Photo: Shane Baxley
The Lancia Stratos is a really cool car. Not only it dominated the rallying scene for many years, but it did so with a Ferrari-developed engine behind the seats and an outlandish design that combines wedge-shaped cues with aviation-inspired features.
Granted, it wasn't as radical as the Stratos Zero concept that preceded it, but it looked just as crazy and ahead of its time as the Lamborghini Countach. Well, what do you know - Marcello Gandini designed both while at Bertone!
Speaking of outlandish, someone digitally reimagined the Stratos into a futuristic supercar. The Bertone Stratos BAX you see here is the work of Shane Baxley and it would look at home in Cyberpunk 2077. Could it also be the time machine in the next installment of the "Back into the Future" franchise?
Anyway, the Stratos BAX is just as wild as the Stratos Zero concept that Bertone rolled out in 1970. It still features a wedge-shaped design overall and sports the almost flat windscreen and rear window that helped the Stratos Zero make headlines around the world. But Baxley also retained the pop-up headlamps of the production Stratos, which is really cool given that this automotive feature has been dropped altogether in the early 1990s.
And I just love the aggressive carbon-fiber diffuser, the center-mounted exhausts, and the cut-out bumper sides that expose the rear tires. Ah yes, it also sports a rear lightbar, the next best thing to good ol' fashioned round taillights. And he even rendered one in pearl pink. It doesn't get any hotter than this!
So whatever happened to the actual Lancia Stratos? Well, Lancia discontinued the wedge-shaped coupe in 1978 after fewer than 500 units rolled off the assembly line. The Stratos became a collector's item almost instantly, but it took Marcello Gandini more than 20 years to come up with a follow-up. It happened in 2000 when he unveiled the Stola S81.
Pininfarina created a newer and more accurate interpretation of the original Stratos in 2018. Built as a one-off model for billionaire businessman Michael Stoschek, the New Stratos was based on the Ferrari F430 and fitted with the same 4.3-liter V8 engine. Not bad for a spiritual successor built outside the Lancia factory.
Speaking of outlandish, someone digitally reimagined the Stratos into a futuristic supercar. The Bertone Stratos BAX you see here is the work of Shane Baxley and it would look at home in Cyberpunk 2077. Could it also be the time machine in the next installment of the "Back into the Future" franchise?
Anyway, the Stratos BAX is just as wild as the Stratos Zero concept that Bertone rolled out in 1970. It still features a wedge-shaped design overall and sports the almost flat windscreen and rear window that helped the Stratos Zero make headlines around the world. But Baxley also retained the pop-up headlamps of the production Stratos, which is really cool given that this automotive feature has been dropped altogether in the early 1990s.
And I just love the aggressive carbon-fiber diffuser, the center-mounted exhausts, and the cut-out bumper sides that expose the rear tires. Ah yes, it also sports a rear lightbar, the next best thing to good ol' fashioned round taillights. And he even rendered one in pearl pink. It doesn't get any hotter than this!
So whatever happened to the actual Lancia Stratos? Well, Lancia discontinued the wedge-shaped coupe in 1978 after fewer than 500 units rolled off the assembly line. The Stratos became a collector's item almost instantly, but it took Marcello Gandini more than 20 years to come up with a follow-up. It happened in 2000 when he unveiled the Stola S81.
Pininfarina created a newer and more accurate interpretation of the original Stratos in 2018. Built as a one-off model for billionaire businessman Michael Stoschek, the New Stratos was based on the Ferrari F430 and fitted with the same 4.3-liter V8 engine. Not bad for a spiritual successor built outside the Lancia factory.
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