Unlike the model it replaces - and the Cinque Cento, on which it is based - the Y is a five-door model, but included in a compact package, with hidden rear door handles. Pitched as a premium offering more than 500, the larger is Y A focus on refinement, with such a cabin touches as LED lighting in the instrument panel, a special sound-absorbing headliner, a large sun terrace and a variety of electronic systems - from the "magic Parking with Blue & Me and TomTom Live connectivity - available features you expect to find in a flagship luxury sedan.
Lancia also highlights the adaptability of the new Ypsilon, with 17 outside shades (including four two-color combinations), three interior trim levels (Silver, Gold and Platinum), six different fillings and three kinds of alloys. In addition, there are four engines in the range of launch: a 1.2-liter engine with 69 hp, 85hp with the 900cc TwinAir, a 95hp 1.3-liter Multijet turbo diesel and a flex-fuel 1.2-liter LPG engine, available with manual or semi-automatic transmissions.
The Y will be sold on the European continent as a Lancia, but fascinating, it will carry Chrysler badges and grillework when it crossed the English Channel, around the British Isles. Enter a suitable springboard for Chrysler in North America and the lineup? We have to wait and see, but Lancia also got a number of rebadged Chrysler's accession to the Ypsilon in Geneva. Follow the jump for the press release, check out the first crop of images in the gallery below and watch this space for more. Thank you to everyone for the tips!
Chrysler, the automaker to the top of the minivan movement in the 1980s, is seriously thinking about his family tractor business. As we reported earlier, the Chrysler is scrapping one of the two twins minivan by 2013, making room for a small micro-van within the next few years to start - a vehicle that compete with the likes of the Ford C-Max and Mazda5 . Now, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, reports confirmed that a hybrid version of the company's next-generation minivan on the way, should be up to 2013 debut.
Which is for use in hybrid minivans use the same drive technology, we shall see in the gasoline-electric version of the Chrysler 300 sedan, will also be set to start in 2013 planned the drive train. The factory, where both the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan are built today - The new van will be built at the automobile manufacturer Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada.
We have seen that show pairing effectively already by the appointment of Lancia CEO Olivier Francois and the toe-in-the-water demonstration of a Chrysler emblem Lancia Delta at last year's Detroit, but it looks like things are finally speaking next Motor Show in Geneva materialize.
There, according to the latest reports from Europe, the Fiat / Lancia Chrysler alliance unveil a-fied version of the new Chrysler 200th The model is expected to last Flavia nameplate in 1975 to revive and get only seen a few changes in the shape of a new grille (natch), Euro-spec bumper and the possible mechanical additions to a manual transmission and diesel engine.
Headline although the development, it is likely that only one of several new debuts are - some Chrysler-based, others not - that Lancia has planned for the Swiss Expo. A Chrysler 300 flagship sedan based on supposedly is in the cards, as could a Lancia version of the Chrysler Town & Country minivans are (as a possible replacement for the Phedra, which was produced jointly by Fiat and PSA). Finally, it is expected Lancia Ypsilon the new hatchback, which could reveal its way Stateside as Chrysler. Now we just need a Pentastar-badged version of the New Stratos and we will all be set.
