In 1997, Lancia introduced the Lancia Kappa Coupé with similar rear " sight line " augmentation.

Image: Lancia-kappa-coupe-tailfin. JPG | One of the last and slightly ledged rudimentum of tailfin of the small size car Lancia Kappa Coupé

The same variator system is also used in many Fiat / Lancia engines like one used in Lancia Kappa 5-cylinder engine, some Fiat Bravo / Fiat Marea engines, Fiat Barchetta, Fiat Coupe, Fiat Stilo etc.

* 1996 Lancia Kappa SW

The 2. 4 L ( 2387 cc ) straight-5 version is based on the 2. 4 5 cylinder TD engine as used in the Mk1 Fiat Marea and the Mk1 Lancia Kappa.

* Lancia Kappa

Lancia invested heavily in the Thesis and, unlike the predecessor the Kappa which shared a platform with the Alfa Romeo 166, the Thesis was designed with its own chassis.

In January 1990 UK's Car Magazine ran a comparison of the 2. 0 Si against the BMW 520i and Lancia Thema 16V 2. 0 in a review of lower-end executive sector cars.

The Lancia Thesis is an executive car produced by Italian automaker Lancia between 2002 and 2009.

* Lancia Thesis, an executive car by Lancia

The Lancia Dedra is a compact executive car produced by the Italian automaker Lancia from 1989 to 2000.

The task of the Dedra was demanding: it must gather the legacy of Prisma, which relaunched the Lancia brand in the field of compact executive cars, and expand its market share if possible.

Larger than its predecessor, the Dedra was presented as the second flagship car of Lancia, as a car that could satisfy those looking for an elegant medium sized sedan but did not want to buy an executive car, as the Thema.

The prestige of Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, Lotus, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and Aston Martin derives in part from success in sports car racing and the World Sportscar Championship.

Renault bankrolled the small volume sports-car maker Alpine to transform their little A110 Berlinette coupé into a world-beating rally car, and hired a skilled team of drivers too ; then in 1974 came the Lancia Stratos, the first car designed from scratch to win rallies, and the dominant asphalt rally car of its time.

This allowed cars to be much further removed from production models, and so was created a generation of rallying supercars, of which the most radical and impressive were the Peugeot 205 T16, Renault 5 Turbo and the Lancia Delta S4, with flimsy fibreglass bodies roughly the shape of the standard car tacked on to lightweight spaceframe chassis, four-wheel drive, and power outputs reportedly as high as.

One notably successful car during this period was the Lancia Delta Integrale, dominating world rallying during 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 – winning six consecutive world rally championships, a feat yet unbeaten.

* In 1960 Lancia's flat-four water-cooled engine debuted for the Lancia Flavia model, first Italian front-wheel drive car, like 1500 cc coupé version and during the years become a 2000 cc with when was mounted the first electronic Injection by Bosch in 1970 in a flat four engine, Lancia also rebuild a new big flat-four engine in 1976, 2484 cc, for his upper size model Lancia Gamma.

It incorporated many packaging lessons learnt from Giugiaro's 1978 Lancia Megagamma concept car ( the first modern people carrier / MPV / mini-van ) but miniaturised.

Four days later, on 26 May, he went to Monza to watch his friend Eugenio Castellotti test a Ferrari 750 Monza sports car, which they were to co-race in the Supercortemaggiore 1000 km race ( having been given special dispensation by Lancia ).

This car was branded as Lancia from the beginning for most export markets ( except for France again, until 1989 ), thus becoming better known as the " Lancia Y10 ".

* Lancia Ardea, a small car produced by the Turin firm between 1939 and 1953

The Lancia Delta is a small family car produced by Italian automaker Lancia with the first generation being produced between 1979 and 1994, the second generation running from 1993 until 1999, and the third generation Delta entering production in 2008.

As they were obliged to by the regulations, Lancia offered road-going versions of these competition cars — the Lancia Delta HF4WD and Integrale-5000 of each variant having to be produced before the car could enter competition.

The Lancia Delta S4, which the works team ran immediately prior to the HF 4WD and Integrale models ' world championship careers from the season-ending 1985 RAC Rally until the end of the 1986 season, while sharing the same name and appearance, was a Group B race car designed specifically for rallying, and was entirely different from the commercial Delta in terms of construction and performance.

Lancia designed the HF Integrale to incorporate the advanced technical features of the Delta HF 4WD, and to address its shortcomings as a rally car.

Despite the fact that the 8v Integrale had dominated the 1988 World Rally Championship, Lancia knew that further development, and particularly more power, was needed to keep the car competitive with newer rivals.

Although the Manta was a Group B car, it was underpowered against the likes of the Audi Quattro A2 and Lancia 037, which were controlling the world rally scene at the time.

" Toivonen had his Lancia 037 debut in Portugal with very limited testing experience: " It has been snowing in Italy every time I have been to try this car, so I don't know its limits.

Lancia produced several narrow-angle V4 engines from the 1920s through 1960s for cars like the Lambda, Augusta, Artena, Aprilia, Ardea, Appia, and Fulvia.

Giovanni Bertone produced torpedo and saloon bodies for FIAT and Lancia, and also for Itala, Diatto and SPA.

In 1932, Giovanni designed the imposingly elegant Lancia Artena, which was produced until 1936.

Automobiles produced and sold by Lancia

* the designation number assigned to the coupe version of the Lancia Aurelia motorcar, produced between 1951 and 1958

The Lancia Aurelia is a car that was produced by the Italian manufacturer Lancia.

The Lancia Lambda is an innovative automobile produced from 1922 through 1931.

Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat Twin Cam ( also known as the Lampredi Twin ) was an advanced inline-4 automobile engine produced from 1959 through 1999 as a Fiat / Lancia engine until it was replaced by the " family B " series of engines.

The engine was produced in a large number of displacements, ranging from 1297 cc to 2111 cc and was used in Fiat, Lancia, Morgan and Alfa Romeo automobiles.

The Lancia Montecarlo is a mid-engined sports car which was produced by Lancia in Italy from 1975 to 1982.

Cars from the first series, which were produced from 1975 to 1978, were known as Lancia Beta Montecarlos and those from the second series, produced from 1979 to 1982, simply as Lancia Montecarlos.

The first series production V6 was introduced by Lancia in 1950 with the Lancia Aurelia.

Since Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy filing in the United States, Chrysler has been controlled by Italian automaker Fiat, which unlike Daimler plans to integrate Chrysler's products into the Fiat portfolio, most notably Lancia and Chrysler's namesake brand.

* The Lancia di Luce (" Lance of Light "), by the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.

Some models built by Fiat or its subsidiaries Lancia and Autobianchi were co-branded Abarth, the most famous being the Autobianchi A112 Abarth, probably the most popular " boy racer " vehicle of its time on account of its lightness and low price.

The second battle consisted of the Italian mercenaries, about 1, 000, and 300 Saracen light horse, commanded by his uncle Galvano Lancia.

John III married as his second wife Constance II of Hohenstaufen, an illegitimate daughter of Emperor Frederick II by his mistress Bianca Lancia.

The company is dominated by Fiat Group, and was created on 1 January 1975 by Fiat manager and mechanical engineer Bruno Beccaria ( 1915 – 2001 ) through the merger of five companies operating in Italy, France and Germany ; Fiat Veicoli Industriali ( located in Turin ), Officine Meccaniche ( Brescia ), Lancia Veicoli Speciali ( Bolzano ), Unic ( Trappes ) and Magirus ( Ulm ).

Some manufacturers ( originally Lancia, and more recently Volkswagen with the VR6 engine ) have attempted to combine advantages of the straight-and V configurations by producing a narrow-angle V ; this is more compact than either configuration, but is less smooth ( without balancing ) than either.

Very narrow angles of Vee combine some of the advantages of the Vee engine and the straight engine ( primarily in the form of compactness ) as well as disadvantages ; the concept is an old one pioneered by Lancia, but recently reworked by Volkswagen Group.

The 1980s Ford launched the front-wheel drive Ford Escort hatchback, followed by the Lancia Delta and many others.

Ascari switched to Maserati and Lancia in 1954 but did not continue his dominance as he failed to finish a race in his four attempts at F1, although he made up for it by winning the Mille Miglia.

The Desio plant was finally closed in 1992 and with the Y10 being replaced by the Lancia Ypsilon ( branded as Lancia in all markets including Italy ), the Autobianchi brand disappeared altogether in 1996.

Lancia Automobiles S. p. A. () is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969.