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Lancia Stratos HF #1 Hunsruck Rally 1978 Kyosho 1:18

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Lancia Stratos HF #1 Hunsruck Rally 1978 Kyosho 1:18 08130D Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lancia Stratos HF reproduces the wedge-shaped rally car in car number one livery from the 1978 Hunsruck Rally, built on the mid-engine chassis that carried Lancia to three consecutive WRC manufacturers' titles. Panel lines stay tight around the low, angular body, and the rally-spec livery holds sharp decal registration. A striking Group 4 centerpiece for any rally-era collection built around purpose-built competition machinery.
Lancia Stratos HF #1 Hunsruck Rally 1978 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Lancia
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08130D
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About the Lancia Stratos HF #1 Hunsruck Rally 1978 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lancia Stratos HF reproduces the wedge-shaped rally car in car number one livery from the 1978 Hunsruck Rally, built on the mid-engine chassis that carried Lancia to three consecutive WRC manufacturers' titles. Panel lines stay tight around the low, angular body, and the rally-spec livery holds sharp registration. A striking Group 4 centerpiece.

Before the Stratos, no manufacturer had built a car purely to win rallies rather than adapting an existing road model for the job. Bertone's wedge-shaped, mid-engine design changed what a competitive rally car was allowed to look like, and this diecast keeps that shock of a shape intact.

Kyosho's Diecast Stratos in Hunsruck Rally Livery

Decal Registration on a Wedge-Shaped Body

The Stratos's body is short, wide, and almost entirely flat surfaces meeting at sharp angles, geometry that plays to diecast tooling's strengths. Kyosho holds the number-one graphics and sponsor decals in clean registration across those flat panels, with no bleed where the livery crosses a shut line. The wedge nose and the abrupt, near-vertical rear window carry the correct angles rather than a softened, generic sports-car profile.

Cabin and Wheel Detail Under Rally Trim

The rally-spec front lighting pod, a signature feature of competition Stratos cars, is rendered as a distinct applied piece rather than molded into the nose, and the wide-fender flares fill correctly around period-style rally wheels. Inside, the roll cage structure and stripped-out rally cabin come through in enough detail to read as a working competition interior rather than a road car dressed up for the stage.

The First Purpose-Built Rally Car

Bertone's Wedge and a Ferrari-Sourced V6

Marcello Gandini's design for Bertone gave the Stratos its unmistakable wedge shape, and Lancia mounted a Ferrari-sourced Dino V6 amidships, an unusual and expensive engineering choice for a rally car at the time. That mid-engine layout gave the Stratos handling balance no rival could match on loose surfaces, which is precisely why it dominated the sport almost from its debut.

Three Consecutive WRC Manufacturers' Titles

Lancia won the World Rally Championship manufacturers' title three years running in the mid-1970s largely on the strength of the Stratos, a run that established the car as one of the sport's defining machines. Group 4 regulations of that era allowed genuinely exotic, purpose-built machinery in a way later homologation rules never quite matched, and the Stratos remains the clearest example of what that freedom produced.

A Centerpiece for Group 4 Collecting

At around 20 centimeters, the Stratos is compact even by 1:18 standards, a side effect of its genuinely small real-world footprint, and it displays well nose-forward to show off the wedge profile that made it famous. Kyosho's diecast build sits this piece at a fair mid-tier level, trading the sealed-body precision of resin for opening panels and separate applied trim that hold up well on a subject this detail-dense. For a collector chasing the Group 4 era, when rally regulations still permitted purpose-built exotica rather than modified road cars, a well-liveried Stratos like this one belongs near the front of the shelf.

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