The exhibition.



The exhibition hall is quite impressive. It is made from aluminum 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 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 colors, 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 that had a snatchy behavior because of the very short wheelbase and low polar moment of inertia.


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 refer to previous Lancia cars.