Fulvietta pics
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Huib Geurink
Re: Fulvietta pics
The front is becoming rather good. I hope the sharp lines on top of the wings as well as the center line on the bonnet are clearly visible from the drivers seat which will provide good visual anchors to the world around.
Let's further hope, that it has double wishbones at the front and that it is light an agile (I always see the Fulvia coupe as a light footed ballerina rather than a giant on clay feet) with a nicely revving eager 1600 engine.
You think they would think of writing "benzina", "aqua" and "olio" under the instruments instead of the hieroglyphs everbody uses today? I would like to know for sure I am driving an Italian car and not and Egyptian one.
Let's further hope, that it has double wishbones at the front and that it is light an agile (I always see the Fulvia coupe as a light footed ballerina rather than a giant on clay feet) with a nicely revving eager 1600 engine.
You think they would think of writing "benzina", "aqua" and "olio" under the instruments instead of the hieroglyphs everbody uses today? I would like to know for sure I am driving an Italian car and not and Egyptian one.
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Simon Davis
Re: Fulvietta pics
What a wonderful looking car, when will it be available? Hopefully will be available as a HF.
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Pieter
Re: Fulvietta pics
What about this one:
I hope that Fiat will use the Formula 1600 Rally-experience they have with the Punto to put this Fulvietta into rallying!
Wow...
I hope that Fiat will use the Formula 1600 Rally-experience they have with the Punto to put this Fulvietta into rallying!
Wow...
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Alan Wesson
Re: Fulvietta pics
A nice car, but... the Lancia grille isn't very prominent. This wouldn't be a big deal, but almost every (Japanese, at least!) car manufacturer seems intent on using Lancia grilles on their cars (Mitsubishi used to be the worst offender - some of their early 90s cars looked as if they were actually Lancias!) - the most prominent 'offenders' nowadays are Honda (Accord and others) and Mazda (the RX8 would be a Lancia if it had a bar down the middle of the grille - I reckon the grille panel off my Dedra would be a perfect fit in the hole!). So... if everyone else wants their car to look like a Lancia, why can't Lancia at least try a bit harder to make their cars look like Lancias?? - Cheers, Alan Wesson
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Bert Ewalds
Re: Fulvietta pics
This is still an artist impression, but pictures of the real thing did appear in various magazines over the last month. In the english Auto Express of jan 16, (equivalent to Dutch Autoweek) there were pictures of a red one, unfortunately I gave away the magazine to the MGclub, since it also contained an article on a new MG midget.
In a German Car magazine, available mid Januari there was a picture of a blue one.
Both Magazines claimed that the car would appear at the Geneva show this year and that 1000 cars would be build for sale in 2004. The magazines were differing in their opinion on the basics of the car
The Germans claimed it was based on the Fiat Barchetta, the Auto Express people claimed it was based on a new Punto platform.
The cars in the pictures were real driving examples, both carried german licence plates.
Maybe a German or English visitor to the site can scan the pictures from the magazines?
In a German Car magazine, available mid Januari there was a picture of a blue one.
Both Magazines claimed that the car would appear at the Geneva show this year and that 1000 cars would be build for sale in 2004. The magazines were differing in their opinion on the basics of the car
The Germans claimed it was based on the Fiat Barchetta, the Auto Express people claimed it was based on a new Punto platform.
The cars in the pictures were real driving examples, both carried german licence plates.
Maybe a German or English visitor to the site can scan the pictures from the magazines?
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Randy Adams
Re: Fulvietta pics
OK, here I go being the killjoy for the umpteenth time.
Why should we get excited about an ersatz 60s car? The Fulvia was a brilliant car which, if marketed properly in the U.S. in the late 1960s, would have saved the company as an independent concern. A tepid aesthetic recreation of that car mounted on banal Fiat mechanicals is not my idea of excitement.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm pretty full up to here with ersatz vintage cars such as the nuevo Mini, the BMW two seaters, the Ford Thunderbird and the Jag S type. The great cars are great because they express the best of their eras. The rules haven't changed. Modern cars that express the best of post-2000 design theory are the ones to look out for.
My one non-Lancia is a Maserati Biturbo coupe. I thought this a somewhat underwhelming looking car when it first came out but today it looks like the most magnificent, uncompromising expression of late 70s, early 80s wedge angularity. Every view of the car expresses this. My Beta coupe is one of the finest coupe designs from the 1970s. I do not want a throwback design. Let's leave that to the terminally nostalgic British.
Why should we get excited about an ersatz 60s car? The Fulvia was a brilliant car which, if marketed properly in the U.S. in the late 1960s, would have saved the company as an independent concern. A tepid aesthetic recreation of that car mounted on banal Fiat mechanicals is not my idea of excitement.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm pretty full up to here with ersatz vintage cars such as the nuevo Mini, the BMW two seaters, the Ford Thunderbird and the Jag S type. The great cars are great because they express the best of their eras. The rules haven't changed. Modern cars that express the best of post-2000 design theory are the ones to look out for.
My one non-Lancia is a Maserati Biturbo coupe. I thought this a somewhat underwhelming looking car when it first came out but today it looks like the most magnificent, uncompromising expression of late 70s, early 80s wedge angularity. Every view of the car expresses this. My Beta coupe is one of the finest coupe designs from the 1970s. I do not want a throwback design. Let's leave that to the terminally nostalgic British.