This Is What It's Like to Live with a Lancia Stratos Every Day

Owning a Lancia Stratos Stradale has to be quite an experience. It was only built because Lancia had to make street versions of its Stratos rally car to homologate it for the World Rally Championship (WRC).

With that in mind, it should surprise no one that, in terms of quality and build, the road-going Stratos fares poor even when compared to a kit car. That’s because it was only an appendix to the rally Stratos, a car built with only one purpose in mind: to win WRC titles. And indeed it did - in 1974, 1975 and 1976.

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1995 Lancia Delta HF Integrale – In-Depth Look by EVO

The Lancia Delta HF Integrale is one of the last truly iconic mainstream Italian performance cars. It holds that status because of its immense success in the world of rallying, which it dominated for six years straight after its debut. Road-going Integrales were also highly-appreciated in their day, and now they are highly sought-after modern classics. Read more »

New Lancia Delta S by MOMODESIGN Priced from €23,400 in Italy

Following the official presentation at the Geneva auto show last month, Lancia has opened order books for its special edition Delta S by MOMODESIGN. Priced from €23,400 ($30,070) in Italy for the entry-level 120 HP 1.4 Turbo Jet version-, the limited series Delta is aimed at “a male metropolitan customer looking for distinctive style,” according to Lancia's press blurb. Read more »

Could the 2003 Fulvia Coupe Concept Have Helped Revive Lancia?

Of all the car-making nations in the world, Italy has probably the richest tradition in manufacturing affordable coupes. Even in the 1990s and early 2000s, when the Fiat Group wasn’t in great financial shape, the affordable Italian coupe lived on through the Fiat Coupe and Alfa Romeo GTV.

Both were offering Italian style and decent performance for an affordable price, but during this time, Fiat’s other brand, Lancia, had no sports coupe in its lineup, (well, there was the Kappa Coupe, but it was nowhere near a sports car)

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Lancia Fans Target Marchionne on Facebook for Transforming the Brand into a Chrysler Clone

Reducing a brand with such a rich heritage like Lancia to selling rebadged Chryslers must be a hard thing to live with for fans. To express their anger, some hardcore Lancia enthusiasts have set up a Facebook page called “Si a Lancia, No a Marchionne”.

No need to translate that; it is an Italian's elegant way of saying that Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne should stop trying to turn Lancia into a Chrysler clone.

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Lancia Delta Also Gets New "S by MOMODESIGN" Edition

Five years after the latest iteration of the Lancia Delta broke cover at the Geneva International Auto Salon, the Italian hatchback is returning to the Swiss show with a new special edition model named "S by MOMODESIGN". Read more »

Lancia Prepares New Ypsilon Elefantino and S MOMODESIGN for Geneva Auto Show

If there's one thing Lancia has learned to do well under the loving arms of the Fiat Group over the years, it is special editions with which it tries to conceal the fact that it lacks a full range of new models in its lineup... Read more »

Lancia and Poltrona Frau Hit Venice Film Festival Red Carpet with Special Edition Flavia

Poltrona Frau, the Italian company renowned for its finely crafted leather interiors, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

To commemorate the event, Poltrona Frau teamed up with Lancia, with which it has cooperated since the early 1920s, to create a special edition version of the Flavia.

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Watch the New Stratos Compete in the 2012 Rally Majorca

Michael Stoschek's dream of creating a limited run series of the one-off New Stratos may have gone up in a flash of red smoke after Ferrari officials put a brake on the project, but at least the German entrepreneur is having a blast with the Italian exotic. Read more »

New Lancia Flavia Convertible Mega Gallery with 88 HD Photos

The Fiat Group's inability to offer the Chrysler 200 with a diesel engine in Europe meant that even though the company created Lancia-badged concepts of both the sedan and convertible variants of the mid-size model, only the latter would make it into production.

The reasoning behind Fiat's decision is that while the absence of a diesel option automatically kills chances of any success for the Lancia Flavia saloon in Europe, the convertible can attract buyers even with a gasoline-engine only.

Now, with European sales of the Flavia Convertible well underway in select markets including, but not limited to, Italy, Germany, France and Sweden, the Italian carmaker dropped a slew of photos for those with a genuine interest in the car or for those just want to see what a 200 Convertible with a Lancia logo looks like.

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