Just seen the new Lancia Delta
Just seen the new Lancia Delta
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Nigol

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67 posts

198 months

Thursday 6th August 2009
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Just spent my lunchtime gawping at a foreign registered Lancia Delta and have to say i quite like it, looks a bit like a Seat Leon but overall not bad. Pity they axed plans for Lancia to come to UK but it seems the only lancia fans left here want an integrale version...its a bit like mitsubishi making the evo for one crowd and the lancer 1.5 for the other....

Any one else seen one - or even own one?

rupert the dog

1,433 posts

239 months

Friday 7th August 2009
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Saw loads of them in Sardinia a few weeks back. Nice looking car, isn't it?

Muzzlehatch

4,764 posts

264 months

Friday 7th August 2009
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When the photos were released I thought is look terrible. But upon seeing one in the flesh several months ago, I had to admit it looked great, although some of the cheap detail detracts from an overall impressive package.

It is an enormous car, so there would be no danger of an "integrale" version, as even a "fast" version would end up being more of a 4-door GT than hot hatch.

I know a chap that has one, over on the Club Lancia Sport forum.

Al Tee

53 posts

224 months

Wednesday 12th August 2009
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Who would that be then James? I thought you all hated them over there as it's not a 'grale successor wink

Muzzlehatch

4,764 posts

264 months

Wednesday 12th August 2009
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Hi Alan. I don't know him personally; I saw the car at Goodwood trackday in the Spring and had a brief natter.

Still got the 500? Ours has been spot on since day 1. She wants the CC now (well a CC Abarth, but I don't think they're doing oen of those).

Al Tee

53 posts

224 months

Thursday 13th August 2009
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Muzzlehatch said:
Hi Alan. I don't know him personally; I saw the car at Goodwood trackday in the Spring and had a brief natter.

Still got the 500? Ours has been spot on since day 1. She wants the CC now (well a CC Abarth, but I don't think they're doing oen of those).
What at the LMC track day? That would be LMC vice president Paul Baker with the black Delta that he had on long term loan from Lancia. That was the car that was bought over for the LMC stand at the NEC.

Muzzlehatch

4,764 posts

264 months

Thursday 13th August 2009
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You're right, I'm mixing up that one with another that I saw at Spa Italia more recently. I'm getting old!

Al Tee

53 posts

224 months

Saturday 15th August 2009
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Have you actually driven one yet?

Muzzlehatch

4,764 posts

264 months

Tuesday 18th August 2009
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No, I've only put my grubby fingerprints everywhere. I have to say, it's a big car... almost certainly big enough to fit my bike in more comfortably than the Grale or 147 scratchchin