Lancia Montecarlo

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The Lancia Montecarlo is a two-seater sports car manufactured and marketed by Lancia from 1975 to 1981, across two series. Designated the Tipo 137, it was designed by Pininfarina and has a mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The car is named to commemorate Lancia's earlier wins in the Monte Carlo Rally. The Series 1 cars (1975–1978) were marketed as the Lancia Beta Montecarlo and the Series 2 (1980–1981) as the Lancia Montecarlo. In both cases Montecarlo was spelled as one word, unlike the city of Monte Carlo. In some of its earliest promotional material, Lancia used the form "Monte-Carlo". Both series were offered in fixed head coupé and open-roof cabrio bodystyles, the latter of which was called the Spider and features a large patented retractable canvas roof between solid A and B pillars. A modified version of the Spider was marketed in the United States as the Lancia Scorpion for the 1976–1977 model years.

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