Lancia Fulva Concept Based Aurelia on the Horizon?

Lancia Fulva Concept

5-year old project could be revived

By Clinton Deacon
June 5, 2008 6:00 PM
Filed Under: Concept Car, European, Lancia

At the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show, Lancia presented the Fulvia Coupe Concept (pictured), but as you will already know that is as far as the project ever got due to the ageing Punto Mk2 platform it was based on coupled with the insecure position of the Fiat Group at the time. Since then the Fiat group has built itself back up to become one of the most secure automakers in the world and this secure position allows the Fulvia project to be revived.

If the sources are correct, the reborn project could see the production version's worldwide debut at the Paris Motor Show this September although a Geneva debut next year is more likely, the new model will come with a folding hard-top convertible and rumours flying around say it coule be labelled as "Aurelia".

The Alfa Romeo MiTo will provide the base for the new model although we are told the chassis will come from the current generation Punto. A cleaner design has been achieved with the expensive re-engineering of the A-pillar and it is set to look quite different from this 5-rear old concept.

Source: autocar

Comments

racsozelev
June 5, 2008 7:44 PM
beautiful and classy as only lancia can do. congratulations to them. hope it goes into production....

Kepe
June 5, 2008 9:02 PM
The exterior is hideous, but the interior looks fine. What's up with the name, though? Lancia Vulva...

alessandro
June 6, 2008 12:53 PM
no, FULVIA. in LATIN LANGUAGE means FULVUS beige or lifgt redish-brown color.

mps
June 5, 2008 9:55 PM
From what I can see, it's Fulvia.

alessandro
June 6, 2008 1:02 PM
Aurelia for replacement of current is stupidly flat in taste.

v6s_stink
June 6, 2008 4:27 PM
I like this a lot. It would be different than the many "me too" cars on the road. It is a great modern rendention of the classic, upright seating, European sport coupes of the 60's and 70's. I really don't know what they called this class east of the Atlantic. I have always liked them, though, and wished that more would have been exported to the USA.

Nissan did a really nice concept of a car like this a few years ago. I'd like a small coupe that doesn't make me feel like I am in an enclosed go-kart (when I want zoom-zoom I ride a motorcycle).

alessandro
June 6, 2008 5:03 PM
We call this class a "Coupe" really, just like that, no classification further, and yet, probably were these cars, I mean Fulvia like coupes the most desireable car type in Westtern Europe, so splendedly presented in French or Italian Films, or British from 1950-s.

alessandro
June 6, 2008 5:09 PM
I'm really happy to find that question of V6_Stink. My cars true-love are these coupes.

v6s_stink
June 6, 2008 6:12 PM
The films were about the only context of these coupes in the US. I can't think of any real substantial market attempts in the huge gap between British roadsters and American muscle cars. The Nissan concept was the Foria in 2005. The name seems like a nod to classic Lancias.

Companies are all looking for "white space" in the market. Maybe this is it, instead of 8 more types of wierd cross-overs with still pathetic fuel economy.

alessandro
June 6, 2008 8:10 PM
It is strange, V6s_stink, same was in Soviet Union. All they knew was from Italian and Frech films. Now on thisis a white space in market. You are right. The revival that part of automobile culture seems to be very right thing to do. Ahaa, in Mercedes (it is gossip so far described in veri this site) is growing an idea to turn the A-class and B-class to little sporty RWD-s. It mean coupes too and Alfa is about coming back to US market and with Brera think. And yet it is not so far away that Citroen and is coming too. You have an interesting time in car market future.

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