Lancia is again! Well, not in the best way we have been hoping for – with a rally-inspired Delta Integrale successor – however nonetheless, the brand new Ypsilon is huge information contemplating it’s the model’s first new product since 2011. It is meant to debut subsequent month, however we will already take a more in-depth take a look at its design.
The video you see right here comes courtesy of the Masera Facebook web page and exhibits the supermini utterly undisguised. It is being filmed for what is probably going a promo video by an Alfa Romeo Stelvio digicam automotive. The footage isn’t excellent however we get to see the brand new Ypsilon from all angles.
There are some apparent influences from the Pu-Ra HPE concept however one of the best half is that we additionally see inspiration from the 037 and Stratos. Overall, it’s a sharp-looking metropolis automotive with a particular entrance finish, although it is usually price mentioning that there are sturdy resemblances with different Stellantis merchandise. This shouldn’t actually come as a shock contemplating the shared underpinnings between Lancia, Peugeot, Citroen, and Opel. As a end result, the physique proportions of the brand new Ypsilon look so much just like the Opel Corsa and Peugeot 208.
From what we all know to date, the brand new hatchback from Italy might be bought with hybrid and totally electrical powertrains. Looking at what the Corsa and 208 have to supply, the EV model will most definitely be geared up with a 52-kilowatt-hour battery pack and a single electrical motor on the entrance axle with a peak output of 156 horsepower. This will make the brand new Ypsilon by far probably the most highly effective technology of the mannequin in its historical past because the mannequin that’s nonetheless accessible in Italy has a 70-hp hybridized three-cylinder engine.
Speaking of the present technology Ypsilon, it was launched in 2011 and facelifted a number of instances over time. Most just lately, it obtained minimal visual tweaks approximately a year ago.