We consider transformations preserving a contracting foliation, such that the associated quotient map satisfies a Lasota-Yorke inequality. We prove that the associated transfer operator, acting on suitable normed spaces, has a spectral gap (on which we have quantitative estimation).As an application we consider Lorenz-like two dimensional maps (piecewise hyperbolic with unbounded contraction and expansion rate): we prove that those systems have a spectral gap and we show a quantitative estimate for their statistical stability. Under deterministic perturbations of the system of size δ, the physical measure varies continuously, with a modulus of continuity O(δ log δ), which is asymptotically optimal for this kind of piecewise smooth maps. Acknowledgment This work was partially supported by Alagoas Research Foundation-FAPEAL (Brazil) Grants 60030 000587/2016, CNPq (Brazil) Grants 300398/2016-6, CAPES (Brazil) Grants 99999.014021/2013-07 and EU Marie-Curie IRSES Brazilian-European partnership in Dynamical Systems (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES 318999 BREUDS).2 Notation: In the following we use | · | to indicate the usual absolute value or norms for signed measures on the basis space N1. We will use || · || for norms defined for signed measures on Σ.