Lancia: 1906 - 1995

"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind) 05/30/2016 at 08:42 • Filed to: In Memory

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It’s Memorial Day in the US. Let’s take some time to remember brands that have fallen. Though not American, it got close over the last few years. Shame that the current lineup is only the Ypsilon.

All that is left.

But who knows! Maybe FCA will decontent Alfa Romeos and sell them as Lancias in a few years!! It could happen...it could...happen...

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > Wobbles the Mind 05/30/2016 at 08:52

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Thanks Obama Sergio!

MultiplaOrgasms > Wobbles the Mind 05/30/2016 at 09:17

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Hey, you.

Yes you over there.

YOU did this.

IT’S YOUR FUCKING FAULT FOR NOT BUYING A LANCIA DURING THAT BRIEF PERIOD IN THE LATE 1990s WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO MAKE DECENT CARS AGAIN.

Kappa.

Wheelerguy > Wobbles the Mind 05/30/2016 at 10:05

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Somebody will have enough cash to revive Lancia, and he/she/they will, but not at the state Lancia is in right now.

First, kill off Lancia dead. Then, observe WRC2 and poach the best team there that isn’t Skoda. Grab a few Dodge Darts, strip them until they’re bare chassis, modify that chassis, style a retro-modern Delta body, make a new 1.6-liter turbo 4cyl, hash up rally parts, then test it for a year or two once the new WRC regs are in play. Rally version has got to be developed with the road version. Then, 2021, show up at Rally Monte Carlo with the All-New Lancia Delta, do your damn best to beat VW, and after the end of the rally, formally re-launch Lancia.

RT > MultiplaOrgasms 02/08/2018 at 05:36

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Lancia’s last attempt at a decent car was in the late 90s?

You forget that there’s a Thesis on this matter.

MultiplaOrgasms > RT 02/08/2018 at 12:48

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To me, with the Thesis it partially went down the toilet again. Sure, from a technological perspective the Thesis is more impressive than the Lybra and k, but it was also far too extroverted and flamboyant for a Lancia sedan. A 4-door Lancia was never flamboyant, always conservative and dare I say stuffy.

And lest we not forget the Thesis was quite a bit less reliable than its immediate predecessor and actually slower due to carrying over largely unchanged engines.

RT > MultiplaOrgasms 02/08/2018 at 17:16

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Nice to see other Opponauts remember Lancia as a more restrained company. That is not to say their cars never had their quirks though.

The interior of the Trevi you posted makes the Thesis look like a Camry.

I think this quote from a Driven To Write article sums the Thesis up best.

Considering the car as it is, rather than what else it could have been, it is a fine thing: well made, extremely comfortable and very well equipped indeed. It is even charming in many of its details. It’s when you triangulate the car against its peers and betters you realise that Lancia simply did a very fine job of making the wrong car.