STELLANTIS owned Lancia says its freshly unveiled third technology Ypsilon hatch will profit from the group’s electrified e-CMP structure in delivering a extra expressive design enabling it to realize extra gross sales throughout potential markets.
Penned collaboratively between Lancia and Cassina design studios, the Ypsilon is the model’s first new automotive in 13 years and boasts an upscale cabin and sporty sheet steel the Italian model says will assist it to face out in a crowded phase.
Additional, Lancia believes the Ypsilon’s appears to be like – and electrified driveline know-how – will assist push into markets exterior of Italy, at present its solely market. They embody the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Spain earlier than the top of this yr then Germany in 2025.
“With the brand new Lancia Ypsilon, the primary automotive of the brand new period of the model, we’re relaunching, ranging from Italy,” defined Lancia CEO Luca Napolitano.
“Its design is impressed by the model’s superb previous, now interpreted in a contemporary means. The mannequin represents the final word expression of onboard consolation and design, options category-leading know-how and connectivity but at all times easy and intuitive, in excellent Lancia fashion.”
The Ypsilon will provide battery electrical (BEV) and mild-hybrid petrol (MHEV) drivelines and options what Mr Napolitano refers to as a Lancia Residing Room inside replete with a multifunctional espresso desk that enables occupants to cost their smartphones.
Initially, the Ypsilon can be bought because the Edizione Limitata Cassina with simply 1906 items to be produced, the quantity representing the yr the model was based (1906). The launch version can be priced from €39,500 ($A65,330) earlier than incentives are utilized.
The Ypsilon is the primary automobile from Stellantis to be geared up with its new SALA (Sound Air Mild Augmentation) system that utilises a customisable, widget-based infotainment array that additionally serves as a management panel for Sound (audio), Air (local weather management) and Mild (inside and exterior lighting).
As acquainted in lots of phase opponents, the mannequin makes use of twin 10.25-inch screens for its infotainment and instrumentation shows.
The extra modern design of the Ypsilon – which beforehand appeared as a quite ungainly mannequin in its home market – is geared toward “engaging, extra trendy and technologically pushed purchaser who’s attentive to environmental points and the newest traits.”
Lancia says the Ypsilon displays the utmost consideration to each stylistic element, from the choice of the supplies to the selection of colors. Blue is used as the long-lasting hue of Lancia custom, showing each contained in the automotive and out.
A smooth blue velvet in 100 per cent recycled yarn envelops the seats with “cannelloni” sample and double stitching, with the identical color echoed within the accents on the door panels and dashboard creating a chic and coordinated inside house.
Lancia blue additionally options within the mannequin’s distinctive, elegant, and modern bodywork. It’s mentioned to mix in with the black of the alloy wheels and their darkish dressing, leading to a refined and uniform visible impression, with no chrome plating.
In true Italian fashion, the bodywork of the Ypsilon combines the smooth, elegant, and sensual shapes of earlier fashions – together with the Aurelia and Flaminia – mixed with “essentially the most trendy expressions of radicalism”, and by the language of structure, furnishings, and trend.
A reference to the model’s extra sporting previous fashions (assume Stratos) is seen clearly within the automotive’s rear, which options the long-lasting spherical LED lights.
Sharing its structure with equally sized Opel (Corsa-e) and Peugeot (e-208) fashions, the Ypsilon is 243mm longer than the present mannequin and gives Stage 2 autonomous driving help as customary for the primary time.
In battery electrical kind, it encompasses a 115kW and 260Nm single electrical motor and 51kWh battery that’s mentioned to ship a driving vary of as much as 403km (WLTP). The battery could also be charged from 20 to 80 per cent in as little as 24 minutes, with 100km of vary capable of be added in simply 10 minutes.
Vitality consumption is rated as little as 14.3kWh per 100km.
Forty-eight-volt MHEV variations will mix a 75kW and 230Nm 1.2-litre petrol engine with a dual-clutch transmission and 21kW/55Nm electrical motor and 0.9kWh battery for a mixed gasoline consumption determine of 4.6 litres per 100km.
Lancia has said beforehand that it’s going to transfer to grow to be an all-electric model by as early as 2026. It’ll subsequent launch the mid-sized Gamma in 2026, adopted by the compact Delta in 2028.
The Italian model has no present plans to supply its automobiles within the Australian market. Lancia final bought its Beta vary right here in 1985, ending a 24-year run for a marque than bought fashions together with the Flavia, Flaminia, and Fulvia.
