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Lancia Stratos Zero: The Eternal Futurist
Gautam Sen
BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE LATE 2024
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Some have dubbed it the “most extraordinary concept car ever”. The Lancia Stratos zero remains one of the greatest concept cars, with design ramifications that are so vast that it deserves a book for itself. Not only did it influence almost every Lamborghini since the Countach LP500, and give birth indirectly to the greatest rally weapon, the similarly named Lancia Stratos HF Rally, but its impact was far and wide at every level of design, automotive or otherwise. The use of LEDs, sequential indicators and flat digital screens – all commonplace today – were first suggested in this time machine. Even more astounding was the fact that the Stratos Zero was a drivable device unlike many other flights of fancy from then (or, for that matter, today).
No doubt the Stratos HF Zero is as impractical and, in many ways, as meaningless as most automotive concepts, but at the same time: how many concept cars are there that look even more sensational today than they did half a century ago?
Yes, a few may be named, but did they work? What lovechild, what bloodline did they leave behind? What ideas did they suggest that we could see today in everyday cars? Which other concept starred both in cinemas and art museums?
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ISBN:
978-1-956309-20-1
- Page count: 328
- Images and Illustrations: 455
- Page size: 219 x 304mm
- First published: October 2024
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Author Biography
As a frequent concours judge, author and design consultant, as well as a
co-conspirator with prominent designers such as Marcello Gandini, Tom
Tjaarda, and Gérard Godfroy on several vehicle projects, Gautam Sen has
been the founder or editor of several Indian automotive magazines,
establishing the country’s first car magazine in 1986. Since 2015, a
Vice President with FIVA, Sen has authored several award-winning books: Marcello
Gandini: Maestro of Design, Ballot, The Bertone Collection, Tom
Tjaarda: Master of Proportions, Lamborghini: At the Cutting Edge of
Design, Bugatti: The Italian Decade, and Alfa Romeo SZ Coda Tronca: The
Art of Conservation (all by Dalton Watson Fine Books) and others.
Gautam Sen is resident in Paris, France with his family.
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