Lancia Medusa

The Lancia Medusa is an Italian concept car built by Lancia, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1979 and shown at the Turin Auto Show in 1980. It sits on the chassis and mechanics of the Lancia Montecarlo, with the same mid-mounted 2.0 litre Lampredi four-cylinder engine producing 120 PS (88 kW) at 6,000 rpm and 170 Nm of torque, and a five-speed manual gearbox. Giugiaro aimed for a drag coefficient of 0.25 and reached 0.263, helped by pop-up headlights, flush door handles and glazing, inset turn signal repeaters and doors that wrap into the roof; the clay model reportedly measured 0.255 before mirrors, repeaters and a radiator were added. Italdesign later made a four-door derivative mock-up for DeLorean, the DMC-24, and a prototype for Lamborghini that ended as the Marco Polo concept.