Thanks for checking out this video, hope you enjoyed it! And especially thanks to those of who came to the Premiere! Of course, I only run this channel as a hobby, and so there may be errors in accuracy or editing mistakes. I do try to avoid them, but it is difficult (especially on a project as big as this) to avoid them. Sorry!
@@masonpuu8597 Saab went bankrupt about 8-10 years ago. I remember it and Volvo was sold to China around that time as well. A big shame to get rid of both of our Swedish carbrands that has been around for many decades, now there is only Koenigsegg left wich barely has any history.
*33:14** what are you talking about? Lancia is the manufacturer with the most wins in the WRC - 10 world Championship for Manufacturers, with 6 consecutives win by Delta HF Integrale alone. Stratos is the only car in the history purposly Designed and Build for one purpose and one purpose only - TO DECIMATE EVERYTHING ON THE RALLY STAGES!!! 037 is the last car with rear wheel drive to win the WRC and the only car to ever defeat the Mighty Quattro! Their rivals maked just a racing cars ...Lancia created a Legends! Lancia is the definition of Rallying!*
Thank you for bringing this kind of content to RU-vid. I feel like not enough RU-vidrs focus on rally and you really fill the gap on the platform. Thank you for being here and making quality instead of quantity.
That was excellent! I've found that a lot of videos about Lancia or other manufacturers tend to be sensationalised and over edited. You always bring quality to your videos and you present facts in a cohesive yet intriguing way! I can't wait to see what the future holds for your channel!
Thank you for the kind words! I hope to bring some more varied content over the next few months- I'll be posting an update video soon, so keep your eyes peeled!
So tragic to see what Lancia has become. Cars like the Delta Integrale are genuinely one of my absolute favorites, but ones like the Ypsilon are absolutely horrible. Even though I don't have much hope for Lancia I really wish they get back to former glory some day... Anyways great documentary, keep it up!
Really great video only a little nip pick: I think you forgot to mention that the Lancia fulvia was fwd, wich is really important as it also was a Major innovation.
You are truly one of the best automotive channels on youtube right now. I can't imagine anything less than a bright future for you. All the best to you and your channel :)
Sad to see an iconic brand fall from grace and being turned into a husk of it's former glory.....it always feels satisfying to look at the Martini-Lancia livery in action.
Please oh please keep doing more of these videos!!!! I love them!!!! Lancia has always been my favorite rally manufacturer, especially the Lancia Delta S4!! Honestly, you make great videos and content that I enjoy watching!!! So keep up the great work!!!
Immediate subscription! Before even watching the entire video, the title and the first frames are enough for me, an extra-huge fan of the beloved Lancia. What a wonderful job you did! Thank you!!
Great video! Its a shame what happened to the company, always makes me very sad when I see an Ypsilon or an rebadged 300c when you recall what they're once were able to make.
This was such a good watch. The 037 is one of my favourite cars. It's such a shame they didn't take advantage of Michael Stoschek and his idea of reviving the Stratos. Great video bro. Have a good one. Chur
My friend thank you for this thoroughly researched and high-quality content that you provide to this platform. I have truly learned a lot watching your videos and they are really well-made. It shows your effort and passion for motorsport, particularly rally. If I may just make a brief constructive criticism: the archive videos that you show, which are a lot naturally, tend to have a very unstable framerate, like advancing and pausing for the briefest of moments while playing. I suspect this has something to do with the settings you use while rendering your edited videos. If you could check and correct that, your docs will be beyond perfect. Sorry if I'm overstepping. Hopefully it's taken lightly. Keep up the good quality my friend. Cheers!
No worries- it was the recording software I used to use, my old laptop simply couldn't handle the higher quality it was trying to push out. On better hardware now though!
The funny thing is...the Lancia Ypsilon alone and in only one market at the moment actually saved the Lancia Brand! The new Stellantis will relaunch Lancia to it's former glory! 😀
Ah, the Delta. That was the family car at the time of my birth. Unfortunately the lack of AC in a hot summer country like Spain meant it wasn't ideal to keep, specially with a baby onboard. While my father doesn't regret selling it (it was much needed change), he really misses what a great car it was. This was a very nice documentary, do you have plans for making one for Citröen (AKA the Ford of Europe)?
I do take requests, however I will be attempting to steer away from long documentaries like this one as it was incredibly tiring to produce. But, you never know, it could happen eventually :)
You got another subscriber, and a few more coming from my buddies. This is fantastic content keep at it the production quality is amazing for such a small channel. You will make it to a million subs one day I'd bet on it.
I just opened this up after loving the group B video and thought to myself what is this new interesting channel, he must have LOADS of subs.. I love your content and i aplaud your dedication to rallying. Thanks for making your awesome videos.
Very good overall,some models and one-offs not included but you would need hours/or a series to cover everything.Would be nice to see more of the trucks,vans,buses ,military vehicles etc. Flavia based Jolly vans for example. The Stratos V6 was the Ferrari Dino 2.4 L not 2.6L as stated. And the real reason Lancia left rallying was Fiat could not afford both Alfa-Romeo and Lancia to be developed further and decided in favour of Alfa. R.I.P Lancia.
@21:35 - Alfa Romeo Carabo, one of the earliest (1968?) of the wedge shaped "super cars" from Giugaros genius (sry if that's misspelled). I had a Hot Wheels of it colored orange with a large blue "8" on the front, I didn't actually know what the car was called or that it even actually existed in real life, because it was stamped with the name " SUPER 8" underside the car. It was exciting finding this out years later! Cool video, thanks !!
I had an idea for my own car company called Pegasus, which would make performance cars based on predecessors from many different manufacturers. One of the three flagship models, alongside the AE86-based Pegasus Levin and the "all in one chassis" Pegasus Striker (can be bought as a hatchback, wagon, or land rover style SUV, depending on trim), was the Pegasus Dextra, a 4-door twin-charged AWD hatchback based on the Delta Integrale Evo and Delta S4
finally some information on the *fall* of lancia. every video i watch about lancia barely talks about how lancia turned to garbage in the late nineties and now i know its because some drivers left for toyota and sponsership money. honestly such a shame and someone should buy lancia off fiat
Very f*cking nice Documentary, Thumbs up for that. An yeah sadly there isnt a kicking ass lancia anymore, and the new stratos is no real lancia. But maybe they'll do the Phenux-Move and get up from the ashes (?) xD
Actually lancia Ypsilon Is really popular and often a youth's choice as First car due to italian licence restrictions on the first years of acquiring it
Every time I see (even) an Ypsilon out three, I am wondering what an astonishing brand Lancia is. I still would prefer an Ypsilon instead other cars from its level - at least, it's Lancia. The new Delta is pretty cool either, with its nice 1.9 biturbo diesel. Maybe I should buy one instead of my 166... Maybe someday I will.
In fact Lancia pulled out of the WRC at the end of 1992, so drivers Didier Auriol and Juha Kankkunen moved to Toyota. Carlos Sainz went from Toyota to drive the Lancia Delta, but that was not a factory team, it was a private team ( Grifone ) that ran the Delta Evo. And 1993 was a very poor year for Carlos. In 1992 Didier Auriol had a record (at that time) of winning 6 rally's in one season, but not the Championship.
Although a good effort, there are a lot of incorrect things being said. I won't list them all, but 1 big mistake is the reason why Lancia withdrew from rallying. The reason is that Lancia were so dominant in rallying and Ferrari in F1 were investing millions but still not winning (the last F1 championship was '79), so Fiat sent the Lancia racing division to Ferrari in F1. All the major players: Engineers (Lombardi ecc), meccanics, C. Florio all went to Ferrari F1 in a block. By the way in the rally scene, private teams won championships in front of the main competion for 1-2 years in wrc and more years in european and national championships.
That was very well put together considering the less than 40 minutes running time. Lancia's fate was sealed by Fiats bad managing The Beta and Gamma were disasters in the UK market and other north European climates and like their fellow Fiat and Alf models were plagued with server rusting issue alone with the standard poor electrics found in most Italian cars from that period the legend of that time was you could watch these Cars rust in front of you . there were product recalls the Beta Montecarlo original planed to succeed the Fiat X19 had a major braking issue. you could buy all these cars for stupidly cheap money 2nd hand because no wanted to buy them. I guess I regret not buying a Beta back then with its Super charged engine. now they are collector's items. Lancia had to give their D50 GP Cars over to Ferrari because of money issue's Ferrari needed a new GP cars to replace their failed GP car that year the D50 was simple rebadged and with Ferrari's GP Resources behind it went on to be very successful. Ferrari did not for get this in return suppling V6 engine's to Lancia for the Stratos. The Stratos was a huge shock to Motorsport and rallying to successful for those running other teams and at the FIA when Ferrari added a multi Valve head for the Dino V6 engine taking the output to around 300 + BHP the Governing body moved very quickly banning the 32 valve units sighting unfair advantage . Lancia with only allowed to continue with the 16 valve units of course the cars still won. There were other short coming literally the car was to short remember the wheel base of a Stratos is about the same as an an original Mini with near 300 hp and the weight of a shopping cart. the Lancia 0.37 my favarite Lancia 0.37 this time Lancia teamed up with Abarth this time also part of Fiat and Dellara racing cars. Lancia saw a slim chance to win the first year of the planned Group B rules because all their rivels had no real Group B cars nearing the end of development before 1984. Audi was the biggest threat but Lancia looked at the colander for the WRC in 1983 and saw that enough events suited a RWD drive car to make it worth the investment and the risk. while Audi were still trouble with issues with the big and heavy complex Quattro. They also were smart enough to sign Walter Röhrl not to win the championship because he no long was interested in doing so already been a multiple European champion and 2 times WRC winner. there also some famed under handed tactics like getting the Road gritted in the high Alps and having snow cleared by Italian snow ploughs to win first time out at the Monti. on the subject of those 200 cars for the entry requirements. it is also legend that they never built 200 roading going cars but they were not alone in that one. Röhrl almost won the WRC even if he was just rallying for the fun of it in the end Lancia only won the Constructors Championship Audi took the Drivers Crown and very quickly moved to secure Röhrl driving skills for 1984. The 0.37 win at any cost construction also led to a death of one of their drivers in 1984 in a now outclassed car but still fast of sealed surfaces in Corsica saw the loss of one of their leading drivers after hitting a tree and been killed instantly sadly one year later the same event would take the lives of Rallying most promising talent and the Co Driver too in the Crazy Delta S4 another car that pushed the rule beyond the weak implemented safety rules that had been put in place by the FIA at the time. Anyone who saw these two cars close up understands just how much they lack in safety compared to some of the then Group 4 cars or of the Audi's and Fords by modern standards death traps. I was luck enough to be at the debut of the Lancia Delta S4 on that Lombard RAC Rally in winter 1984 all the Group B cars were there the Lancia was by far the quickest car I had ever seen at that time and all this on Snow Ice and gravel and mud. it was never really the same at the follow years event after all the tragic events at the start of 1986 and knowing Group B was dead for 1987. Of course we were back for 1988 but it was not the same even though the Delta Integrale proved to be a monster in rallying until the midish 90's here I repeated the same mistake around about 2002 I passed on the chance to buy a Delta HF Integrale evo 1 the first year of the 16 Valve power unit with 210 bhp in street going form and the start of the wider wheel base and arches' 3000 pounds and a lefthand drive , not something a regret though , keeping the thing running would have cost to much anyhow. loved the video thanks.
Good documentary... but why you didn't mention Thema by Ferrari, innovation of Thesis and so on...I own Lancia Thesis emblema and this car is one of the most high tech cars of its time...first car to offer EPB as standard, rear LED lights as standard, skyhook with 6 units...I mean RR Phantom copied rear design from the Thesis...THESIS is the most underrated car in the 21st century...people cannot believe their eyes when they see my thesis with all the electronics and features...
I hope some crazy baron the likes of Christian von Koenigsegg buys Lancia and start produsing wild rally machines and start produsing other monsters fore track race catagories and start building slick street legal versons of their competetive cars at a semi affordeble price.
@@Redgolf2 It should be noted the Irish armoured cars weren't built by Lancia. They were locally built but using a bought in Lancia Triota running chassis. Likewise the WW1 Italian armoured cars were actually an Ansaldo product built on similarly bought in Lancia chassis.
Ask Henri Toivonen if he had fun. I guess Lancia had priorities and human life wasn't on the top. That was "fun". That was the last straw for group B. Even more "fun".
Shame and doom on all those who hammered nails onto Lancias coffin out of dumb decisions and pure greed. Chrysler added peanuts to automobile history, compared to Lancia. Some rich guys should buy out the rights from Fiat, get the several retro makers (Chimera, Phenomenon Stratos etc.) into the boat and clash some 4WD Hybrid 037 onto the stage.
