Lancia - Geschichte

The company Lancia was founded in 1908 by Lancia and Fogolin. Vincenco Lancia submitted his force and creative power to designing the first Lancia with very sporty 12-HP engine. The Lancia models were named and arranged according to the Greek alphabet, a brilliant idée Lancia fell back on much later. Many innovations in the automobile construction relate back to the company Lancia. Even if they do not appear in a Lancia for the first time as such, nevertheless, Lancia helped in launching them to the market. In the field of the bodywork construction, Lancia established a name with its light, partly aluminum manufactured constructions, which already in the beginning of the history of car-building were extraordinary because of their low drag coefficients. Always one strived to combine improvements in design with special innovations, as for example the self-supporting bodywork. There were especially small and bigger sporty engines. A V-engine is remarkable, as its angle between the cylinder rows is such that a common cylinder head is possible. The engines were arranged conventional, or according to the Transaxle-principle, and with front-wheel drive. In addition the independent suspension came in very early, e.g., with semi-trailing arms in the driven rear axle or very advanced rigid axle systems like the De Dion axis.