Rare and adorable! Autobianchi Bianchina - Tiny van tested 

Very much a part of my childhood too. Love it.

As a Polish I could say mine too

True!

Yeah, we all get depressed and then watch little vids like this and it makes us laugh. Cheers Hubnut and all the followers, love you x

Echo these sentiments

@@the.internet Amen

@@the.internet Stay strong mate x

I saw an 850 ragtop in San Rafael, California, within the past year or two. In an auto repair shop, of course. If nothing else, the return of Fiats that generally resemble these old ones, and the Disney/Pixar movie ‘Cars’ has made the 850s more likely to cause folks to wonder “What’s that?”

Amazing 👏 as an Italian I have a huge respect for the Brits who owned an Italian car or motorbike... Another cool car meeting is the Horsham Piazza Italia!🤗🇮🇹 Ciao!

Side impact crash resistance comparable to that of a laundry basket, perhaps?

@@kennethjackson7574 hahaha!

@Retired Bore Hah - quite right! However, Lancia's own English language promotional advertising referred to it as the "upsilon ten" :) unless you actually visited a dealer where everybody referred to it as a 'wy ten'. I have had four of these marvellous cars: a 1987 Y10 FIRE 1.0L, a 1988 Y10 Touring 1.1L, a 1988 Y10 1.1 LX i.e. and a 1990 Y10 1.3 GTie.

And it's Lantshya, not lansia

Peugeot certainly did. Existed a fair while before the motor car.

Peugeot started with salt and pepper grinders and you can still get them today if you have a few hundred pounds spare. In general, everything started in a bicycle workshop. If you can make a bike you can make a car or a plane. The Wright brothers are the classic example but they patented everything and this held back the U.S. aeroplane business for a very long time, hence European plane makers were the innovators until war came along. Reliant is a name you need to add to your list. They called it Reliant because they bought everything from Raleigh and it was easy to change the branding and tooling to 'Reliant'. BSA - British Small Arms - also play in the British bikes to anything else story. If you can't afford to restore a classic car, restore a classic Peugeot bicycle from the 1980's. They pioneered an internal brazing technique that resulted in beautiful frames. Every one is a classic and just needs period correct NOS European parts from Weinmann, Rigida, Sachs Huret et al.

They did announce last year that Bianchi were going to start to manufacture bikes in Italy again……….

@@simonhodgetts6530 Well, Italy has got no gas. So no carbon fibre. However, it could be like SiDi 'made in Italy' shoes where they stick the sole to the upper, put it in a box and slap on the label. With a bike, for it to be 'made' it is just final assembly. The frame is just a component. A "Bianchi" can be built in Italy from components from elsewhere, all sent to Italy. There is good reason to do this as the bike shops do the real assembly anyway, and, they can better match supply and demand with shorter time delays. Aluminium frames must be gone by now, never to be made in The West ever again. China has the jump on mass producing carbon fibre to a quality standard suited to the marketplace but they are getting expensive since it is a premium product from China, not cheap junk unless you pay for that 'quality' standard. We will see, but people buy cars that are 'British' but built by Germans in Eastern Europe. Or built by Chinese people in China. Right now Bentley is doing a different market to MG, Bianchi want to be following the 'Bentley' not 'MG' business model to go premium.

Yes, they were officially sold here.

Grazie!

@@HubNut Prego!😂🤌🏻😎

You could get away with upchanges if you were slow, especially third and fourth.