Opel manta 400 vs lancia 037 evo 211/20/2023 ![]() The race engine is a 1,995cc supercharged in-line 4-cylinder unit producing 280hp. The 037 maintains its natural elegance in both racing and road-going versions. For the road version, the seller was “satisfied” with €250,320, once again above the estimate of €180-240,000. How did it end? The racing one flew over the estimates of €600-800,000 and changed hands for €977,440. At Artcurial, both an Evo 2 (ex-works car and winner of the Tour de Corse in 1986) and a road car (with a very beautiful history) were available. The time when you could take home one of these with 25,000 km on the clock for €53,000 (July 2010), or an ex-Ari Vatanen Group B with the Acropolis behind him for €274,000 (February 2014) has long since passed but at least the prices aren’t stratospheric. What about the Peugeot 205 T16? Well, we’re somewhat luckier here. The important aesthetic interventions resulting from the search for the best dynamic performance profoundly transform the racing model of the Audi Quattro compared to the road-going version. The bad news is that with a competition example changing hands for €2,016,600 at the February auction of Artcurial, a figure that doubled the minimum estimate of €1m-€1.3, I’m fairly positive that the road-going versions will follow suit and I would not be surprised if they broke through the €500,000 barrier the next time one comes onto the market. The good news is that they then settled down at around €400,000. Until that year you could take home a beautiful road-going example for €100-140,000 but just two years later the prices had flown to over €350,000. The engine is an in-line 5-cylinder turbocharged unit producing 540hp.įor the Audi Quattro Sport (or SWB) the right train passed between 20. If we want to go further back in time to 2012, that same amount would have bought you three 037s or an Aurelia B24 Spider America.Įlegant and full of grit, the Audi Sport Quattro built with Group B in mind is rewarded by the lack of excesses that characterize the racing model. ![]() In February, in Paris, a former ex-works Lancia 037 Rally Evo 2 was sold for €548,320 while in June 2020, a street-legal version with 20,000 km on the clock changed hands for €451,000. ![]() It may have been just 17 years ago, but that €35,000 would now probably be worth over €500,000… The prices of the 037 Rally have also exploded in recent years. But you know what? In 2004, chassis number 25, with just 689 km on the clock at the time, found no buyers despite being estimated at €35,000 - €40,000. In 2011, a single-owner car with just 2,200 kilometres on the clock from new changed hands for €116,200 (£100,500), just above the maximum estimate (€90-115,000), in 2017, one of the finest examples remaining with just 1,600 km on the clock reached €492,800, while in February last year, for the last example offered at auction, €540,000 was not enough to exceed the reserve price and take home one that had covered just 3,300 km. ![]() The road-going model is aesthetically very similar but definitely more driveable than the model intended for rally professionals. The Lancia Delta S4 in race version, with its dual supercharged 1,749cc in-line 4-cylinder engine producing 480hp. History and pedigree make all the difference with racing cars and, thanks to the regulations that required manufacturers to build road-going versions (it was impossible to reach the minimum production run of 200 units without producing a road model), we have proof that even the “street” versions are currently objects of desire. The model recently sold by Artcurial – with no significant competitive history – changed hands for €810,560, very close to the €850,000 (£764,357) obtained one year ago by the car that won the RAC Rally in 1985, the first and most important victory of this model. Take for example the Lancia Delta S4, perhaps the most iconic of the group: in 2014 the model with chassis number 209, an ex-works car with a victory at the Rally d’Argentina in 1986, received an offer of €520,000. The recent sale of ** Artcurial called “Parisienne”**confirmed that these dangerous, high performance cars are currently the coolest thing on the market. These weapons were in fact technological monsters destined to leave an indelible mark full of emotions and, unfortunately, dramas too. “I have nothing to offer but mud, toil, and tears” I should say, paraphrasing Winston Churchill’s famous phrase from his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons, when talking about Group B, the pinnacle of the World Rally Championship during the 80s.
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