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Lancia
Tour - Italian Design Lancia celebrates 100 years from its foundation and it organised a mobile exhibition to show the evolution of the car design and general industrial design (mostly household). The exhibition took place in 6 european countries and this article is from the visit in Greece at 12 of November 2006. http://www.lancia100years.com/ The exhibition.  The exhibition hall is quite impressive. It is made from aluminium and glass frames and it can fold to a compact size for transport. It houses the cars and other items and there is also a small cafeteria for the visitors. It is quite small though and some exhibits referred in the website were absent (the Stratos prototype) or altered (Delta). Outside the building there were a lot of greek registered Lancias, many of them quite rare and all of them in excellent condition.  The cars and other items were placed in chronological order.  Entering the hall the visitor faces a white Lancia Fulvia inside a dark room where slides and videos are projected over it. Lancia Stratos Stratos is one of the most famous Lancias and one of the most impressive rally cars of all time. It was designed especially as a rally car and it wasn't a race version of a mass produced car. Even the Group B cars which were obliged to retain some elements of the regular car.  The rear of the car is a one piece shell that opens easily for quick access to the engine and rear suspension.  This particular car is painted with the Pirelli colours, the most famous racing cars were the ones sponsored from Alitalia or Marlboro.  The inside is simple and functional and similar to every performance car of its age.  The circular lights are a hint to the Dino that provided the engine and also point the utilitarian style of the car. The big spoiler improved drastically the aerodynamic stability of the car which had a snatchy behaviour because of the very short wheelbase and low polar moment of inertia. Lancia Delta HF Integrale 16V After the ban of Group B cars Lancia participated at the world rally championship with the group A Delta. This particular car is the second evolution after the initial Delta 4x4 and the 8V Integrale. It was the only Martini sponsored Lancia WRC car that was painted red instead of white as the previous and next rally cars of the Lancia Martini team.  The bulges in the wheel arches were very popular in the '80s. The Integrale was one of the most characteristic examples of this design trend which was used also in the first BMW M3. This wheel arch bulges were used to accommodate bigger wheels and wider track on the fast versions of the cars and also to differentiate them from the humbler ones.  Apart from the red colour this was the only Lancia Martini car to have this 'split' stickers.  Speedline split rim.  Primavera - Vittorio Bonacina (1967)  Lancia Ypsilon MOMO Design  A characteristic example of today's Lancia line-up. From the avant-garde era of Vincenzo Lancia and the rally success period under the first years of FIAT ownership nowadays Lancia has a quite limited range of cars, mostly rebadged Fiats or Alfas with more luxury equipment and softer (or even simpler) suspension settings. The Ypsilon showed here is a very good car of its type but it isn't innovative nor impressive at any area. The front of the car is designed intentionally to remind Lancias of the past, but the founder of the company would have preferred a more efficient solution and surely not a retro one. The Stratos for example (even though not a design of Vincenzo Lancia) was very modern and didn't referred to previous lancia cars. Lancia Aurelia B24  Lancia Aurelia was the first car in production to use a V6 engine.  This car was the convertible version and had many improvements over the first generation Aurelias.  Lancia Lambda  Lamda was very innovative and the one that established Lancia as an avant-garde company of its age. It was the first mass production car that used a monocoque frame and because of that the passenger cabin is much lower and close to the ground than the car of its age.  The front suspension was independent (one of the first cars to incorporate such a design) and it used springs and dampers designed by Lancia. Lancia Flaminia This particular Flaminia is equipped with a different body than the cars in production. It was designed by the studio Pininfarina (as mentioned in the exhibition leaflet) and it was designed as an aerodynamic study.  The front of the car is a little fuzzy and not particularly efficient aerodynamically but it was nevertheless impressive at its age.  The rear is much simpler with smooth lines and hides its age quite well.  This strange airfoil in the aft part of the roof is similar to the one found in the Stratos.  The wheels have flat hubcaps in order to reduce their drag. MIES by Poltronova - Archizoom Associati (1968)  comment this article register at robotpig.net/forum
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