Lancia comes back to the UK - what do you think?

[OdinEidolon]

Lancia's coming back to the UK market under the form of the Chrysler Delta, a rebadged Lancia Delta.
I know Lancias has had a bad reputation in the UK since the 80s, but here in Ita they are of course pretty common.
The delta is a stunning and well built car, with reliable and tested diesel engines made in Fiat. Electrics are Italian of course...
Of course it's not as good as an Integrale Evoluzione, but the chassis is fine and the internals are nice.

Do you think it'll have some success in the UK?
I personally wouldn't buy it but it really looks beautiful.

[steve_earwig]

They didn't stop selling them here, so there are the whole lot floating about. Come to think of it I've not seen any for a while so I suppose they all dropped to bits while I wasn't looking. Anyway, Fiats - tin junk. Alfa Romeo - sexy looking tin junk. Lancia - ugly tin junk. Biassed, me? My dad used to have Beta HPEs, which I still think were a fine looking car. Sadly they all fell to bits

[OdinEidolon]

They didn't stop selling them here, so there are the whole lot floating about. Come to think of it I've not seen any for a while so I suppose they all dropped to bits while I wasn't looking. Anyway, Fiats - tin junk. Alfa Romeo - sexy looking tin junk. Lancia - ugly tin junk. Biassed, me? My dad used to have Beta HPEs, which I still think were a fine looking car. Sadly they all fell to bits

Actually as you can imagine we have loads of Fiat Group cars here in Ita and the problems with them are almost always related to the electrics.
Almost like most french cars they are well built and engines are solid - but the electrics are a nightmare most of the time. NEVER buy a Fiat car just after it came out, wait 2-3 years they sort out the electrical problems, after that period they are actually pretty good. And just don't buy ~2000 italian diesels - they eat turbos at lunch.
After you've learnt those 2-3 rules about italian cars they are nice - especially alfas

[Doggy]

Alfa Romeo - sexy looking tin junk.

Classic

Lancias had an awful reputation in the UK - I think calling one of the last ones the Dedra was a masterful piece of marketing.

As for a comeback, well anything that looks different to the current crop of almost entirley hideous offerings from vitually every maker, gets my vote.

[steve_earwig]

Different?


Something of the hidious rodius about that...

The rest of it looks like any other of the fat arsed hatchbacks that seem to be all the rage these days.

[FarmerPug]

i dont like it, its a bit too fat looking, lancia at the moment have a number of cars we dont get here:


and a c6 after a few minuites in a microwave:

I dont think any of them are pretty, not compared to lancias of old.
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[steve_earwig]

Lummey And I thought you was a big fan of all things fabricated in awful tin

[FarmerPug]

i like the panda, its like my suzuki a good simple no nonsense car that is also fun.
The italians know how to make sexy cars thats why there is alfa, and the maserati quatroporte lancia did it a long time ago with the fulvia and hpe, now they seem to have tried what peugeot has done picked an ugly design and base all their new cars around it.

[waue1978]

Lancia's coming back to the UK market under the form of the Chrysler Delta, a rebadged Lancia Delta.
I know Lancias has had a bad reputation in the UK since the 80s, but here in Ita they are of course pretty common.
The delta is a stunning and well built car, with reliable and tested diesel engines made in Fiat. Electrics are Italian of course...
Of course it's not as good as an Integrale Evoluzione, but the chassis is fine and the internals are nice.

Do you think it'll have some success in the UK?
I personally wouldn't buy it but it really looks beautiful.

Couldn't give a sh*te to be honest.

Won't affect me or anyone else I know until they've nearly hit 10 years old, by which time there won't be any left in a state that I'd want to buy one in...

[Stevem]

I have THREE of the original Deltas, one an extremly rare cabrio one (not factory ), and love them. They are realy no worse than any other make ,Peugot included, of the era for rust, and actually over compensated for it with the later versions (crap originally Russian steel !!). Just to clarify , Lancia stopped production of right hand drive cars in '94, which is when they withdrew fom Britain.
The original cars had heart and soul, but new ones (by ANY manufacturer ) don't have anything to stir the soul. That is what Lancia were about. The new ones look nice....... and that is just it, they look nice !!!!! No real soul stirring, or wanting to sit in a forest a 2 in the mornibg waiting to see/hear one go screaming past at over a 100 mph into a blind bend. Having said that, NOTHING produced today invokes that feeling as far as I'm concernd.

[STALLED]

I saw a Thema in a Autogrill near the Swiss border - bloody hideous! That said, the pizza slices were good, for a motorway services!

But the other members of the current Lancia range look awesome - Would buy one in a heartbeat!

[FarmerPug]

one thing though
the fact they are lancia is the only thing that creates an interest, chrysler isnt exactly interesting or desirable in the uk, and the last time they were in the uk they sold out their european branch talbot to peugeot.

[lozz]

Irember putting core plugs in a lancia once,
what a shite car they are to work on,
this one iworked on tho was the only one id ever seen must of been Rare.

it was called the lancia Trevia, fecking big thing it was (horrible car)

[puggy]

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/fiat-ca ... urn/236386

[FarmerPug]

Irember putting core plugs in a lancia once,
what a shite car they are to work on,
this one iworked on tho was the only one id ever seen must of been Rare.

it was called the lancia Trevia, fecking big thing it was (horrible car)

core plugs? they would only go on a lancia
ill have to agree with you ive looked at old lancia engine bays and they look a pig to work at and the trevi that thing doest deserve to be a lancia more a lada.