I've Decided I Like Lancia

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/03/2018 at 15:34 • Filed to: None

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I don’t know if they’re worth a fig mechanically, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Lancia that I didn’t like the looks of.

AestheticsInMotion > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 15:54

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Minus the whole “price” thing I love ‘em too.

Cé hé sin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 16:01

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I take it you haven’t had the pleasure of a Prisma.

Or, heaven help us, a Thesis.

Or a Grand Voyager

Klaus Schmoll > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 16:03

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“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Lancia I didn’t like the looks of.”

Let me fix that for you.

SVTyler > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 16:04

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Apparently you’ve never seen the Ypsilon or Musa:

SmugAardvark > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 16:07

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I’m not huge on the 1st gen Ypsilon. Sort of doofy-looking.

Give me an 037 though, and you’ll row my boat.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Cé hé sin 05/03/2018 at 16:24

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I don’t mind the Prisma. And the ones I like may be of an earlier era. But I generally like them. (That Thesis thing is one of the ugliest cars I’ve ever seen, BTW...)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Klaus Schmoll 05/03/2018 at 16:24

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Fixed.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SVTyler 05/03/2018 at 16:25

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Looks like a Fiat 500 with a birth defect.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SmugAardvark 05/03/2018 at 16:26

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I guess the ones I’ve liked have been earlier. Oppo has not let me down: I knew if I’d missed something, someone would point it out.

RallyWrench > SVTyler 05/03/2018 at 16:34

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Arguably not Lancias. As a Lancisti, I certainly refuse to recognize them.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 16:35

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Yes, come to the dark side. Although most anything post-Delta is arguably not a Lancia, just a badge engineered POS.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyWrench 05/03/2018 at 17:14

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So it would seem. Y’all really harshed my mellow.

duurtlang > RallyWrench 05/03/2018 at 17:15

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Wait, are you telling me the 1996 Lancia Zeta I bought so it could donate its Peugeot engine to my 1987 Peugeot was a ‘badge engineered POS’?

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 18:08

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Or the 2007 Thesis (Feces)

RallyWrench > duurtlang 05/03/2018 at 18:10

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Depends on if it’s a Peugeot or a Lancia ;). POS was perhaps too harsh. They may have been good cars regardless of badge (I mean, the Chrysler Sebring is not an unreliable car...), but for me Lancias were engineered as Lancias, not something else with a different grille on it. I hate badge engineering, Lancia should been let to die with its honor intact rather than fade into mediocrity.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 18:11

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Maintain that mellow, the Delta is a fine thing to like. It’s the bits after that where the brand really suffered.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RacinBob 05/03/2018 at 19:02

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Clearly, the Lancias I like are from a prior era.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyWrench 05/03/2018 at 19:03

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Yeah. The squarer ones. Probably 90s.

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/03/2018 at 19:23

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Ditto

duurtlang > RallyWrench 05/04/2018 at 01:18

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It was a minivan developed by Peugeot and Fiat combined. My Lancia version had unique bumpers and lights. And Alcantara seats. That was about it I guess.

MultiplaOrgasms > RallyWrench 05/04/2018 at 08:58

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Yeah the Delta with its Fiat Ritmo chassis, Fiat engine, Fiat transmission, built by Abarth and stylistically derived from the Golf. The €299 Kappa I am about to buy is probably less badge engineered than any Delta ever was.

MultiplaOrgasms > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/04/2018 at 09:02

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For the most part anything that came after the Integrale was far better as a car you’d actually want to live with. Nowhere near as desirable but much cheaper, not as demanding mechanically and no more rust.