chief engineer, and the late Giorgio Pianta, the chief test driver, from Turin in Italy.

These cars are now highly sought-after, and are turning ever more heads as the years pass. This book, produced in full colour with original photographs, is a fitting tribute to this iconic car.

Lancia Delta & HF integrale - Brooklands Portfolio

Brooklands Portfolio book about the Lancia Delta and HF Integrale passenger cars. Describes the Lancia Delta, HF Turbo, HF 4WD, Integrale and Prisma.

• The 64 articles, taken from contemporary British and American car magazines, provide much information about history, model changes and technology.
• Also driving impressions, tests, comparison tests, technical specifications, etc.

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Lancia Delta HF 4WD & Integrale (1987 to 1994) - Essential Buyer's Guide

Unveiled to the public at the 1979 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Lancia Delta was conceived as a small, front-wheel drive family car, for the more affluent consumer sector. Originally offered in three models - the Delta 1300 in 4 and 5-speed guises, and the Delta 1500 5-speed - the Delta was awareded Car of the Year in 1980.
Over the next decade, the Delta range evolved and expanded, with larger, more powerful engines, auto gearboxes, turbochargers and more, before evolving into the powerful, technically complex, aggressive Lancia Delta Integrale Evo.

This guide tells you everything you need to know when considering a potential purchase of the car that evolved to become the powerful, technically complex and aggressive Lancia Delta Integrale EVO, a car that consistently won the Rally World Championship from 1987 to 1992, and has now attained cult status.
Fully illustrated, with a unique evaluation guide, and valuable advice on cost, documentation, restoration, club support and more, this Essential Buyer's Guide provides you with practical information from a marque expert on how to seek out a good example.

This book covers cars produced between 1986 and 1999, and includes Lancia Delta HF 4WD, Lancia Delta integrale 8V and 16V, Evo I, and Evo II. It does not cover the Lancia Delta 1.3, 1.5, HF Turbo, and 1.6i.e

Lancia Delta Gruppo A (Volume 1)

The Lancia Delta Group A is one of the most successful racing cars of all time. A legend that has collected 46 victories in World Rally races and won six Constructors 'titles consecutively, plus four Drivers' titles with Biasion and Kankkunen.

In the first volume, enriched by the preface by Miki Biasion, the sporting deeds of the Delta Group A are retraced, with the relative technical data sheets and the transparent drawings of all the versions. This part is accompanied by the beautiful and exclusive original images of Actualfoto.
Then, to further enrich the work, there is a second part relating to tests and developments written by one of the main architects of Delta's successes, the engineer Sergio Limone. The Turin-based designer reveals a series of information that was still secret until yesterday, with an exhaustive text full of unpublished details written jointly with Luca Gastaldi.

This section of the first volume is completed by the very rare images taken at the time by Limone himself and a single document: the complete list of all the Delta made at Abarth, with all the information relating to each model.

Lancia Delta - Un fabuleux palmarès

Née en 1979, la familiale compacte Lancia Delta n'est pas programmée au départ pour s'illustrer sur la scène mondiale des rallyes. La Stratos puis, au début des années 1980, la 037 jouent ce rôle. Mais comme la concurrence (Audi, Peugeot) développe des 4-roues motrices pour le Mondial des rallyes (Quattro, 205 T16), Lancia réagit d'abord en présentant un proto Delta 4x4 fin 1982, puis en élaborant la Delta S4 groupe B, laquelle remporte le RAC dès sa première sortie fin 1985 au nez et à la barbe des autres groupes B patentées citées ci-dessus.

Une S4 devient l'épouvantail de la saison 1986 jusqu'au Tour de Corse où le pilote phare de Lancia, Toivonen, se tue. Un accident qui signe l'arrêt de mort de ces monstrueuses Groupes B. Mais Lancia réagit vite en 1987 avec une Delta HF 4WD base commerciale pour la voiture de rallye, laquelle attaque la même année la saison WRC et devient une première fois championne du monde des rallyes. Et cela ne va plus s'arrêter.

Cet ouvrage décrit en détails la Lancia Delta et sa carrière sportive.

La Lancia Delta de mon père

Introduced in the early 1980s in the rapidly expanding market for compact family cars, the Lancia Delta was aimed at motorists who wanted the refined performance of a luxury car in a less ostentatious body. Developed on technical solutions worthy of the Lancia tradition, the Delta was crowned Car of the Year in Europe in 1980.

The Delta range, developed until the early 1990s, incorporated more powerful engines, ever more luxurious finishes, and sophisticated four-wheel drive versions. The Delta has long competed in the World Rally Championship, competing under Group B and A regulations.

With nearly 500,000 cars produced in twelve years, including a few haute couture models, unique or a few dozen examples, the Delta was a remarkable commercial success, of which you will discover the studies and prototypes, the versions of each vintage, the limited series, their advertisements, the competitions, and a review of the international press.

• Richly illustrated, this book retraces in detail the history and evolution of the Lancia Delta.
• This volume of the "La voiture de mon père" collection is not only a source of deep information for the owner, but also a concise guide to originality.
• The technology, variants, modifications and special versions are described in detail.
• Contains 280 vintage photos, many of which have never been seen before.

Lancia Delta HF Integrale: Die Geschichte eines Champions

Ein Kultauto! Wenn jemals diese überschwängliche Beschreibung zugetroffen hat, dann ganz sicher auf den Lancia Delta Integrale. Auf Basis des ganz und gar unspektakulären Alltags-Delta, entstand im Laufe der achtziger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts mit dem Integrale ein martialisch dreinschauendes, technisch hoch kompliziertes Hochleistungsauto, das keinem anderen Zweck mehr dienen sollte, als auf Rallyepfaden Weltmeisterlorbeer zu erobern - was auch eindrucksvoll gelang.

Die Autoren erzählen - unterstützt von wichtigen Zeitzeugen - die spannende Geschichte des Delta Integrale als Wettbewerbs- und auch als Strassenfahrzeug. Dabei transportieren sie die Faszination dieses begeisternden Allrad-Sportwagens in Wort und Bild zu dieser umfänglichen Dokumentation.

Lancia Delta

A true four-wheeled icon, launched in 1979 and designed by the supremely talented Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Lancia Delta was produced in a complex series of versions through to the early Nineties when the second series was introduced.

The series "The Cars that Made History" could hardly not feature a title dedicated to this great Lancia classic, a remarkable car suitable for the family, work and recreation. It was also a car that over the years successfully transformed into an authentic star of the rallying world, ringing up victories and world championship titles.
Model by model, version by version, the full history of the Delta, today a car sought after by collectors and nostalgic enthusiasts of the unforgettable 1980s.

Text in Italian.