The Lancia Ardea Car ownership in Italy during the 1930s was largely confined to the wealthy and the very wealthy. While Italy’s beautiful people rattled their jewellery in appreciation of voluptuous model-draped show-cars at the Villa d’Esté Concours, Fiat’s 501 and 509 models had mobilised a whole new class of ... weiterlesen
B. Lindsay
Production of the Lambda ended in 1931, when Lancia launched two new models as its replacement rather than one; the 2.6 litre V8 Astura and the 1.9 litre 4-cylinder Lancia Artena, using fundamentally similar underpinnings. The larger 4-litre V8 Dilambda continued alongside the new models until 1936. Sometimes dismissed as ... weiterlesen