Lancia Gamma HF Integrale takes the name promised to the Delta
The red elephant badge is back on a Lancia with four driven wheels
Lancia is bringing the HF Integrale name back to a road car for the first time since the 1990s, on the range-topping version of its new Gamma. The electric crossover makes its international debut at the Paris Motor Show, open to the public from 12 to 18 October, with one motor on each axle, 375 hp and a claimed 675 km of range.
Lancia Gamma HF Integrale: 375 hp from one motor per axle
The Gamma HF Integrale uses two electric motors, one on each axle, for a combined 375 hp and all-wheel drive. That makes it the most powerful road car Lancia has sold: the Ypsilon HF manages 280 hp, and the Delta S4 Stradale of 1985 about 250 hp. The Gamma is 4.67 metres long, rides on Stellantis's STLA Medium platform and is built in Melfi alongside the DS N°8. Lancia has not yet published a 0-100 km/h time, a kerb weight or a price for the HF Integrale.
Gamma range runs from a 145 hp hybrid to 740 km of electric range
The HF Integrale tops a Gamma line-up that Lancia first revealed in May. The entry Gamma is a hybrid with a 1.2-litre turbocharged three-cylinder and 145 hp, the only version with a petrol engine. The single-motor electric cars offer 230 hp with more than 540 km of range, or 245 hp with up to 740 km. The flagship therefore gives up 65 km against the longest-legged Gamma in exchange for its second motor. Paris also shows the Gamma in LX trim, in both hybrid and electric form.
Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale won the 2026 WRC2 teams title
Lancia Corse HF clinched the 2026 WRC2 teams title with the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale in its first season back in the World Rally Championship. It is the brand's first works WRC programme since the early 1990s, with Nikolay Gryazin and Yohan Rossel as its regular drivers. Fifth and sixth places in Paraguay in late August sealed the title with three rounds to spare. The season ends at Rally Italia Sardegna from 1 to 4 October, where Lancia enters four cars.
Delta HF Integrale won six WRC titles from 1987 to 1992
The original Delta HF Integrale won six consecutive World Rally Championship manufacturers' titles from 1987 to 1992, part of a record ten for Lancia alongside the Stratos and the 037. It was a homologation special: a compact hatchback with a turbocharged four-cylinder and permanent four-wheel drive, built in the numbers the rules demanded. That is the standard every Integrale is measured against, and the reason modern restomods built on Lancia's rally legend now trade at seven-figure sums.
Lancia promised HF Integrale to the Gamma and Delta in 2025
In July 2025 Lancia wrote that the HF Integrale label would appear in 2026 on both the upcoming Gamma and the Delta. Half of that promise lands in Paris. The Delta, planned for 2028 and the car the name was created for, no longer appears in Stellantis's current product plan to 2030, and the group has not given it a new date. For now, the word Integrale sits on a fastback crossover rather than on the compact hatchback that made it famous.
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Integrale has always meant four driven wheels first and a body style second, so a dual-motor Gamma wearing it is a fair use of the name. The rally team did the harder work: a world title in its first year is what makes an HF badge worth something again, and 375 hp puts this Gamma above every road Lancia before it. What the car still has to show is a chassis to match, and Lancia has not yet published the figures to judge that.
Lancia has until the first road tests, due when the Gamma reaches showrooms around the turn of the year, to prove the HF Integrale is a car with its own tuning rather than badges on the side skirts. If it is, the flagship becomes the strongest argument for putting the Delta back into Stellantis's plan before 2030. A name that has just won a world title deserves the hatchback it was invented for.
