| Production | 1993–1999 |
|---|---|
| Assembly | Pomigliano d'Arco, Naples |
| Body style | 3 and 5-door hatchback |
| Layout | FF layout |
| Platform | Fiat Type Two (Tipo Due) platform |
| Transmission | 5-speed manual 3-speed automatic |
| Wheelbase | 2,540 mm (100 in) |
| Length | 4,011 mm (157.9 in) |
| Width | 1,759 mm (69.3 in) |
| Height | 1,430 mm (56 in) |
| Curb weight | 1130-1330 kg (2491-2932 lb) |
| Related | Fiat Tipo Fiat Tempra Fiat Coupé Lancia Dedra Alfa Romeo 145 Alfa Romeo 146 Alfa Romeo 155 |
| Designer(s) | I.DE.A Institute's Ercole Spada |
The successor to the original Delta, the 'Nuova Delta', was introduced in 1993 based on the Fiat Tipo platform. The Nuova Delta was targeted at customers more interested in comfort and convenience than overall performance and power.
The Nuova Delta was offered with engine versions up to 193 PS (142 kW; 190 hp), but without four-wheel drive. Until 1995 only five-door hatchback body styles was offered, when the three-door was introduced under the name HPE. In 1996 two 1.8-litre engines were introduced (one with variable valve timing) and the naturally aspirated 2.0 was discontinued.
The Delta was dropped from Lancia's lineup in 1999, with no immediate successor. The Dedra was axed at the same time and was replaced by the Lybra, which was not offered with a hatchback body style.
Read more about this topic: Lancia Delta
Famous quotes containing the word generation:
“Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain and restless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn’t matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)
“If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.”
—Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)