The things they say. . . .

“Lancia then adopted front-wheel-drive but this was obviously not the reason for the progressive decline of that once-glorious marque. The choice of models, their excessive weight and high manufacturing costs were, in my opinion, the reasons for failure”. — Dante Giacosa, Fiat’s famous Chief Engineer, expressing his view of Lancia in 1955, in his recent book “Forty Years of Design with Fiat”. Would he regard the new Lancia Gamma as restoring the status quo? 

W.B.