The Integral: A Rally Car for the Ages

For many enthusiasts, the Integral is the ultimate rally car experience. With its rich history and advanced technology, it's no wonder that this car has captured the hearts of racing fans around the world. From its origins as a bespoke, high-performance machine to its current status as a highly sought-after collector's item, the Integral remains a benchmark for excellence in motorsport engineering.

In terms of spec, the Integral is a force to be reckoned with. With a range of options available, including the full prepay stage spec, drivers can choose from a variety of components to tailor their car to their specific needs. The brakes, in particular, are worth noting, as they utilize Maturo's renowned setup developed for non-FIA compliant rally cars. This includes upgraded pads and hoses, which work in harmony to provide a stopping power reminiscent of the great Didier Oriole on the colder Torini roads.

One of the key aspects of the Integral is its heritage. As an integral part of the WRC (World Rally Championship) team's development process, this car represents the pinnacle of Group A competition technology. With its advanced aerodynamics, high-performance engine, and sophisticated suspension system, it was designed to tackle even the most demanding rally courses with ease. While modern cars have certainly improved upon these technologies, the Integral remains a testament to the innovative spirit that defined the era.

However, for many enthusiasts, the Integral is not just about raw performance; it's also about the emotional connection they feel with the car. As a bespoke, high-performance machine, every aspect of its development and production was tailored to create an experience unlike any other. Whether it's the precise shifting mechanism or the driver-focused cockpit design, every element was crafted to provide a sense of engagement and connection that's hard to find in modern cars.

In reality, the Integral is far removed from its road-going counterpart. While the standard model may offer a taste of the rally car experience, the true essence of the Integral lies in its track-ready configuration. With its upgraded suspension, aerodynamic package, and engine modifications, this car is designed to deliver an adrenaline-fueled driving experience that's unmatched on any other road.

One of the most striking aspects of the Integral is its gear change mechanism. The high-set gear lever, located near the steering wheel, provides a seamless transition between gears that's both satisfying and effortless. However, as with any rally car, there's a noticeable lag to the shift, which can take some getting used to for those accustomed to more modern transmissions.

In terms of performance, the Integral is nothing short of phenomenal. With a boost level of around 1.7 bar, this car produces an astonishing amount of power that's almost impossible to contain on the road. As you accelerate, the car feels almost alive, as if it's constantly seeking out the next gear and pushing itself to its limits.

But what really sets the Integral apart is its handling. On a set of Michelin Pilot Superstar tires, this car becomes an extension of its driver's body. The instant response to steering inputs is staggering, with the entire car seemingly responding in unison with every subtle movement of the wheel. It's as if the car is "on tiptoes" at all times, ready to pounce on any opportunity to change direction or maintain speed.

For those who've had the privilege of driving a rally car like this, it's impossible not to be moved by its sheer enthusiasm and engagement. Whether you're carving through corners or taking on long straights, every moment behind the wheel is an exhilarating experience that's hard to match with any other car.

Of course, as with all things that truly matter in life, there's a price to pay for owning and driving a car like this. With a sticker price of €340,000 plus taxes, it's clear that this isn't a car for the faint of heart. For those willing to invest time, money, and effort into maintaining and fine-tuning their Integral, however, the rewards are well worth the cost.

In conclusion, the Integral is a true marvel of motorsport engineering, a testament to human ingenuity and determination in the pursuit of excellence. Whether you're a seasoned racing enthusiast or simply someone who appreciates the finer things in life, this car offers an experience unlike any other.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign what does that word mean to you well to me it's more than just the car it's everything that I love about rallying that Italian performance cars about obligation specials six times consecutive World Rally champions for Constructors four times World drivers champions in the world running championship two with Nikki biazion on the Wheel and two with someone who's a real personal Idol of mine the one and only you are Cancun and now here I am in Wales driving a car with a U-Haul button but no really a you Harper this is driving an into growly group a on the road thank you so this is the Maturo Street darling it's the work of a Dutch company with up to 25 years experience with preparing lancia's for rallying and while you might see it as a Resto mod I don't think that really sums it up properly because this is although a car with some very very subtle modernization and they're a very very minor styling tweaks which we'll come on to in a bit that's not really what defines the project this car is about using 1990s rally technology to make a road car drive like your inner Gran Turismo playing personality might think and into growly drives it's about getting that real group a experience on the road of course all group a rally cars are rode legal but what they've tried to do with the stradale is take the very best bits of the group a experience that emotion that performance that driver involvement and combine that with a bit of the bespoke and luxury finishings that are typical of a restaurant you can have it whatever color you want you can have a whatever interior finish you want and they've really looked at every last single detail to try and make this a truly bespoke product for example these door openers here well they look exactly the same as the ones in the poor old ancient Delta but they're not plastic anymore they're machined from Billet aluminum and it's that kind of attention to detail that really marks the stradale out let's start with the body stradale is big in life as either original 16 valve or Evolution road going into Growlers that Maturo then completely dismantle rust and indeed chassis cracking are endemic in these cars with Maturo finding some real Horrors along the way especially if the car has been modified with a much firmer suspension setup once that's done the chassis is vapor blasted after stripping and once the bad Horrors have been dealt with it's then reinforced with over 250 additional welds and plates custom designed roll cage is then added before the whole shell is primed ready for painting a further option is the full carbon fiber body which this green car has reducing the weight of the car down to 1220 kilos just to be clear that's the panels not the overall structure of the car you can reduce that further still if you specify the coarser pack which removes the rear seats and uses thinner glass amongst various measures it looks just like an integrally doesn't it and you know what well that's the point Maturo didn't want to mess with the Aesthetics of the original because let's face it it's such a big part of this car's appeal however there are some subtle differences first of all have a look at the door you can really see a carbon weave there in the paint this car is actually a gorgeous dark green but without the sun on it it kind of looks black these little vents here well they're functional now they're not on the standard Road car these mirrors are molded on the original Groove pay rally mirrors they're still work in development a little bit look towards the back of the car that's a group a fuel filler the rear wing is fixed now in that position it's not adjustable like the original car and you can see the solid supports have the little M logo on the rear tailgate there's a crease across the boot and that's been pushed up slightly to be in line with the rear lights and those rear lights have been modernized as well the wheels well there's a nice little geeky story about those the 16 valve Road car had four wheel nuts the evos had five wheel nuts but the group a rally cars they already they always had four and that's why this car's got four even though it's an EVO these are LED headlamps far more effective than the original always a good thing the big blocky orange indicators they've gone there's a modern indicator unit behind the mesh talking of the mesh That's All Uniform now rather than being different types on the original car and this carbon piece here well that extends under the engine protecting like a sump guard so as you can see a lot of little differences all together they add up to a car with its own unique flavor it's much the same story on the inside once inside first thing that really strikes you is these seats now they're mounted much lower than a standard integrally and that really helps the driving position because you tend to sit quite high in an integrally I think and being quite tall I always feel like I'm almost peering out underneath the windscreen rail this color inspired by the Delta S4 stradale if you've ever seen a picture of one of those inside you'll see the reference our bath two-stroke steering wheel it is it's a really good rally-esque driving position the pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to that um gear shift obviously here this lovely exposed mechanism here with this kind of uh casting on on the top hydraulic handbrake um you have to release it with a toggle switch here but obviously when you're up and running you can just give that A Yank if you want to get the rear axle to come round the dials well they've got the material logo on them but they're essentially what was fitted to the group a car the rest of the Interior pretty basic instrumentation really as you'd expect of a competition car but the way it works it's got a lovely kind of tactile feel to it the all-important new hard button doesn't do anything on this car as of yet but the idea is once they have the dog box in the car you'll be able to run 400 horsepower and hitting dear old U-Haul there will liberate that power other than that what really dominates the cabin once you take a look around is this roll cage it's a really serious piece of work one piece that is removable is this bar because without taking that out sitting in the back is going to be rather tricky indeed other than that it's uh recognizable as the old Delta but there are a lot of changes to materials there's all this carbon this Alcantara um as I mentioned this the door opener is now Billet aluminum instead of plastic the switch gear is pretty basic it's uh it's functional but it's clearly been made with a lot of attention to detail the engine in the stradale is similar to that used in matura's group a rally car Recreations including its steel conrods forged pistons a group a Turbocharger and one of the few concessions to modernity and modern fully programmable ECU building the car this way with period modifications does inevitably mean there's more turbo lag than you'd might find in a Modern Performance turbocharged car but it's truly authentic to how the original would have felt as we'll see the stradale can be upgraded in all the key departments to full group a specification and the engine is no different the changes are then largely to the cylinder head and the camshafts and take the stradali's output up from 360 to around 400 brake horsepower obviously the first thing you notice is the volume levels I mean it is a noisy car to be in it if not quite rally car levels of sound not far short I would say we're talking 80. I mean obviously it's an immensely visceral experience right from the off the driving position can be tailored to any customer but it's still it still has that familiar Italian driving position I don't mind it the steering wheel is not as flat as it is on the standard car and you can get this real close to the wheel rally driving position it's really really good pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to it for healing toe you can't help it literally thank you I said to myself I was going to be sensible and just talk to the camera but yeah sorry about that anyway tell you the clutch is really aggressive it's quite noisy when you've got the pedal depressed and Maturo are looking at installing one that's uh quieter and a little bit more tolerant should we say personally I don't mind it I think it it really fits the characters of the car World steering really nicely weighted not quite as quick from the straight ahead and turning as you might expect but just really it is beautiful the feedback is absolutely fantastic in fact on the options list there's the Carlos science steering rack I think that's possibly the best name for an option I have ever seen on any options list anyway this dates back to 93 when science had that ill-fated year with the Jolly Club team and developed a quicker ratio steering rack as you might imagine the integrali's drivetrain is substantially upgraded to cope with the additional forces being put through it drive shafts are strengthened and plated discs front and rear replace the standard cars torsion rear fitment and as you guessed it you can have the full prepay stage spec as well from the options list as for the brakes the stradalis use the setup developed by Maturo for their non-fia compliant rally cars which means the 335 mil front discs with 272 mil rears these come with upgraded pads and hoses of course but feel like you need to stop like Didier Oriole on the colder torini and there's maturo's re-engineered air bath group a WRC setup which this car has you get group a bath uprights wishbones hubs bearings and of course the brakes themselves and oh yes it costs 35 000 Euros plus taxes when we about the integral if you think about a lot of things and of course like any group a car what you see with the road car is a long way from what in reality the all-conquering flame belching group a competition version was now integral is no different to anything else escort Cosworth STI Impreza Celica GT4 they were all the same the good pay car was an incredibly bespoke very Advanced for its time bit of Kit probably costing eight or nine times the price of the road car and built by some of the finest Motorsport engineers in the business now why am I saying this well the point is this drive a standard integrally today yes it's a great car there's the romance of it it's a very emotional emotive experience but it shows its age of course it has all old cars do there's nothing wrong in that as long as you approach it with that mindset it's fine this isn't the person where the tackle needs a growling I love the intergali I love everything about it it's a wonderful car but it's also an old car technology moves on and I think the key thing here is that there's a whole generation of people who perhaps form their impression of the integrally from driving it on communicates like Gran Turismo and watching footage of the rally ones and if you're expecting the road car to be like one of those you are probably going to be disappointed which is exactly where this car comes in gear change is just delicious you've got this really high set gear lever here right near the steering wheel change it really quickly to well there is some lag it feels quite old school actually which churro used the original turbo so I guess that's no surprise previously inside for better response but the character of the car is kind of as you would imagine it's very very boost heavy boost to about 1.7 bar apparently a lot more than the standard Road car I ever did obviously to get that 360. break horsepower but I think the biggest thing you notice I mean this car's on Michelin pilot score four s's so not a particularly aggressive or sticky tire but the car just feels like he's like a cat right up on all four ports literally on tiptoes at every corner you turn the wheel the whole thing just moves it just wants to change direction it's so evolving feels so enthusiastic and that's the thing you just literally cannot drive anywhere without shall we say a certain amount of verb and enthusiasm s absolutely physically impossible even if I wanted to I couldn't in the grip that was an attraction are amazing you'd definitely guess it was on a stickier tire than this oh the pedals are so good for healing Towing Chuck it in it's a tiny bit of body roll I've got the damping set about halfway although that's not really meant for Comfort it's a motorsport setup so it's for fine tuning it's not about getting a comfortable Road setting and then a track setting it's just about fine tuning the Maturo stradali is as fascinating as it is downright gorgeous and desirable I mean it looks and feels like an integrally it even smells one but just let those group a rally cars of over 30 years ago and look this is the key point it doesn't drive anything like the standard road going into growly sure the essence remains but the brutally effective way it can fly down a road and the concentrated hit of adrenaline provides the sheer physicality and the precise demands it makes on a driver well they're pure group a rally car and that's like nothing else yes well it probably won't be surprised to hear that the stradale costs from wait for it 340 000 Euros plus taxes but look what rester mod ever seems to start at less than 300 000 Euros to be honest that just seems to be what these things cost it's a rich man or Woman's World you just have to consider the man hours the components and the craftsmanship that go into each one of these cars and believe me there aren't going to be many of them made let's face it this is the integrally you always dreamed of owning and driving and for that alone it has to be worth an awful lot of moneyforeign what does that word mean to you well to me it's more than just the car it's everything that I love about rallying that Italian performance cars about obligation specials six times consecutive World Rally champions for Constructors four times World drivers champions in the world running championship two with Nikki biazion on the Wheel and two with someone who's a real personal Idol of mine the one and only you are Cancun and now here I am in Wales driving a car with a U-Haul button but no really a you Harper this is driving an into growly group a on the road thank you so this is the Maturo Street darling it's the work of a Dutch company with up to 25 years experience with preparing lancia's for rallying and while you might see it as a Resto mod I don't think that really sums it up properly because this is although a car with some very very subtle modernization and they're a very very minor styling tweaks which we'll come on to in a bit that's not really what defines the project this car is about using 1990s rally technology to make a road car drive like your inner Gran Turismo playing personality might think and into growly drives it's about getting that real group a experience on the road of course all group a rally cars are rode legal but what they've tried to do with the stradale is take the very best bits of the group a experience that emotion that performance that driver involvement and combine that with a bit of the bespoke and luxury finishings that are typical of a restaurant you can have it whatever color you want you can have a whatever interior finish you want and they've really looked at every last single detail to try and make this a truly bespoke product for example these door openers here well they look exactly the same as the ones in the poor old ancient Delta but they're not plastic anymore they're machined from Billet aluminum and it's that kind of attention to detail that really marks the stradale out let's start with the body stradale is big in life as either original 16 valve or Evolution road going into Growlers that Maturo then completely dismantle rust and indeed chassis cracking are endemic in these cars with Maturo finding some real Horrors along the way especially if the car has been modified with a much firmer suspension setup once that's done the chassis is vapor blasted after stripping and once the bad Horrors have been dealt with it's then reinforced with over 250 additional welds and plates custom designed roll cage is then added before the whole shell is primed ready for painting a further option is the full carbon fiber body which this green car has reducing the weight of the car down to 1220 kilos just to be clear that's the panels not the overall structure of the car you can reduce that further still if you specify the coarser pack which removes the rear seats and uses thinner glass amongst various measures it looks just like an integrally doesn't it and you know what well that's the point Maturo didn't want to mess with the Aesthetics of the original because let's face it it's such a big part of this car's appeal however there are some subtle differences first of all have a look at the door you can really see a carbon weave there in the paint this car is actually a gorgeous dark green but without the sun on it it kind of looks black these little vents here well they're functional now they're not on the standard Road car these mirrors are molded on the original Groove pay rally mirrors they're still work in development a little bit look towards the back of the car that's a group a fuel filler the rear wing is fixed now in that position it's not adjustable like the original car and you can see the solid supports have the little M logo on the rear tailgate there's a crease across the boot and that's been pushed up slightly to be in line with the rear lights and those rear lights have been modernized as well the wheels well there's a nice little geeky story about those the 16 valve Road car had four wheel nuts the evos had five wheel nuts but the group a rally cars they already they always had four and that's why this car's got four even though it's an EVO these are LED headlamps far more effective than the original always a good thing the big blocky orange indicators they've gone there's a modern indicator unit behind the mesh talking of the mesh That's All Uniform now rather than being different types on the original car and this carbon piece here well that extends under the engine protecting like a sump guard so as you can see a lot of little differences all together they add up to a car with its own unique flavor it's much the same story on the inside once inside first thing that really strikes you is these seats now they're mounted much lower than a standard integrally and that really helps the driving position because you tend to sit quite high in an integrally I think and being quite tall I always feel like I'm almost peering out underneath the windscreen rail this color inspired by the Delta S4 stradale if you've ever seen a picture of one of those inside you'll see the reference our bath two-stroke steering wheel it is it's a really good rally-esque driving position the pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to that um gear shift obviously here this lovely exposed mechanism here with this kind of uh casting on on the top hydraulic handbrake um you have to release it with a toggle switch here but obviously when you're up and running you can just give that A Yank if you want to get the rear axle to come round the dials well they've got the material logo on them but they're essentially what was fitted to the group a car the rest of the Interior pretty basic instrumentation really as you'd expect of a competition car but the way it works it's got a lovely kind of tactile feel to it the all-important new hard button doesn't do anything on this car as of yet but the idea is once they have the dog box in the car you'll be able to run 400 horsepower and hitting dear old U-Haul there will liberate that power other than that what really dominates the cabin once you take a look around is this roll cage it's a really serious piece of work one piece that is removable is this bar because without taking that out sitting in the back is going to be rather tricky indeed other than that it's uh recognizable as the old Delta but there are a lot of changes to materials there's all this carbon this Alcantara um as I mentioned this the door opener is now Billet aluminum instead of plastic the switch gear is pretty basic it's uh it's functional but it's clearly been made with a lot of attention to detail the engine in the stradale is similar to that used in matura's group a rally car Recreations including its steel conrods forged pistons a group a Turbocharger and one of the few concessions to modernity and modern fully programmable ECU building the car this way with period modifications does inevitably mean there's more turbo lag than you'd might find in a Modern Performance turbocharged car but it's truly authentic to how the original would have felt as we'll see the stradale can be upgraded in all the key departments to full group a specification and the engine is no different the changes are then largely to the cylinder head and the camshafts and take the stradali's output up from 360 to around 400 brake horsepower obviously the first thing you notice is the volume levels I mean it is a noisy car to be in it if not quite rally car levels of sound not far short I would say we're talking 80. I mean obviously it's an immensely visceral experience right from the off the driving position can be tailored to any customer but it's still it still has that familiar Italian driving position I don't mind it the steering wheel is not as flat as it is on the standard car and you can get this real close to the wheel rally driving position it's really really good pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to it for healing toe you can't help it literally thank you I said to myself I was going to be sensible and just talk to the camera but yeah sorry about that anyway tell you the clutch is really aggressive it's quite noisy when you've got the pedal depressed and Maturo are looking at installing one that's uh quieter and a little bit more tolerant should we say personally I don't mind it I think it it really fits the characters of the car World steering really nicely weighted not quite as quick from the straight ahead and turning as you might expect but just really it is beautiful the feedback is absolutely fantastic in fact on the options list there's the Carlos science steering rack I think that's possibly the best name for an option I have ever seen on any options list anyway this dates back to 93 when science had that ill-fated year with the Jolly Club team and developed a quicker ratio steering rack as you might imagine the integrali's drivetrain is substantially upgraded to cope with the additional forces being put through it drive shafts are strengthened and plated discs front and rear replace the standard cars torsion rear fitment and as you guessed it you can have the full prepay stage spec as well from the options list as for the brakes the stradalis use the setup developed by Maturo for their non-fia compliant rally cars which means the 335 mil front discs with 272 mil rears these come with upgraded pads and hoses of course but feel like you need to stop like Didier Oriole on the colder torini and there's maturo's re-engineered air bath group a WRC setup which this car has you get group a bath uprights wishbones hubs bearings and of course the brakes themselves and oh yes it costs 35 000 Euros plus taxes when we about the integral if you think about a lot of things and of course like any group a car what you see with the road car is a long way from what in reality the all-conquering flame belching group a competition version was now integral is no different to anything else escort Cosworth STI Impreza Celica GT4 they were all the same the good pay car was an incredibly bespoke very Advanced for its time bit of Kit probably costing eight or nine times the price of the road car and built by some of the finest Motorsport engineers in the business now why am I saying this well the point is this drive a standard integrally today yes it's a great car there's the romance of it it's a very emotional emotive experience but it shows its age of course it has all old cars do there's nothing wrong in that as long as you approach it with that mindset it's fine this isn't the person where the tackle needs a growling I love the intergali I love everything about it it's a wonderful car but it's also an old car technology moves on and I think the key thing here is that there's a whole generation of people who perhaps form their impression of the integrally from driving it on communicates like Gran Turismo and watching footage of the rally ones and if you're expecting the road car to be like one of those you are probably going to be disappointed which is exactly where this car comes in gear change is just delicious you've got this really high set gear lever here right near the steering wheel change it really quickly to well there is some lag it feels quite old school actually which churro used the original turbo so I guess that's no surprise previously inside for better response but the character of the car is kind of as you would imagine it's very very boost heavy boost to about 1.7 bar apparently a lot more than the standard Road car I ever did obviously to get that 360. break horsepower but I think the biggest thing you notice I mean this car's on Michelin pilot score four s's so not a particularly aggressive or sticky tire but the car just feels like he's like a cat right up on all four ports literally on tiptoes at every corner you turn the wheel the whole thing just moves it just wants to change direction it's so evolving feels so enthusiastic and that's the thing you just literally cannot drive anywhere without shall we say a certain amount of verb and enthusiasm s absolutely physically impossible even if I wanted to I couldn't in the grip that was an attraction are amazing you'd definitely guess it was on a stickier tire than this oh the pedals are so good for healing Towing Chuck it in it's a tiny bit of body roll I've got the damping set about halfway although that's not really meant for Comfort it's a motorsport setup so it's for fine tuning it's not about getting a comfortable Road setting and then a track setting it's just about fine tuning the Maturo stradali is as fascinating as it is downright gorgeous and desirable I mean it looks and feels like an integrally it even smells one but just let those group a rally cars of over 30 years ago and look this is the key point it doesn't drive anything like the standard road going into growly sure the essence remains but the brutally effective way it can fly down a road and the concentrated hit of adrenaline provides the sheer physicality and the precise demands it makes on a driver well they're pure group a rally car and that's like nothing else yes well it probably won't be surprised to hear that the stradale costs from wait for it 340 000 Euros plus taxes but look what rester mod ever seems to start at less than 300 000 Euros to be honest that just seems to be what these things cost it's a rich man or Woman's World you just have to consider the man hours the components and the craftsmanship that go into each one of these cars and believe me there aren't going to be many of them made let's face it this is the integrally you always dreamed of owning and driving and for that alone it has to be worth an awful lot of moneyforeign what does that word mean to you well to me it's more than just the car it's everything that I love about rallying that Italian performance cars about obligation specials six times consecutive World Rally champions for Constructors four times World drivers champions in the world running championship two with Nikki biazion on the Wheel and two with someone who's a real personal Idol of mine the one and only you are Cancun and now here I am in Wales driving a car with a U-Haul button but no really a you Harper this is driving an into growly group a on the road thank you so this is the Maturo Street darling it's the work of a Dutch company with up to 25 years experience with preparing lancia's for rallying and while you might see it as a Resto mod I don't think that really sums it up properly because this is although a car with some very very subtle modernization and they're a very very minor styling tweaks which we'll come on to in a bit that's not really what defines the project this car is about using 1990s rally technology to make a road car drive like your inner Gran Turismo playing personality might think and into growly drives it's about getting that real group a experience on the road of course all group a rally cars are rode legal but what they've tried to do with the stradale is take the very best bits of the group a experience that emotion that performance that driver involvement and combine that with a bit of the bespoke and luxury finishings that are typical of a restaurant you can have it whatever color you want you can have a whatever interior finish you want and they've really looked at every last single detail to try and make this a truly bespoke product for example these door openers here well they look exactly the same as the ones in the poor old ancient Delta but they're not plastic anymore they're machined from Billet aluminum and it's that kind of attention to detail that really marks the stradale out let's start with the body stradale is big in life as either original 16 valve or Evolution road going into Growlers that Maturo then completely dismantle rust and indeed chassis cracking are endemic in these cars with Maturo finding some real Horrors along the way especially if the car has been modified with a much firmer suspension setup once that's done the chassis is vapor blasted after stripping and once the bad Horrors have been dealt with it's then reinforced with over 250 additional welds and plates custom designed roll cage is then added before the whole shell is primed ready for painting a further option is the full carbon fiber body which this green car has reducing the weight of the car down to 1220 kilos just to be clear that's the panels not the overall structure of the car you can reduce that further still if you specify the coarser pack which removes the rear seats and uses thinner glass amongst various measures it looks just like an integrally doesn't it and you know what well that's the point Maturo didn't want to mess with the Aesthetics of the original because let's face it it's such a big part of this car's appeal however there are some subtle differences first of all have a look at the door you can really see a carbon weave there in the paint this car is actually a gorgeous dark green but without the sun on it it kind of looks black these little vents here well they're functional now they're not on the standard Road car these mirrors are molded on the original Groove pay rally mirrors they're still work in development a little bit look towards the back of the car that's a group a fuel filler the rear wing is fixed now in that position it's not adjustable like the original car and you can see the solid supports have the little M logo on the rear tailgate there's a crease across the boot and that's been pushed up slightly to be in line with the rear lights and those rear lights have been modernized as well the wheels well there's a nice little geeky story about those the 16 valve Road car had four wheel nuts the evos had five wheel nuts but the group a rally cars they already they always had four and that's why this car's got four even though it's an EVO these are LED headlamps far more effective than the original always a good thing the big blocky orange indicators they've gone there's a modern indicator unit behind the mesh talking of the mesh That's All Uniform now rather than being different types on the original car and this carbon piece here well that extends under the engine protecting like a sump guard so as you can see a lot of little differences all together they add up to a car with its own unique flavor it's much the same story on the inside once inside first thing that really strikes you is these seats now they're mounted much lower than a standard integrally and that really helps the driving position because you tend to sit quite high in an integrally I think and being quite tall I always feel like I'm almost peering out underneath the windscreen rail this color inspired by the Delta S4 stradale if you've ever seen a picture of one of those inside you'll see the reference our bath two-stroke steering wheel it is it's a really good rally-esque driving position the pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to that um gear shift obviously here this lovely exposed mechanism here with this kind of uh casting on on the top hydraulic handbrake um you have to release it with a toggle switch here but obviously when you're up and running you can just give that A Yank if you want to get the rear axle to come round the dials well they've got the material logo on them but they're essentially what was fitted to the group a car the rest of the Interior pretty basic instrumentation really as you'd expect of a competition car but the way it works it's got a lovely kind of tactile feel to it the all-important new hard button doesn't do anything on this car as of yet but the idea is once they have the dog box in the car you'll be able to run 400 horsepower and hitting dear old U-Haul there will liberate that power other than that what really dominates the cabin once you take a look around is this roll cage it's a really serious piece of work one piece that is removable is this bar because without taking that out sitting in the back is going to be rather tricky indeed other than that it's uh recognizable as the old Delta but there are a lot of changes to materials there's all this carbon this Alcantara um as I mentioned this the door opener is now Billet aluminum instead of plastic the switch gear is pretty basic it's uh it's functional but it's clearly been made with a lot of attention to detail the engine in the stradale is similar to that used in matura's group a rally car Recreations including its steel conrods forged pistons a group a Turbocharger and one of the few concessions to modernity and modern fully programmable ECU building the car this way with period modifications does inevitably mean there's more turbo lag than you'd might find in a Modern Performance turbocharged car but it's truly authentic to how the original would have felt as we'll see the stradale can be upgraded in all the key departments to full group a specification and the engine is no different the changes are then largely to the cylinder head and the camshafts and take the stradali's output up from 360 to around 400 brake horsepower obviously the first thing you notice is the volume levels I mean it is a noisy car to be in it if not quite rally car levels of sound not far short I would say we're talking 80. I mean obviously it's an immensely visceral experience right from the off the driving position can be tailored to any customer but it's still it still has that familiar Italian driving position I don't mind it the steering wheel is not as flat as it is on the standard car and you can get this real close to the wheel rally driving position it's really really good pedals are quite flat but you soon get used to it for healing toe you can't help it literally thank you I said to myself I was going to be sensible and just talk to the camera but yeah sorry about that anyway tell you the clutch is really aggressive it's quite noisy when you've got the pedal depressed and Maturo are looking at installing one that's uh quieter and a little bit more tolerant should we say personally I don't mind it I think it it really fits the characters of the car World steering really nicely weighted not quite as quick from the straight ahead and turning as you might expect but just really it is beautiful the feedback is absolutely fantastic in fact on the options list there's the Carlos science steering rack I think that's possibly the best name for an option I have ever seen on any options list anyway this dates back to 93 when science had that ill-fated year with the Jolly Club team and developed a quicker ratio steering rack as you might imagine the integrali's drivetrain is substantially upgraded to cope with the additional forces being put through it drive shafts are strengthened and plated discs front and rear replace the standard cars torsion rear fitment and as you guessed it you can have the full prepay stage spec as well from the options list as for the brakes the stradalis use the setup developed by Maturo for their non-fia compliant rally cars which means the 335 mil front discs with 272 mil rears these come with upgraded pads and hoses of course but feel like you need to stop like Didier Oriole on the colder torini and there's maturo's re-engineered air bath group a WRC setup which this car has you get group a bath uprights wishbones hubs bearings and of course the brakes themselves and oh yes it costs 35 000 Euros plus taxes when we about the integral if you think about a lot of things and of course like any group a car what you see with the road car is a long way from what in reality the all-conquering flame belching group a competition version was now integral is no different to anything else escort Cosworth STI Impreza Celica GT4 they were all the same the good pay car was an incredibly bespoke very Advanced for its time bit of Kit probably costing eight or nine times the price of the road car and built by some of the finest Motorsport engineers in the business now why am I saying this well the point is this drive a standard integrally today yes it's a great car there's the romance of it it's a very emotional emotive experience but it shows its age of course it has all old cars do there's nothing wrong in that as long as you approach it with that mindset it's fine this isn't the person where the tackle needs a growling I love the intergali I love everything about it it's a wonderful car but it's also an old car technology moves on and I think the key thing here is that there's a whole generation of people who perhaps form their impression of the integrally from driving it on communicates like Gran Turismo and watching footage of the rally ones and if you're expecting the road car to be like one of those you are probably going to be disappointed which is exactly where this car comes in gear change is just delicious you've got this really high set gear lever here right near the steering wheel change it really quickly to well there is some lag it feels quite old school actually which churro used the original turbo so I guess that's no surprise previously inside for better response but the character of the car is kind of as you would imagine it's very very boost heavy boost to about 1.7 bar apparently a lot more than the standard Road car I ever did obviously to get that 360. break horsepower but I think the biggest thing you notice I mean this car's on Michelin pilot score four s's so not a particularly aggressive or sticky tire but the car just feels like he's like a cat right up on all four ports literally on tiptoes at every corner you turn the wheel the whole thing just moves it just wants to change direction it's so evolving feels so enthusiastic and that's the thing you just literally cannot drive anywhere without shall we say a certain amount of verb and enthusiasm s absolutely physically impossible even if I wanted to I couldn't in the grip that was an attraction are amazing you'd definitely guess it was on a stickier tire than this oh the pedals are so good for healing Towing Chuck it in it's a tiny bit of body roll I've got the damping set about halfway although that's not really meant for Comfort it's a motorsport setup so it's for fine tuning it's not about getting a comfortable Road setting and then a track setting it's just about fine tuning the Maturo stradali is as fascinating as it is downright gorgeous and desirable I mean it looks and feels like an integrally it even smells one but just let those group a rally cars of over 30 years ago and look this is the key point it doesn't drive anything like the standard road going into growly sure the essence remains but the brutally effective way it can fly down a road and the concentrated hit of adrenaline provides the sheer physicality and the precise demands it makes on a driver well they're pure group a rally car and that's like nothing else yes well it probably won't be surprised to hear that the stradale costs from wait for it 340 000 Euros plus taxes but look what rester mod ever seems to start at less than 300 000 Euros to be honest that just seems to be what these things cost it's a rich man or Woman's World you just have to consider the man hours the components and the craftsmanship that go into each one of these cars and believe me there aren't going to be many of them made let's face it this is the integrally you always dreamed of owning and driving and for that alone it has to be worth an awful lot of money\n"