A York in Milan

In the last few months I managed to spend a summer afternoon and a cold January night in Milan with this special Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione. The one you see in this video is called ‘Verde York’ and it was released in the summer of 1992 as one of the special limited editions of the ‘Evo’ to celebrate the successes in the World Rally Championship of the Italian brand. It features a distinctive dark green finishing and cream leather upholstery and it was offered with 2 different engine variants: the 16 valves engine of the base Evo or a 8 valve variant with catalytic converter. Around 500 examples were built. There was also a third version sold in 1994 after the insistence of French importers who wanted a 16v ‘Verde York’ but with a catalytic converter, so a small series of cars equipped with the dark green colour on a ‘Evoluzione 2’ base was made (22 examples).