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Lancia 037 Martini #8 A. Bettega / M. Perissinot Safari Rally 1985 Kyosho 1:18

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Lancia 037 Martini #8 A. Bettega / M. Perissinot Safari Rally 1985 Kyosho 1:18 08306J Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lancia 037 reproduces the Martini-liveried #8 car driven by Attilio Bettega and Maurizio Perissinot in the demanding 1985 Safari Rally. The rear-wheel-drive Group B homologation special, built by Abarth, carries crisp stripe graphics, correct rally stance, and genuine zinc alloy heft. A detailed, mid-tier rally replica for collectors building a Group B display around the era's last great rear-driven world champion car.
Lancia 037 Martini #8 A. Bettega / M. Perissinot Safari Rally 1985 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Lancia
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
08306J
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About the Lancia 037 Martini #8 A. Bettega / M. Perissinot Safari Rally 1985 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lancia 037 reproduces the Martini-liveried #8 car of Attilio Bettega and Maurizio Perissinot from the grueling 1985 Safari Rally. The rear-wheel-drive Group B homologation special, built by Abarth, carries sharp stripe graphics and genuine diecast heft, a compelling anchor for a Group B rally display.

By 1985, Group B rallying belonged increasingly to four-wheel-drive machinery, yet Lancia kept fielding the 037 against that tide. This Martini-liveried example puts Kyosho's rally-focused diecast tooling to work on one of the sport's harshest proving grounds, a rougher test than most rally liveries ever face once they reach a shelf.

Kyosho's 1:18 Lancia 037 and the Martini Livery

Martini Stripes and Number 8 Graphics

The white body carries Martini's dark blue and light blue stripes, with the number 8 sitting clean on the doors and roofline. Kyosho keeps the sponsor decals flat and precisely registered, with no bleed where one stripe meets the next and no wander along the car's waistline. Bettega and Perissinot's names appear correctly on the windscreen banner, a small detail that separates a livery-accurate rally replica from a generic race-number reskin.

Diecast Weight and Panel Fit

Lift the model and the zinc alloy body announces itself at once, a density no resin casting at this scale can match. The bonnet and door lines sit tight and even, evidence of tooling that holds its shut lines consistent across a production run. Direct light across the hood shows the paint sitting flat with no orange-peel texture visible at typical shelf viewing distance, a decent mark of finishing at this price tier. At roughly 22 centimeters, the 037 sits compactly on a shelf, true to a car that always looked larger in period photos than its flared bodywork actually measured.

Group B's Last Rear-Wheel-Drive Champion

Abarth's Supercharged Homologation Special

Abarth built the 037 around a supercharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder mounted amidships, a compact rear-wheel-drive homologation special that carried Lancia to the 1983 World Rally Championship manufacturers' title. It remains the last time a rear-driven car won that title outright, a fact that gives every 037 replica a certain finality baked into its story. The styling borrowed Pininfarina-influenced lines from the Beta Monte Carlo, but underneath sat a purpose-built tubular chassis with none of the road car's compromises.

Facing Four-Wheel Drive on the Safari's Loose Roads

By the time this car lined up for the 1985 Safari Rally, four-wheel-drive rivals from Audi and Peugeot were reshaping Group B, and the event's long, loose, dust-choked stages punished any car without power sent to all four corners. Kenya's rally has always demanded distance-running durability as much as outright pace. Fielding a rear-driven 037 there in 1985 was as much a statement of commitment as a competitive gamble, and that context is worth knowing before judging the model purely as a trophy piece. It also explains why this variant sits at a mid-tier price rather than the premium end of rally diecast, with the tooling investment going into livery accuracy and stance rather than opening panels.

Where This 037 Fits a Group B Display

This Martini car works best alongside other Group B homologation specials from the same handful of seasons, when manufacturers threw increasingly extreme machinery at increasingly extreme rallies. Displayed next to a four-wheel-drive Audi Quattro or Peugeot 205 T16, it tells the story of a category caught mid-revolution. Entry-level rally diecast rarely captures livery this cleanly, and Kyosho's mid-tier pricing puts a genuinely detailed 1985 Safari Rally replica within reach of a collector building that specific chapter of rally history. Kept out of direct sunlight and dust, the paint and decals should hold their sharpness for years, a practical point worth weighing against cheaper alternatives that fade sooner.

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