Films – June 19, 2026
Five Years. One Vision: Toyota Supra MkIV
Seeking Solitude with a Lancia in the City that Never Sleeps
by Kris Clewell -
The city that never sleeps does, a little, between about two and five in the morning. Not all of it. But enough. The avenues go quiet, the lights keep cycling for no one, and for a few hours Manhattan belongs to whoever is still awake to take it.
Kevin Chen's Delta Integrale Evoluzione II is the last and most developed car in a line built to win rallies, and win them it did. Through the late eighties and into the nineties the Delta program took six straight World Rally Championship manufacturers' titles. Two liters, turbocharged, sixteen valves, 215 horsepower sent to all four wheels. A car built for Monte Carlo snow and Corsican switchbacks, for the noise and crowds and the worst weather Europe could put in front of it.
That is the strange luxury of a night drive in New York. A car made for the loudest stages in the sport, finding its quietest hours in the one city that is not supposed to give them up. No spectators. No co-driver with pace notes predicting the road ahead. Just the turbo spooling and the next green light just up ahead.
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