RESPECT

That's the key word for this four-wheel drive, turbocharged, gorgeous, tough, Italian automotive masterwork. Enter the Lancia Delta Integrale Evo...

It's strange sometimes how feature cars are chosen for Max Power. In the case of Damien Chakko's Lancia Delta Integrale Evo, its selection was strange enough to be bordering on weird.

There's nothing special about Max's car selection process, though you'd be forgiven for thinking it SHOULD be special because there are thousands of hyper-keen owners out there who would chop their own grandma's head off to get a feature in the mag. But no, a bunch of numbnuts (ie. the staff) simply sit around a table and read out letters, look at photographs and take the piss out of each other for a few hours or so.

During this discussion, many cars are presented enthusiastically by each team member. However, no amount of bright and bouncy enthusiasm will carry a poo car through to the mag, not even Emma's solar-system-sized Ego will do the trick, and sheer lack of space means most proposals are rejected, usually with clinical brutality. Disappointment is ridiculed, weak arguments crushed, and the whole meeting is punctuated by lurid insults, swearing and the occasional fist fight. It really is publishing professionalism at its very peak.

At the end of this animal-pen-zoo-violence, we have what we cleverly call a 'features list', and the merits of the cars that make it through have been scrutinised heavily, each mod carefully considered and weighed up against those of rival cars. Okay, sometimes we make some strange choices, but by and large the system works. Sort of.

Words: John Walsh
Photos: Fly

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