New 2012 Lancia Ypsilon

Lancia is presenting the fourth generation of its luxed-up supermini in a world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March. That case to marking the 25th anniversary since the introduction of the Ypsilon (first as the Y10 in 1985, then as the Y in 1996, and finally as the Ypsilon from 2003 and onwards).

Lancia model won’t be mistaken platform and mechanical hardware with Fiat’s small cars else thanks to the bespoke styling, which incorporates a number of design cues from the larger Delta. Exterior highlights include the hidden rear door handles that give the impression of a three-door model and a new interpretation of Lancia’s grille, designed to match Chrysler’s version as seen on the 200 and 300 models.

For 2012 model, Lancia Ypsilon promises to offer a high-quality interior and some 600 customization possibilities created by mixing and matching the 17 body colors (four of which are two-tone), 3 interior trim levels (Silver, Gold and Platinum), 6 different upholstery trims and 3 types of alloy wheels plus an extensive range of other options.

Lancia claims the new Ypsilon “can accommodate up to five people, has one of the most spacious boots in its segment, in relation to dimensions, and is one of the best in class in terms of passenger room. It is the Italian firm’s premium city car measures 3,840mm in length, 1,670mm in width, 1,510mm in height, and rides on a 2,390mm-long wheelbase.

The new Ypsilon which will go on sale from June across key European markets and from September under the Chrysler badge in Great Britain and Ireland.

2012 Lancia Ypsilon will be four engines on offer, depending on the market: a 1.2-liter petrol unit with 69HP; a 0.9-liter turbocharged two-cylinder petrol with 85HP; a 1.3-liter MultiJet II turbo diesel delivering 95HP and a dual-fuel petrol-LPG 1.2-liter unit producing 69H

All petrol and diesel engines are equipped with a Start&Stop system while some models also get low rolling resistance tires developed by Goodyear.

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New 2012 Lancia Grand Voyager

The Grand Voyager live based of the third Chrysler model to wear a Lancia badge is the Town & Country minivan and then Fiat Group decided to keep the European market name of the Town & Country, calling it the Lancia Grand Voyager.

2012 Lancia Grand Voyager has 5.14 metres in length, 1.99 metres in width and 1.72 metres tall, and rides on a 3.1 meter-long wheelbase. The car will European sales start later this year.

2012 Lancia Grand Voyager will be available in three trim levels (Silver, Gold and Platinum) and and two engine options, the Euro 5-compliant 283 HP 3.6-liter V6 petrol unit and the more appropriate for European consumers, 2.8-liter CRD diesel with particulate filter as standard delivering 163 HP and 360Nm.

Lancia says the petrol model returns an average fuel consumption of 12.3 lt/100km (19.1 mpg US), while the diesel version, 8.4 lt/100km (28 mpg US) with CO2 emissions of 227 g/km.

Lancia Grand Voyager is also at the cutting edge when it comes to safety features, as can be seen from the next-generation front airbags (both multi-stage), side window bags on the three rows of seats and side bags for shoulder and chest in the front row. Also available is an assisted parking system with the option of integrating a “rear back-up camera” with a screen showing a precise view of what is behind the vehicle during reversing.

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New 300-Based Lancia Thema Flagship

opportunity for Fiat-Chrysler partnership are endless, and many different plans were postponed after the last few months. The introduction of Alfa Romeo in the U.S. as a badge dodges Alfa Romeo, Lancia, U.S. imports and Chrysler - the list goes on.

But it seems that the plan was settled on - Chrysler and Hyundai will be linked together for the next generation of models.

It is not clear whether we like large Lancia Delta XOONI to get here, but Chrysler products would be rebadged and sold in Europe Lancia. Last we heard rumors that the now 200-series 300 e
According to AutoWeek, the car returned Themes plate, which was last used in 1984 - 1994 in the car. The new sedan will be based on the composition of the top 300 and the debut of minor adjustments to the exterior, which includes a newly designed instrument panel. Lancia last fighter was slow-selling work.

Diesel option for the European market, 230 hp 3.0-liter V-6 will be offered, derived VM Motori in Italy. Is a big, bold and uniquely American, not too sure how it fits into the Peugeot 300, but we look at the Geneva Motor Show next year.

Geneva Theme redesign Lancia Ypsilon and best-selling models. Upsilon gets five-door model, unlike the current three-door car.

It offers a three-door sales Ypsilon difficult because the vast majority of vehicles sold in five-door in Europe. These are set to go on sale late next year, while production takes place along the 300 at the Chrysler plant in Ontario, Canada.

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New 300-Based Lancia Thema Flagship

opportunity for Fiat-Chrysler partnership are endless, and many different plans were postponed after the last few months. The introduction of Alfa Romeo in the U.S. as a badge dodges Alfa Romeo, Lancia, U.S. imports and Chrysler - the list goes on.

But it seems that the plan was settled on - Chrysler and Hyundai will be linked together for the next generation of models.

It is not clear whether we like large Lancia Delta XOONI to get here, but Chrysler products would be rebadged and sold in Europe Lancia. Last we heard rumors that the now 200-series 300 e
According to AutoWeek, the car returned Themes plate, which was last used in 1984 - 1994 in the car. The new sedan will be based on the composition of the top 300 and the debut of minor adjustments to the exterior, which includes a newly designed instrument panel. Lancia last fighter was slow-selling work.

Diesel option for the European market, 230 hp 3.0-liter V-6 will be offered, derived VM Motori in Italy. Is a big, bold and uniquely American, not too sure how it fits into the Peugeot 300, but we look at the Geneva Motor Show next year.

Geneva Theme redesign Lancia Ypsilon and best-selling models. Upsilon gets five-door model, unlike the current three-door car.

It offers a three-door sales Ypsilon difficult because the vast majority of vehicles sold in five-door in Europe. These are set to go on sale late next year, while production takes place along the 300 at the Chrysler plant in Ontario, Canada.

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The Elegant Cars Of Lancia Delta HPE Concept

Lancia Delta HPE Concept Cars Digital

Lancia Delta HPE Concept Cars Digital

Lancia Delta HPE Concept Cars Digital

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Fiat Explains Under-The-Radar Paris Appearance, will Debut New Models in Late 2011

Fiat has addressed a question at least a few people were asking this year in Paris, explaining its lack of significant presence at this year's Paris Motor Show. According to CEO Sergio Marchionne, Fiat has been building up steam, waiting to release new product until late next year in order to better balance the brand's many companies' funds.

"We have saved ammunition awaiting for the recovery," Sergio Marchionne told journalists on the sidelines of the Paris Auto Show. "New models will arrive at the end of 2011, early 2012. Launching new products in a market that is so structurally weak has no sense," Marchionne added.

Hopefully between now and then we'll at least get a few hints at what Fiat will offer in the form of some sexy new concepts.

Other than waiting for that to happen, expect the super-sized Italian automaker to be concentrating on the Chrysler/Lancia revamp as well as trying to acquaint people in the States with the 500 mini and, hopefully, a new type of Fiat.

Expect more news on Fiat's product plans as it becomes available.

By Phil Alex

Source: Reuters

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Fiat Panda and Lancia Ypsilon Replacements Pushed Back for 2012

Following CEO Sergio Marchionne's comments at the 2010 Paris Motor Show (see here), Autonews Europe has uncovered new information regarding the Fiat Group's future product launches.

One of Fiat's most important models in Europe, the third generation Panda, was originally due in summer 2010 but its launch had already been pushed back to September 2011. Now, sources inside the company told the news site that the introduction of the small five-door hatchback will be further delayed until January 2012.

The third generation Lancia Ypsilon supermini has also been delayed more than two years, as have the replacements for the Fiat Idea / Lancia Musa small MPV twins and the Fiat Multipla 3+3 seater people carrier, which has been in production since 1998. The latter two launches were scheduled for December 2011 but have now been postponed until the second half of 2012.

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne froze his company's spending in 2008 as the financial crisis hit Europe. Spending was set to return to normal this year, but has now been postponed indefinitely in light of what Marchionne perceives as an unimproved European new car market.

He now predicts a weaker Q1 2011 than Q1 2010, due to the ending of scrappage schemes in many European countries. The rest of 2011 is expected to be no better sale wise for Fiat, Marchionne predicts.

Analysts are predicting that Fiat's new car sales are likely to continue to decline without any new products; sales in Europe fell 13.9% to 723,356 vehicles in the first eight months of 2011 in a market that declined only 3.5%, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA).

Stuart Pearson, an auto analyst at Morgan Stanley in London, says: "Fiat is playing a dangerous game and by delaying key models risks missing any European Union recovery if they are wrong on the timing. Customers are only paying for brand new metal."

The report did not mention any plans on future Alfa Romeo cars.

By Tristan Hankins

Source: ANE [sub.req]

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Fresh Videos of New Lancia Stratos Shot During Final Testing

The developers of the New Stratos have released some new video footage of their Ferrari F430 Scuderia-based supercar. The first clip shows WTTC and former Formula-1-Pilot Tiago Monteiro fine-tuning the chassis of the New Stratos at Balooco test track, Italy, while the second video is from the final wind tunnel test that took place on September 13th at Pininfarina's plant in Turin.

We're still waiting for the full technical specs and performance numbers but for now, head over the jump to watch the two aforementioned videos plus one more with the owner of the one-off supercar, Michael Stoschek, tackling the Arosa hillclimb in his classic Lancia Stratos Group 4.

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Tata Motors it's full determination to get well-known studio Pininfarina

Family Pininfarina owning well-known design company Pininfarina SpA, has employed Italian Banca Leonardo for sale of a control package of the firm, has informed a source in the company. As informs Reuters, sale of a package of the developer of design for various models Ferrari, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Jaguar, Volvo, Alfa Romeo and Lancia is a transaction part on settlement of debts Pininfarina before banks.

Company Pincar which supervises family actives, at the same time, a family completely does not leave completely with Pininfarina SpA, and reserves the right to itself the full participant of board of directors. As the future investors are called French financier Vincent Bollore and Indian Tata Motors Ltd. In a consortium with Fiat SpA.

The studio of autodesign Pininfarina is created in the thirtieth years of last century and is since then family business. In the company work about 3 thousand persons. The company has started to experience financial difficulties still couple of years back. So, in April, 2008 Pininfarina has officially informed on the intention to sell 25% of actives. The Italian company planned to direct a part of this money to firm Bollore for payment of creation of an electromobile.

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Italians soon will show new generation Lancia Ypsilon

The Italian mark Lancia widely popular in the past is in demand today basically in the local car market.

Muffled positioning, the narrow and illogically built lineup, the overestimated prices — all it has led to that in many countries have simply ceased to buy production Lancia. But Italians still hope to break a situation. Including thanks to new generation of small hatchback Ypsilon.

The car will be realised on platform Gamma which also use Fiat Grande Punto and Alfa Romeo MiTo. Certainly, Lancia will receive a corresponding stuffing: petrol motors 1.4 (78 and 95 forces), 1.4 T (120 and 150), diesel engines 1.3 JTD (90) and 1.6 JTD (120). In the chassis racks McPherson in front and braided a beam behind will be applied.

While it is not known, on which the motor-show debuts new generation Lancia Ypsilon. The premiere should be loud, after all the B-class hatchback is the most bought model of the company. Apparently, car presentation will date for a scale Frankfurt motor show. But it is our thoughts, and Italians — a question here is how will arrive.

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