Dallara does not build many cars like the Dallara Stradale: a 2-door berlinetta / Doorless roadster (automobile) / roadster / Doorless targa top / Doorless barchetta with 2.3-litre turbocharged Ford EcoBoost I4, built from 2017 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Granstudio under Lowie Vermeersch.
The story
The Dallara Stradale is a sports car manufactured by Italian automotive manufacturer Dallara. The Stradale is the first road car manufactured by the company, the company's main products being chassis development for other automobile manufacturers along with the development and construction of race cars. The Stradale is a barchetta in its basic form, with no doors, but is convertible to berlinetta, roadster and targa top body styles after the installation of interchangeable parts.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits 2.3-litre turbocharged Ford EcoBoost I4. Kerb weight is 855 kg. The gearbox is a 6-speed MMT6 B6 manual transmission / manual / 6-speed sequential manual transmission / automated manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2475 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Dallara's history is not in doubt: it was built at Varano de' Melegari, Italy. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Bolt, the Porsche Taycan. Nearby in the Dallara catalogue sit the Dallara 320 and the Dallara F191.