WTF Happened to Lancia? 

In Motorsport Lancia's partnership with Martini Racing is absolutely golden.

To be fair, the phrase "Italy ran through Prime Ministers like Mustangs do people" could apply to literally any period in modern Italian history

“Once the World Cup ended” Josh: *shows a picture of the war*

The Delta s4 was a group B car, whose accident with Toivonen driving in the Tour de Corse caused the death of the group B regulation. The Delta HF integrale was the group A car that was so dominant in the late 80s and early 90s.

I'll always remember Lancia primarily for the fact that the Delta Integrale was one of two WRC cars chosen to be in the greatest arcade racer ever, Sega Rally Championship 1995.

Old Top Gear was a golden era.

"Lancias only came in 2 colours. Red and rust"

The s4 was a group B rally car not a group A. It was released in 1985 mid season and it was the last group B Lancia. In 1987 the delta integrale was released. So the integrale was it's first and only group A car.

"Drivers such as Walter Rörhl" *Shows the picture of Markku Alen

“Sometimes my genius is almost frightening”- Jeremy Clarkson

Praise josh for correctly pronouncing lancia and most other italian names

"I'm Josh Revell and this is everything you need to know to get UP TO SPEED with Lancia"

7:24 that's still a group b car. Hell, lancia didn't even use the S4 for group a. They used an integrale.

Side note: The Lancia Delta S4 was the twin charged group B monster. It was the HF 4WD that was the dominant Group A variant of the car. Love Lancia, best car make ever.

A moment of silence for anyone who doesn't know old Top Gear

Lancia and Lotus. The L's greatest exercise in squandering greatness.

Few seem to remember their being "The maker of finest automobiles in the world" back in 50s and 60s

The Delta S4 was gone after 1986 as it was a Group B car. In was the Integrale that took over 1987 on. You show an S4 until you say 1990 which is when you start showing the Integrale. The S4 only ran in part of 85 and 1986.

How to correctly pronounce Lancia: You have to say: “Lancha”

Josh Revell be like: "Lancia delta s4 is a group B car? Wololo wololo There, now is a group A car"

"The World Cup" is the greatest descriptor of WWII I've ever heard.

Ypsilon is how "Y" is pronounced in Greek. (And many other languages) Keeping in tradition with naming cars using Greek alphabet. Alpha Beta Gama Delta Theta Ypsilon Etc. 😀

The fact that Lancia's short lived return to the UK came with Chrysler badging, because somehow Chrysler was less disrespected here than Lancia, broke my heart.

6:59 Group B was never going to live past 1986, the class was planned to be replacement by Group S which was Group B but with a 300HP limit and a *lot* of makes already had cars nearing completion but Toivonen fatal crash scrapped Group S.

A red 037 Stradale, with THAT rear spoiler, is one of my all-time dream cars!

I really do hope that Stellantis manages to bring the name of Lancia back to the masses like it should be

Nice video. Did you know the 037 was the last rear wheel drive car to win the WRC? I'm surprised you didn't mention that part of the reason Grp B was banned was due to Toivonen and Cresto's fatal crash in the Delta S4 in Corsica - they were far too powerful cars.

Beautiful! Also, Josh, it's Ip-sil-on And really FIAT treated Lancia as a redheaded stepchild(even before the downshift to just the Ypsilon they treated it as badge-engineered hell considering their previous flagship model was a damn rebadged Chrysler 300C!)

I love that you talk about Top Gear in past tense, even though it's still going. It really died when the 3 left though

Dude fact check maybe next time?! The S4 was the Group B that was cancelled after 1986. The HF, HF Integrale 8V, HF Integrale 16V, Integrale Evo and Integrale Evo II were the Deltas that dominated from 87 till 92.

These days I'm deep into WRC history and this video came exactly at the right time. I also remember that Top Gear segment. It was series-long actually cause the fans voted about the company who made the most great cars. It had to be back in 05-06 I think. They too wished Lancia came back.

lancia is one of my favourite brands they were sick

Genius video, from a hardcore WRC fan You have got some fact errors Josh

Well, you're kinda wrong. The Delta S4 was a rally car developed for Group B regulations for 1986 WRC season, to try and fight the mighty Peugeot 205 T16 which won manufacturers title in 85. In 1986 tho a Portuguese driver crashed into a group of people at Rally Portugal killing I think like 3 people and in Rally Corsica one of the biggest talents of that era - Henri Toivonen driving the Delta S4 went off the road and died with his co-driver, that led to Balstre and the FIA banning the Group B and bringing existing Group A regulations to the top. Thus in 1987 Lancia came in with Delta Integrale and basically they had the best car developed which blow everyone else in the field and won manufacturers championship from 87 to 92.

Delta S4 is the group B beast by Lancia. Which was banned in 1986 along every other group B car. Their first group A car was called Delta HF 4WD. Followed by various verisions of Delta Integrales.

6:56 Umm wasn't the Delta S4 for Group B? Lancia's Group A entry was with the Delta Integrale...

“Once the World cup ended” Killed me 😂

@ 6:40 that's Markku Alén

Josh dude i really like your stuff and i think its great your covering Lancia but this video needs a fact check, the delta s4 is the group b car that replaced the 037 for 85 and 86. group b was cancelled in 86 after a horrific accident in an s4. the delta s4 shares nothing with the later deltas being a homologation special in every way not a suoped up version of the normal car. sorry if i'm being a minus but i think its kind of important. i hope you have a good day. and best of luck.

I like this!! Not just history and random jokes about racing drivers, but cars themselves now!! The channel has come a long way, and it's so great to see ^^. Keep it up Josh

That driver in the video was Markku Alén not walter röhrl. Alén was also a rally driver for lancia.

I really enjoyed this video. I had no idea about Lancia’s history. You should do more videos on auto history!! 🏎

mega love for your content bra ...... and all the way from Eswatini i say keep it up!!!

Thanks enjoyed that . Like so many my favourite rally cars . It would be awesome to see them return in some form .

This is the first time that I heard a non italian speaker content creator say "lancia" in the correct way thanks! From all Italian speaker

The actual Ypsilon is the Lancia Ypsilon of 12 years ago but with some new details in the interiors or in the look and of course the FIAT 500 engines. It sells a lot beacuse is good in town and because italian car culture is dead with the 2008 crisis where italian governement decided to increase the numeber and price cars taxes (that's why in Italy cars costs more of the cars in many european states or othe states in the world) sports cars and luxury cars were penalizated and many people stopped buying new cars. FIAT tried to bring back Lancia as a european Chrysler seller failing (they renamend the 300 as Thema, the Thema was a luxury sedan with a Ferrari engine), if someone want to task me why FIAT did that.the answer os that FIAT always has bad commercial idea.

Great vid. Thanks Josh 😁

yes YES i was waiting for top gear and you opened with it and now my day is made

Lancia, Mitsubishi, and Saab’s tragic downfalls are heartbreaking to diehard auto fans

Josh, thanks for the video, I've loved Lancia ever since I saw a Stratos at the LA international auto show in the early 70s. From an old guy in AZ usa.

What a great video loved this!

"when the world cup was over" Oh you're a dark little anzac aint ya xD

Jesus man, your video quality has skyrocketed since I started watching you, keep it going.

Cheap car challenge are some of the best bits of TV.

Don't forget about a very deep sportscar effort as well. The LC2 and the Monte Carlo Gr5 cars where just as amazing in their own right.

I love Lancia and I really hope the new owners bring them back from just making the Ypsilon. This was a pretty awesome video, Josh! Good job!

Love the giggles and the facts. Arigato Josh.

You pronounced Lancia correctly. My father’s first job was a tool and die maker for Lancia; he worked there for 11 years before immigrating to Canada to be a tool & die maker for Ford. You pronouncing Lancia correctly means a lot to me. Thank you.

Really nice topic not about a driver but a brand, i liked it. Should you do this again, i would love to see it about Opel, another car maker that once stood on the top steps.

Great video man, would love a bit more rally if it's cool stories

Thank you for this insight: the fact that you know more about Lancia's racing pedigree than actual Italians like myself (yes, I admit it 😅) speaks volumes about your passion for motor sports! 🙏🇮🇹

Holy crap, been waiting for this for a long time.

They never won with the Delta S4 they won with the delta Integrale, Delta S4 was a Group B car

The S4 only competed in the ‘86 season to replace the 037 model that was, as correctly pointed out, outdated against Peugeot and Audi. Starting in 1987 with the ban of Group B, the Delta model was used instead. And it proved to be a winner. Great video.

awesome video, would be great if Lancia could go back to rallying. A fun Lancia related fact is that Inspector Morse drove one in the books despite being more famous for driving red MK2 Jaguar in the TV films

Uploaded right after i saw the kimera at goodwood

The ‘83 WRC season is one of the best motorsports stories of all time! Looking forward to the video

thank you for this video!

0:32 finally! That’s the correct pronunciation, thank you! 👍🏻

You make such good videos ❤️

That rusty soviet steel did a real number on the Italian car industry.

YES CAR CONTENT LETS GO JOSH

Dear Josh great ,great work BUUUT the Delta S4 was the replacement for the 037 in Group B after 1984 , the S4 raced in the 1985 and 86 seasons and in the latter a fatal accident occured to the Delta S4 driven By Henri Toivonen with Sergio Cresto at the Tour de Corse Rally stage , Balestre decided to cut off Group B in favor of Group A. So Lancia entered the Delta 4wd , then all the later models that ended with the almighty Delta Integrale of the early 90s ! :)

Great video

9:05 Not only is rally a part of Lancia's identity, Lancia is also part of rally's identity. To see them return would be incredible and I hope to see it happen some day.

One slight mistake that I thought I should mention was that the Delta S4 ran on the RAC rally in 1985 and 1986 and then Group A took over from Group B in 87' but apart from that a brilliant video as usual Josh!

My dad asks this as he uploaded this I am litteraly amazed!

Awsome video pls more stuff like this

i want more of these type of videos, luckily many car companies have gone bust in the last 50 years

Do more rally please rally and f1 are my two favorite automotive sports and you make really good videos so I have no doubt that

As an italian, I'm crying spaghetti... more or less since FIAT bought, you know, something like every car manufacturer in Italy. So, I started crying far too soon before even been born. Damn you, FIAT.

Brilliant video. A+++++

TG's efforts to explain about Saab also hits deep. Knowing someone who has a Saab 9-3 Viggin and prior to that a gen 1 900, Saabs were a riot of a little car. Sad to see them gone right now and suffering the same fate as Lancia where overengineering things killed themselves.

Lancia delta is our family car and so i feel somewhat honoured wity this video

Your deserve so many more subs

One of my buddies drives a Lancia Delta in matte black. And honestly, it's a sexy car and drives very nice.

Would love more car videos like this

I always love how Clarkson, Hammond and May do a history on either famous car manufactures, racing rivalries or even racing drivers (Jim Clark or Ayrton Senna). They are so good to watch.

Gotta love Jeremy, Hammond, and May those trio are legendary in the automobile community. Also while Lancia is down on the very bottom they still left behind a history with them

F1 now the history of a car brand

This was great!, but I'm still waiting for ranking of 1990s Drivers!

I like how you mentioned the old top gear 😄

I swear Josh makes the most funniest videos on RU-vid 😆

Lovely video, Josh! Some stuff that you got wrong about "Warthog" Ascari's demise: He died riding a Ferrari 750 Monza Sporstcar, not a D50. You might got confused with the crash he had during the Monaco GP, where he went to the bottom of the Mediterrenian Sea with his car! Three days later, he was in Monza and got his fatal crash. In fact, he wasn't suppose to be there. They thought he would rest after that crash, but as he only suffered some bruises, he was in Monza watching Eugenio Castelotti driving that car. At lunchtime, he asked Ferrari to let him driving the car, he spun out and the car fell over him. The Variante Ascari was named, not only at his honor, but because it's the place of his fatal crash.

I have Lancia Ypsilon 2005 and it is unbelivable how comfy it is for a city car...

Amazing video. My family actually owns a Lancia Kappa from the 90s and we love it. The suspension is mediocre, it's rusty and it has a german engine, but it's awesome.

yo josh, this vids good

@Josh Revell Congratulazioni ed ottimo lavoro, Josh! It's always a grand thing for us Italians to hear about our car-makers from an "outside" perspective. Allow me to make some notes, though... 0:33 - Close, but no cigar, mate. Better than the common English pronounciation, though. For further reference, it's "Lan-chah": imagine saying "Lance Stroll" and changing it in the middle of the first name. Us Italians will treat you to a proper full course if you do remember :) 3:18 - Jano is pronounced "Ee-ah-no". He was also the father of some of Ferrari's best cars too. 4:17 - Ascari didn't die driving a D50, but test-driving a Ferrari 750 Monza on the same track. Incidentally, the car was officially of his friend Eugenio Castellotti (official Ferrari driver in the Gran Turismo races). Alberto died at 36 years of age, just like his father Antonio did in 1925, in the same way too. This, though, wasn't the death knell for Lancia's ambitions: that came from the banks completely closing the faucets on the whole F1 thing. Gianni Lancia was drowning in debt, both Company-wise and personally, to keep the brand from dying. 4:45 - That's only partially true: FIAT's stake in Lancia began at the 1955 Belgian GP, when Castellotti paid by his own pocket to race there with Lancia: the Factory was completely shut down because of debts and bankruptcy seemed certain, with hundreds of people facing furlough or layoff. Lancia, at the time, had multiple divisions: Car manufacturing, Trucks and public transport (buses, mainly), Military equipment (tanks) and racing. Since the Italian Government had multiple stakes in the company, it orchestrated a buyout along with FIAT, Ferrari (which also got in because the 555 was shit compared to the W196s and was starting to rake in debts to fix it), the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (a State fund) and the Piacenti family. Piacenti got the ownership and the majority share, wile FIAT got 15% of Lancia and 10% of Ferrari, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti took 39% of Lancia to avoid layoffs in the company (and to not let the State contracts to escape to other companies), while Ferrari took ALL the Lancia's F1 stuff: mechanics, designers, engineers (yes, Jano too, who rejoined with Enzo Ferrari after a hiatus going back to the late '30s), machinery and all but one Lancia D50 car. That single car was kept by Gianni Lancia as a souvenir of his until he died and now it's one of the only two D50s still existing.

Damn I would love to see Josh make some more rally stuff...

I would love you to rank the top 10 best top gear episodes