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Announced in 1948, the Land Rover was devised by the Rover Car Company as a low volume workhorse for rural use, a multipurpose, four wheel drive vehicle cast in the mould of the wartime Jeep. Rover thought they might sell 50 a week, yet, within a year, they were making more Land Rovers than Rover [...]

In explore of a glamour automobile’ to convey some much needed enthusiasm to its Thema range, Lancia envisioned a Ferrari V8 engined version called the 8.32, 8 cylinders, 32 valves. The engine was the same one as that in the 308 Quattrovalvole, but adapted to the requirement of a luxurious saloon. It was certainly a [...]

In 1986 the regulations, for the World Rally Championship were changed, effectively restricting it to Group A cars, of which 5000 had to be produced within a 12 month period. Lancia’s Delta HF 4WD looked to have potential within these new rules, and so it proved. It won the manufactures World Championship in its first [...]

The Monte Carlo was designed by Fiat in conjunction with Pininfarina was a big brother companion model to the little X1/ 9. The decision to market the car as a Lancia was taken in 1973 in the midst of the fuel crisis, when it was felt the car wouldn’t sell in sufficient volume to make [...]

The first Stratos was a wild ‘dream car’ built by Bertone for the 1970 Turin Motor Show and based on the Fulvia 1600 HF. Once seen it would never be forgotten because it had the type of automobile magic that inspires the imagination. Knee high and centrally steered, it certainly inspired Lancia’s competitors’ manager, another [...]

The last of the real Lancias designed prior to the Fiat take over, the elegant little Coupe was a car with youthful driver appeal and all the engineering individually and refinement that singled out Lancia from the rest. If they had to pick out a car to bow out on, then original Lancia team couldn’t [...]

Launched at the beginning of 1963, the Flavia Sport was the last in trio of special bodied sporting Flavias based on a shorter 8ft 1in. (246 cm) platform than the factory. With its body crafted in alloy and hung on a slender steel frame, it was around 300 lbs (136 kg) lighter than the off [...]

Open cars don’t get any more glamorous than Pininfarina styled Lancias B24 Spider. Its shape, incorporating low slung warp around screen, cut away doors and cute corner bumpers, was aimed directly at the American market and that is exactly where many B24s went, as the US has always had a thing for cars whose design [...]

Whereas its predecessors, the Miura, was sensual and muscular, the Lamborghini Countach was a futuristic razor edged wedge, that at the time its launch, you could believe had just roared out of the hyperactive imagination of a sci-fi writer with a particular obsession for automotive speed and excellence. Like the Miura, its V 12 engine [...]

The Silhouette and Jalpa were conceived by Lamborghini’s new mid 1970s owners to tackle the big selling Ferrari 308 GTS head on. They weren’t new cars, instead they borrowed from the Urraco Lamborghini’s baby super car of the early 1970s. But where the Urraco was simple and elegant, the Silhouette was muscular and aggressive; a [...]