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While the majority of Delta models where ordinary, compact family cars, the most famous model was the Delta HF integrale, a 4WD sport car with a very powerful engine. A tweaked version of the HF dominated for years the World Rally Championship and has won the Constructors Championship six times in a sequence (1987-1992), which is a record.

The Lancia Delta S4 , while sharing the name and visual resemblance, was a "Group B" race car designed specifically for rallying, and entirely different from the commercial Delta in terms of construction and performance.

The Delta was voted Car of the Year in 1980.

In 1993 the successor—the so-called Delta Nuova—based on the Fiat Tipo platform, was introduced. This model was not sold in the United Kingdom, not only because it was not available in right hand drive, even though the Delta Integrale was left hand drive only, but also because the brand had become increasingly unpopular in that country owing to rust. Lancia finally abandoned the UK, and other right hand drive markets in 1994.

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Even today, one can find old HFs rallying around ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer , with modified versions with 300 to 500 hpThe horsepower hp is the name of several non-metric units of power. In scientific discourse the horsepower is rarely used due to the various definitions and the existence of an SI unit for power, the watt (W). However, the idea of horsepower persists as a (224 to (373 kW).

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