
Orca - Delta 4x4 Turbo
Italdesign
Concept sedan reconciling roominess with aerodynamics
With the Orca, Giugiaro wished to develop a four-door, four-seater hatchback sedan reconciling roominess with aerodynamics.
BRAND: Italdesign
MODEL: Orca - Delta 4x4 Turbo
YEAR: 1981
BODY TYPE: Sedan
POWER SUPPLY: Combustion
CATEGORY: Concept car
DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro
The theme was the same as on the Medusa (1980), but the mechanical concept was completely different: front transverse engine with disconnectable four-wheel drive. In practice Giugiaro wanted to find out up to which point he could push the compromise between roominess and aerodynamics in a car that because of its mechanical assembly couldn't have a low, front hood streamlined like the Medusa's. The roominess laid down during the design stage was excellent. As mechanicals Giugiaro chose the Lancia Delta 1600 turbocharger and disconnectable four-wheel drive.