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Auto Talk => The Mainstream Room => Topic started by: 2o6 on February 14, 2011, 02:56:54 PM

Title: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: 2o6 on February 14, 2011, 02:56:54 PM
I like it, and since Lancia and Chrysler are now one in the same, this may make it here.


Looks very upscale and interesting.

(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/02/110214lnuovaypsilon01.jpg)
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/02/110214lnuovaypsilon02.jpg)
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/02/110214lnuovaypsilon04.jpg)
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/14/lancia-launches-all-new-ypsilon-premium-hatch-ahead-of-geneva-de/
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: mzziaz on February 14, 2011, 03:28:56 PM
Lancia has been unable to build good looking cars for a while.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Submariner on February 14, 2011, 03:36:00 PM
Handsome outside - very handsome inside.  Hmm...
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2011, 04:06:43 PM
The front looks kind of bland aside from the odd looking grill and the back is just weird.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: 68_427 on February 14, 2011, 04:18:18 PM
Look Chinese as all hell IMO.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2011, 04:33:30 PM
Quote from: 68_427 on February 14, 2011, 04:18:18 PM
Look Chinese as all hell IMO.
+1
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: MX793 on February 14, 2011, 04:37:29 PM
For some reason the white one kind of reminds me of Marvin the robot from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Payman on February 14, 2011, 04:45:04 PM
Just threw up in my mouth
*gag*
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: 2o6 on February 14, 2011, 04:47:18 PM
I like the way it looks, it has a lot of shapes and lines that flow into one another. It's very interesting, without being boring and predictable or overdone and super ugly like many new designs.


I think it would make a nice little B-segment to slot at the bottom of Chrysler's range.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: CJ on February 14, 2011, 04:53:51 PM
I think it looks terrible.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Payman on February 14, 2011, 05:01:11 PM
Quote from: 2o6 on February 14, 2011, 04:47:18 PM
I like the way it looks, it has a lot of shapes and lines that flow into one another. It's very interesting, without being boring and predictable or overdone and super ugly like many new designs.


I think it would make a nice little B-segment to slot at the bottom of Chrysler's range.

It's hideous.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: the Teuton on February 14, 2011, 05:16:47 PM
That shifter knob -- did they steal it from an '80s Volvo?
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Cookie Monster on February 14, 2011, 05:20:25 PM
The way the shift boot doesn't touch the knob is irritating as well.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: sportyaccordy on February 14, 2011, 05:33:59 PM
Looks like they put wire wheels on a Little Tykes car

Cimarron me once, shame on you.

Cimarron me twice, shame on the human race.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: 2o6 on February 14, 2011, 05:41:41 PM
Quote from: sportyaccordy on February 14, 2011, 05:33:59 PM
Looks like they put wire wheels on a Little Tykes car

Cimarron me once, shame on you.

Cimarron me twice, shame on the human race.

There are plenty of upscale small hatches in Europe. Heck, this in the MiTo are roughly the same size.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: the Teuton on February 14, 2011, 05:48:24 PM
Quote from: sportyaccordy on February 14, 2011, 05:33:59 PM
Looks like they put wire wheels on a Little Tykes car

Cimarron me once, shame on you.

Cimarron me twice, shame on the human race.

I thought Oldsmobiles were built for the human race. :huh:
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Rupert on February 14, 2011, 06:25:34 PM
I want to like it, because it's a Lancia, but, uh... :huh:
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: sportyaccordy on February 14, 2011, 06:27:38 PM
Lol @ Cimarron me once and twice. I don't care, that was funny
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Payman on February 14, 2011, 06:46:20 PM
Quote from: sportyaccordy on February 14, 2011, 06:27:38 PM
Lol @ Cimarron me once and twice. I don't care, that was funny

I'm laughing on the inside.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Raza on February 14, 2011, 08:23:16 PM
Quote from: thecarnut on February 14, 2011, 05:20:25 PM
The way the shift boot doesn't touch the knob is irritating as well.

It's probably a pull up ring to get into reverse.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: SVT666 on February 14, 2011, 11:09:45 PM
Why must automakers insist on putting the gauges int he middle of the dash?
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: the Teuton on February 14, 2011, 11:26:38 PM
I'm still trying to figure out why we don't have the Chrysler Delta yet.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: nickdrinkwater on February 15, 2011, 07:45:37 AM
Here's the rest of the "new" Lancia range (Chrysler in the UK):

(http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFFF/Car/Lancia/Lancia-1521111101639431600x1060.jpg)

(http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFF/Car/Lancia/Lancia-1521111101621611600x1060.jpg)

(http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFF/Car/Lancia/Lancia-15211111015597711600x1060.jpg)

(http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFF/Car/Lancia/Lancia-1521111101629271600x1060.jpg)

(http://cdn.images.autocar.co.uk/612x408FFFFFFF/Car/Lancia/Lancia-1521111101607391600x1060.jpg)
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: omicron on February 15, 2011, 07:59:07 AM
If we're being honest, this is proof that Lancia is as unimaginative as the rest of the European manufacturers. What a clumsy, needlessly-fiddly Euro-typical design.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: cawimmer430 on February 15, 2011, 10:53:42 AM
Looks pretty decent actually. Compared to its current European competitors this looks pretty upscale (out of their league!). Interior looks good from a design and possibly material point of view (can't really tell from the photos).
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Northlands on February 15, 2011, 11:23:58 AM
Quote from: mzziaz on February 14, 2011, 03:28:56 PM
Lancia has been unable to build good looking cars for a while.

:hesaid:
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Madman on February 15, 2011, 12:21:06 PM
I like it.  It's not a bland carbon-copy of a hundred other cars out there.  In a world where most cars try to look like nothing, here's a car that is at least trying to look like something.  Slap a Chrysler badge on it and bring it over....NOW!
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: ChrisV on February 15, 2011, 01:13:17 PM
I was thinking the grille looked aufully Chrysler and not much Lancia when I saw the first pic, then I scrolled down and saw the rest of the Chry... er, Lancias. ;)

It's not bad as far as the segment goes. But I'd rather have a Thema... (Wonder how the European market will take to that Thema...)
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: Raza on February 15, 2011, 02:07:21 PM
Quote from: SVT666 on February 14, 2011, 11:09:45 PM
Why must automakers insist on putting the gauges int he middle of the dash?

I think it makes it cheaper for them to develop LHD and RHD models for different markets.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: 68_427 on February 15, 2011, 02:12:48 PM
The Thema looks great.  :lol:

I wonder if they get different taillights?
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: omicron on February 16, 2011, 06:34:32 AM
Perhaps there needs to be a new Thema 8.32 with the Italia's 4.5 V8.
Title: Re: Lancia Ypsilon!
Post by: AltinD on February 16, 2011, 07:38:33 AM
And to think this model used to be called Y10, it was a very popular car in Italy and was build by Autobianchi, untill FIAT bought them, I believe earlier in this decade, and continued making them under the Lancia brand.