Auto Italia article

[Stephan Protzen]

The British magazine Auto Italia (issue 147) has published a nice article comparing the Fulvia to the Alfa Bertone and the Fiat 124 Coupe. The Fulvia comes out quite favorably. My only criticism is that they used early cars except for the Fulvia, which is a series 2. A S1 would have been a better comparison to the Fiat AC Coupe and the Alfa "stepnose" Junior.

[Johnny48]

please explain why S1 ? is there really "much difference" between an S1 & S2 at the end of the day ?

[Stephan Protzen]

Im sure the S2 are great cars, I just feel the S1 is a closer comparison to the other cars. The article mentions the dog leg shift pattern for example. Visually the UK headlight treatment on S2 pictured distracts from the purity of the design.
There are many differences between S1 and S2, some experts here will know better than I, at the end of the day both are Fulvias.
At the time Lancia thought of the changes as improvements

[Peter Cripps]

If anyone wants to see scans of the article, feel free to drop me an e-mail.

Peter