Ciao, belter: 24년 만에 Lancia Delta Integrale을 판매하는 이유

After 24 years of ownership, Richard Webber is parting ways with his Delta Integrale Evo

Why we become so emotionally attached to our cars – and how to say goodbye

In opening my garage for a recent visitor, he reacted with a frenzied wonder that suggested the electric door had risen to reveal a live tiger. What lay within was merely 10 cubic metres of metals, plastics, paints, fabrics and leather.
But those materials were cast, stamped, welded, moulded, sprayed, crimped and stitched into the form of a Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evo, and the sum of those parts meant more to him than an object logically should. And his delight is matched by my despair at having to let it go.
I had lusted after an Integrale since its world-beating Group A rallying zenith that bridged the 1980s and 1990s, and the upgraded Evo version’s bullish form, intensive engineering and knack for devouring blacktop put it firmly atop my wish list. I’d set my sights on an Evo 1, the final Integrale to be homologat