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Lancia 037 Martini #1 W. Rohrl / C. Geistdorfer Winner Rally Monte Carlo 1983 Night Version Kyosho 1:18

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Lancia 037 Martini #1 W. Rohrl / C. Geistdorfer Winner Rally Monte Carlo 1983 Night Version Kyosho 1:18 08306A Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lancia 037 reproduces the Martini-liveried car driven by Walter Rohrl and Christian Geistdorfer to victory at the 1983 Monte Carlo Rally. This Night Version carries the car's stage lighting configuration, with opening doors, bonnet and boot revealing a stripped-down rally interior. The 037 remains the last rear-wheel-drive car to win a World Rally Championship title.
Lancia 037 Martini #1 W. Rohrl / C. Geistdorfer Winner Rally Monte Carlo 1983 Night Version Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Lancia
Model Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08306A
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About the Lancia 037 Martini #1 W. Rohrl / C. Geistdorfer Winner Rally Monte Carlo 1983 Night Version Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast reproduces the Lancia 037 Martini driven by Walter Rohrl and Christian Geistdorfer to victory at the 1983 Monte Carlo Rally, finished as a Night Version with the car's stage lighting configuration. The 037 remains the last rear-wheel-drive car to win a World Rally Championship title.

The Lancia 037's World Rally Championship title in 1983 came at the exact moment four-wheel drive was about to make rear-wheel-drive rally cars obsolete, which makes Rohrl and Geistdorfer's Monte Carlo win one of the sport's genuine last stands. Kyosho's 1:18 diecast marks that victory in its Night Version specification.

Rohrl and Geistdorfer's 1983 Monte Carlo Victory

The Last Rear-Wheel-Drive World Champion

Walter Rohrl and co-driver Christian Geistdorfer won the 1983 Monte Carlo Rally in the Lancia 037, the opening round of a season in which Lancia would go on to take the manufacturers' title against the rising tide of Audi's four-wheel-drive Quattro. It proved to be the last time a rear-wheel-drive car won the World Rally Championship's manufacturers' crown, a genuine turning point the sport never reversed. That context gives the 037 a specific historical weight beyond its Martini livery and mid-engine layout: it is the car that closed out an entire era of rallying just as a new one, built around four-wheel-drive traction, was beginning to take over completely.

The Night Version's Stage Lighting Configuration

Monte Carlo's competitive stages run through the night as well as the day, and this Night Version reproduces the car in the lighting configuration crews relied on for those darker sections: auxiliary lamps mounted across the front, positioned as period rally regulations and practical necessity demanded. It is a meaningful variant rather than a cosmetic one, since the additional lighting rig genuinely changed how the car looked and performed on night stages, and Kyosho treats it as a distinct specification rather than an afterthought decal change on a standard release.

Kyosho's Diecast Approach to a Group B Rally Icon

Martini Livery and Panel Detail

The Martini livery, with its distinctive stripe arrangement over the 037's boxy, flared bodywork, is one of the most recognisable liveries in rally history, and Kyosho's diecast tooling reproduces the panel gaps and wheel arch flares with the sharp registration the design demands. The stripes carry across the bonnet, roof and boot without misalignment at the panel joins, a detail that matters enormously on a livery built around continuous straight lines rather than isolated logos. Kyosho has built a strong reputation among rally collectors specifically for this kind of print accuracy on complex period liveries.

Opening Features and Rally-Spec Finishing

Doors, bonnet and boot open on metal hinges, revealing a stripped-down rally interior rather than a road-going cabin: a roll cage, bucket seats and the auxiliary lighting switchgear crews actually used. The additional lamp units on the Night Version are separately applied pieces rather than moulded into the bonnet, a finishing choice that lifts this specific variant above a standard grid-spec 037 release.

A Group B Subject for a Rally-Focused Shelf

A Group B-era rally winner with genuine championship-deciding weight behind it makes a strong anchor for a rally-focused display, particularly alongside the Audi Quattros that would define the years immediately following. At roughly 22 centimetres in length, the 037 fits a standard 1:18 cabinet row while still carrying real shelf presence through its flared arches and livery. For collectors tracing rallying's shift from rear-wheel drive to four-wheel drive, this Monte Carlo winner marks precisely where that transition began, and the Night Version's lighting detail gives it a genuine edge over a plainer daytime release.

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