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The Lancia Montecarlo was a Mid-engine Sports Car sold in the 1970s . A low-power version, the '''Scorpion''', was sold in the United States at the same time. Spider versions of the Montecarlo featured a unique roll-back manually operated Targa style Convertible top. The car was known as the X1/8 (later the X1/20) while in development, and was intended to be a Fiat-branded 'big brother' to the Fiat X1/9 . It had a similar mid-engine layout, with a larger engine and roomier interior. The car was passed to Lancia, and was constructed by Pininfarina , the original design company, in Turin , Italy . Production lasted from 1975 through 1979 for the first series, with a second version launched in 1980 . LANCIA BETA MONTE CARLO IN RACING The Monte Carlo was a successful turbocharged Group 5 racer, winning the 1980 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft with Hans Heyer . The Lancia Scorpion, the american version of the Montecarlo also appeared in Disney's Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo ( 1977 ) as Herbie 's "girlfriend" Giselle . Julie Sommars played the car's equally attractive, red-haired driver, Diane Darcy. SCORPION The US-market Lancia Scorpion and was modified to meet U.S. emissions, lighting and crash test requirements. The car is so called because the name Montecarlo was already used in America by Chevrolet. The Scorpion differs from the Montecarlo in a number of ways, it has a smaller engine (1800 cc) because the 2 liter unit in the Montecarlo had not passed smog tests. It has different bumper (fender) configuration to meet American crash tests. It has Pop-up headlights and solid rear buttresses (Montecarlos had glass inserts except for the very early models). Unlike the Montecarlo, only one production run of Scorpions was made. A total of 1801 were produced between 1976 and 1977. EXTERNAL LINKS
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