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Curbside Classic: 2007 Lancia Thesis – PhD In Deadly Sin

Finally found one! Had to go all the way to bloody Japan, but there it is, in front of me, glaring at me with its sad eyes. I hadn’t seen one in probably ten years, but then that’s how long I’ve been out of Europe. Some call this the last Lancia and in many ways, it is. It was also a major bomb that precipitated the marque’s downfall. A true blue Deadly Sin – perfect CC fodder.

It wasn’t possible to get a rear end shot of the Thesis, so here’s a period pic (and a pretty colour!)

It was already evident, by the late ‘90s, that Lancia’s future appeared a lot darker than its past. Ever since Fiat had taken the firm over in 1969, the marque’s essence seemed to have gradually evaporated. Lancias, once known for their workmanship and engineering prowess, were now known for their glitches and rampant rust. Fiat decided to pair Lancia and Autobianchi together, muddying the marque’s image by associating it with city cars. The larger Lancias of the ‘80s and ‘90s were hit-and-miss, sometimes bland and often badge-engineered versions of cheaper Fiats and more interesting Alfa Romeos, always playing second fiddle to someone else.

Yet the Lancia shield still had mystique. Within the Fiat group, some saw how wasteful the conglomerate had been with the marque and sought to revive it. After all, this was the peak retro era. VW were recreating the Beetle as a chic FWD quasi-luxury car, so anything must have seemed possible. Mike Robinson, head of Fiat Centro Stile’s Lancia office, had just designed the Lybra (above) , which was about to go into production on the Alfa 156 platform and usher in the look of big Lancias for the next decade – chromed retro grille, round headlamps, conservative three-box shape (albeit with very rounded edges), simple flanks, thin C-pillar, vertical taillamps.

Just as the Lybra was going into production, Lancia surprised the cognoscenti by unveiling the Dialogos at the 1998 Turin Motor Show. This was a clear foreshadowing of the new big Lancia, though it remained a show car. Several features never made it to the final Thesis, such as the swiveling front seats, wood-panelled doors and floors, or the clamshell doors sans B-pillar (an old Lancia tradition) or door handles. The Dialogos was never equipped with an engine, so it was really a pure styling and packaging exercise, but it definitely pointed its sharp grille towards the future of Lancia.

In the year 2000, even before the launch of the Thesis, Lancia made a Thesis-based special for the Vatican. The Lancia Giubileo, a 5.5m long armoured landaulet, reminded most observers of the Dialogos, but this one obviously had an engine (an Alfa 3-litre V6) and generally looked a bit different – the grille was a bit less imposing, the rear end less abrupt. The end of production of the Lancia Kappa, in the summer of 2000, made it even clearer that the time was coming for a new executive Lancia.

The Thesis was finally unveiled at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show, but it took about a year for the cars to actually get to the showrooms. Petrol engine choices included a 2.0 Turbo (185hp) and a 2.4 litre (170hp) 5-cyl., as well as Alfa’s 3-litre (215hp) “Busso” V6, augmented to 3.2 litres and 230hp from 2005. Diesel-wise, the initial proposal was the 2.4 litre JTD 5-cyl. – only good for 150hp, but that was superseded by a 20-valve multijet design that ended up providing 185hp. These drove the front wheels via a either a 6-speed manual or a 5-speed auto.

The Lancia Thesis was never going to have a bespoke engine, of course. And you could be forgiven for thinking the same of the rest of the car, but you’d be wrong. The platform and its sophisticated all-independent multilink suspension, made of aluminium and steel, were all designed and used solely for the Lancia flagship. Fiat invested over €400 million in this titanic enterprise and they were sure it would pay off.

Going by the Kappa’s modest numbers – just over 100,000 units made in eight years – and adding a dollop of optimism, Lancia figured they should be able to shift 13,000 cars per year initially and might need to increase production to 25,000 if sales really took off. After all, the Thesis’ rivals, such as the BMW 5-Series, the Jaguar S-Type or the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, were selling quite briskly in those days. Suffice to say they kind of missed the mark: just under 16,000 Thesis were made from 2002 to 2009. Reality bit, and it bit hard.

So what happened? There are several factors, it seems. One was that the Thesis’ fierce competitors were present in a number of European markets that Lancia had forgone, such as the UK, so Lancia’s flagship was not as widely offered as some. The styling, despite the Italian reputation for elegance and beauty in all things, was not to everyone’s taste either. It seems only the Italians got the point of it – foreign sales were abysmal.

Perhaps a variant or two might have helped, too. Sure, it hardly moved the needle for the Kappa – the K coupé and wagon were for connoisseurs only, in a way – but you never know, sometimes you get luckier with the derivative than the main. It happened before. The sole attempt at a special Thesis was coachbuilder Stola’s limousine, which is not exactly a recipe for volume production. Three limos were made and that was that.

Our feature car, by the way, is a late model Thesis, as evidenced by this “1∞ th ” symbol on the B-pillar. This series was originally launched as a limited edition in 2006 for the 100 th anniversary of Lancia and as a way to peddle the latest amelioration of the Thesis, i.e. the 185hp Diesel coupled with the 5-speed sequential autobox. The only available colours were black and gray – joyful hues perfectly suited to celebrate a birthday.

Above: 1∞th edition (2006) interior; below: 2002 Emblema trim dash

Actually, the fun was all inside. I did not manage to take a photo of our feature car, but here’s what it should look like in these. The red leather coupled with the deletion of the wood veneer gives this interior a bit of a zing that might not be present in the “regular” Thesis.

For whatever reason, the leather in the Thesis I caught was black. The package also included model-specific 18’’ alloys and was available until the end of production, in 2009. It seems the last cars made in 2008-09 were all Diesels, probably because that’s what the Italian markets craved.

I’m guessing that this Thesis might be a 2007 model because I found one for sale in Japan on the web – just the one, which is saying something! – wearing the same colour and from this vintage, but with a petrol engine and no 1∞th package. It’s a shame so few of these were imported here: given how retro-obsessed Japanese car-buyers can be, the Thesis could have made a real splash here if Lancia had given it a go. But I guess this all took place before Fiat renewed their efforts at conquering Japan, after the formation of FCA: Jeeps, Fiat 500s, Maseratis and Alfas are pretty common in Tokyo traffic. Lancias are definitely not, though I have seen older ones on occasion.

As we all know, the death knell of Lancia in general and of the Thesis in particular was the aforementioned Chrysler deal. Fiat found themselves with a surfeit of platforms and bodies to amortize, so they just slapped Lancia shields on various Chryslers. For good measure, FCA also did the opposite, i.e. rebadging Lancia Ypsilons as Chryslers, for certain markets.

Whatever brand equity was still present in the Lancia name evaporated by the early 2010s. Which leaves us with the Thesis as the last big Lancia worthy of the name, a gloriously wasteful and, in the metal, not inelegant executive saloon — in the best and worst tradition of its storied maker, may it rest in peace (is it dead yet?).

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Always loved the front and rear end on these cars – shame about the overall proportions though. if they could have just gone a bit more jag XJ on the proportions it could have been a real stunner, and less like a rover 75 with a fancy face on it.

Very nice, specially the ones with with the V6 engines. These are very underrated, uniquely styled cars and personally I have never understood why they sold as badly as they did. I’m seriously considering picking one up. A good, low mileage Thesis can be had here for next to nothing and it’s a bona fide future classic.

Looks very similar to a Kia Amanti

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The headlight shape – subtly imitating the grill – has unfortunate echoes of the Docker Daimlers….

That’s true!

Yes, the Thesis must have inspired its Korean cousin… the stubbier, uglier Kia Amanti.

You would almost be tempted to buy this for the interior alone, but then, that front end….yuck. Even the engine choices sound interesting and with an available 6 speed manual transmission, what a car.

Agree. That front end kills it for me.

They got the proportioning right on the Dialogos; what a shame the Thesis didn’t look more like that. Or the Papal Giubileo.

But then, would it have mattered what the car looked like? Did people trust the Lancia brand any more?

If only it had rwd proportions, and maybe weren’t quite as tall. More like an Acura Legend.

An unfortunately styled but interesting car nonetheless, at least it can’t be accused of just blending in with everything else. That gray color with red leather? Yes, that’s a winner. Or even the tan or perhaps a shade darker like the shade Ferrari seems to prefer works too. Black interior seems a waste though, so no loss on you not getting pix of that.

Anyway, all the blather we hear periodically about how Japan is a “closed market” seems to be just that, you’ve demonstrated yet again that even when it comes to fairly late model vehicles, Japan seems to be extremely accommodating and its buyers seem to seek out interesting models from the world over, even some American ones such as Jeeps. Just not large pickups or other stuff that the US otherwise seems to specialize in.

A nicely done 1/43 scale promotional model of the Thesis ended up in my collection after a short trip by my wife to Italy. Of course I’d never seen a real one in my part of the American west so an odd, four door sedan Lancia does stand out a bit among models of more common subjects on an office shelf. I’m glad I have the model.

It does rather look like a bit like a conventional sedan done up by one of the Japanese retro houses.

I remember well when it came out. I liked it, for being refreshingly different. I suspect it may well have been influenced by the Rover 75, although I’m not sure if the timelines would have allowed that. It must have been in the air at the time. Sleek retro.

The styling of the Rover 75 was a development of the ideas in the earlier (1993) 600, especially if looking at Richard Woolley’s concept sketches. By coincidence that has numberplates with ‘Thesix Hundred’ on.

I think it’s actually a shame the Lancia didn’t follow the Dialogos concept more closely for the Thesis; definitely more distinctive, especially the treatment of the flanks and they way the waistline resolves at the rear. Even that rear pillar works with the other shapes.

I had actually seen a Thesis once, in 2014, parked at the Serbian Embassy in Washington, DC. I found it rather odd looking in person, and at first didn’t have the foggiest idea what it was. I haven’t thought about the Thesis much since then, so it’s good to read about its full story here. I will say this: That interior is awfully nice-looking.

Paul’s right. Especially from the side it is a conventional-looking generic sedan. The rear is trimmed nicely but that front and especially those headlights! It looks like they took the styling of the Lybra, which is itself quite generic looking, and made it different for the sake of making it different. Never mind style to match its intended market…just different. It didn’t take much effort, but by then it seemed that whatever was happening at Lancia was “phoned in.” The next step was rebadging the Chrysler 300, a car with an entirely different personality than what Lancia represented. That wasn’t even phoned in…it was texted.

The last relaunch of the brand Maybach , owned by Mercedes Benz , didn’t get lucky numbers either and the marque was dropped. With all the prejudices for Lancia’s parenthood with Fiat, no prejudice can shadow the evidence that this rare Lancia Thesis is an exquisite piece of art design.

That limo has a Maybach look about it, to me.

I always enjoy your writing – clever and fun. This title is one of many great puns from your hand. Maybe the best. I like the Thesis and other oddballs like the C6. I’d be happy to snag one up now, but honestly I would not have considered one when new – that free-falling depreciation trumps adorable quirkiness.

So glad you found one. These are fascinating and I had no idea they had their own bespoke platform. What a boondoggle.

Love the wheels on this one. This is a modern car that can actually pull off two-tone too.

I have a soft spot for these, even if I accept they’re everyone’s taste. A sort of Rover 95, if you like, with some of the kitsch retro Britishness replaced with a softer more contemporary style. That interior is actually pretty neat to me, and probably more to my taste than the Rover.

But isn’t the last real Lancia the Gamma? Maybe? Only Fiat’s money in that one.

I never understood the front of this car, I once read an article it was supposed to be an hommage to the Aurelia B 20 Coupe but I guess they got very, very drunk. There was one burgundy Thesis around where I live, but I have not seen it around for a long time now. The interiors of these cars are fantastic, in a way that nobody can make such a fine interior like an Italian can with smashing finishing, I like these cars better then a Maserati Quattroporte, the Thesis interior bears an air of understated chique. I drove a Diesel and a petrol, I had to bring these to another dealer for my friend who is a Fiat, Alfa, Lancia dealer, they drive ok, handling is as you expect from an Italian car , the blue dials reminded me of my 75 Alfa Giulia Nuova. Thesis is now slowly getting appreciated, like the C6 from Citroën, prices are going up but these two cars are mainly victims of the way large cars are being offered in Europe today, namely by leasing companies and these companies dominate the market and are in love with the German three, simply for reasons of accounting. And that is probably the main reason why the French and Italian limousines have disappeared, lease companies rule the world!

Seems one was a tad previous with one’s appellation, Dr T, but still now, you’ve got your Thesis and as they say, that’s a better fate than never, so one’s congrats to one and all that, what.

400 million smackers for its own bespokery seems all a bit foolhardy. Presumably the consultants who told them the numbers were ticketty-boo graduated to doing US polling now.

“Not inelegant”, you say. Now of course, I’m not about to suggest you have just effused, but you haven’t exactly nose-wrinkled either, as the combination of snoozy blanderry and startling oddity in the pictures might suggest is necessary. Is it one of those things that is not the same when seen in the real world?

Reminds me of an International Lonestar truck.

An interesting read. I had the good fortune to test drive one of these about ten years ago. It was the petrol V6. Looking back I can´t recall anything about the car that would hint at its poor sales. While I reckon the car could have been a little lower, it is an excellent package for driver and passengers so you can see why it is tall. It drives beautifully – you can waft along if you like but if you want to press on the car handles with aplomb. The two problems with the car are that it was too big and costly – it was up against intensely well-developed rivals in the 5 and the E. And Lancia had a reputation as cars that offered sensitive and feelsome controls so you were involved in the driving. The Thesis was too reserved – ideal as a limousine but not as interesting as cars like the Mondeo Mk2 and Peugeot 406 which had well tuned controls. What Lancia needed was a Mondeo/Passat/406 sized car and not something from the D class. And they needed driver apeal rather than well executed anasthæsia. I think it´s a wonderful car for what it is but it was the wrong product for Lancia.

If the moderators don´t mind, here is a link to my wordy test drive article: https://driventowrite.com/2014/05/12/2002-lancia-thesis-3-0-v6-review/

“A very fine job of making the wrong car” – very nice.

For all the great effort, it seems that every single element misses – the beautiful glove box that holds just a ciggy pack – and in any case should have been used in other combinations across other models (or more coherently combined in the one).

As noted above though, it must make them a killer buy presently. Old BM’s and Mercs aren’t going to be any less trouble-prone or costly by now, and freed of its competitive new-car role, it’s got to be far more interesting than them.

One other thing, I also test drove a Lancia Kappa which preceded the Thesis. Though not as finely made (it´s not bad, and it is comfy and distinctive) it is a very convincing balance of ride and handling. It is also handily sized – spacious inside but not bulky. If you don´t mind the fake wood trim and odd plastics it is in many ways a much more convincing car than the Thesis. It also looks incredibly distinctive despite its restrained looks (you´d never mistake it for anything else).

FCA also did the opposite, i.e. rebadging Lancia Ypsilons as Chryslers, for certain markets.

Especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland where Lancia was forever doomed in the 1980s for the prodigious rust manifestation. So, Lancia never recovered from the bad publicity there.

Living in Germany, it was weird seeing second-generation Chrysler 300 rebadged as Thema Executive (with better looking grille), Chrysler Town and Country as Voyager, and Chrylser 200 as Flavia.

Lancia model range has been dwindled to single model and limited to a single market today: Italy-only Ypsilon based on Fiat 500.

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Thesis, the last true Lancia

14 April 2020

In 2002 with the Thesis, Lancia launched a valid attempt to return once again to the place it rightly deserved in the annuals of the automobile. The endeavour was inaugurated through a new flagship concept that offered a brave and very astute mix of the past and present and encompassed the celebrated legacy of the Turin brand.

The idea first came to light in 1998 at the Turin Motor Show where a concept called Dialogos was revealed, a semi-final prototype of a three-volume sedan with suicide doors and advanced technological components. The Dialogos was warmly received and a large investment was approved to put it into production. Surprisingly, in 2000, a version appeared for Pope John Paul II, which was given the name “Giubileo” (Jubilee).

At its presentation, in 2002, it was clear how Mike Robinson, chief designer at Lancia, wished to combine the stylistic features of the past with more decisive, contemporary touches; the nose that featured a large Lancia radiator grille, the diamond-shaped headlights and the soft fenders were reminiscent of the Aurelia, while at the rear those characteristically thin and innovative LED lights that look like slender fins, recall the Flaminia. The Thesis heralded a new stylistic language that was balanced by the opulent classicism of the interior. A language that was difficult to understand as history would sadly go on to confirm. The Thesis had the difficult task of repositioning the brand and bringing it back to international markets where Lancia had been absent since the early nineties after the Lancia K debacle.

A promise it was unable to fulfil as only 16,000 examples were produced. The rarity that followed, especially for the top-of-the-range versions powered by a 215bhp 3.0 V6 or the 230bhp 3.2 V6, both petrol engines sourced from Alfa Romeo and designed by Giuseppe Busso, makes it a somewhat inexpensive future classic worth betting on.

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It’s time to appreciate the Lancia Thesis

Forgive us, Lancia Thesis, for the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

In the decade since its demise, the Lancia Thesis has been propping up lazy ‘ugly car‘ lists across the internet, deemed worthy of little more than the merest mention in the context of its jaw-droppingly elegant rear lights. The wood enthusiasts in Malvern saw enough beauty in the Thesis to borrow the ‘microbulb’ lights for the Aeromax.

For sure, the Lancia Thesis looks a little weird, certainly in the context of its contemporary German rivals. But looking slightly odd has never hampered Martin Clunes, so why did the world fail to embrace the Thesis?

British buyers didn’t have a choice. The Thesis never made it to these shores, Lancia only returning to the UK under the cover of Chrysler.

It wouldn’t have stood a chance. Faced by the collective might of the 5 Series, E-Class and A6, the elegant Lancia would have been lost beneath a deluge of faeces-related quips.

“The time is ripe for Thesis,” said Lancia in 2001, in a statement unrelated to faecal matter.

The Thesis was borne out of the Dialogos concept of 1998 , a car with swivelling armchairs rather than seats, an absence of door handles, pillar-less entry, suicide rear doors, and an ability to switch between left- and right-hand-drive.

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It allowed Lancia to “conceive the idea of stress-free driving and envisage the passenger compartment as both ideal microclimate and living room,” said the company.

What’s remarkable is how much of the Dialogos styling made it into production. The front and rear are straight outta concept, but Lancia lost its nerve when building the bit in the middle. With the B-pillar in place, door handles in situ, standard rear doors, and Vanden Plas-style chrome strip along the side, the Thesis looked more like a low-rent Korean rental car in profile.

In fairness, the Thesis did a fine job of hiding its size. At 4.88 metres in length, this Italian saloon is knocking on the door of Range Rover territory, but while SUVs are aggressive and crude machines, the Thesis puts on a display of restraint and splendour. This is a car for arriving at ambassadorial receptions, not in the car park of a Premier League football ground.

The Italian Scorpio?

Which is the point of the Lancia Thesis. If you’ve ever seen a Thesis at night, you will have admired the diamond-shaped xenon headlights and the almost surreal beauty of the LED rear lights. There are just two 1cm wide strips: one red and one orange. Pure class.

If the jury is out on the interior styling – did somebody say ‘Italian Ford Scorpio ’? – there’s little to debate when it comes to the cabin. The dials were a welcome nod to the Aurelia and Flaminia, with the instruments set off against a soft blue background. Meanwhile, wood, leather, Alcantara and magnesium combined to create an interior that looked and felt a class above the ‘premium’ execs jostling for position on the Autostrade.

Naturally, you’d want the Alfa-sourced 3.0-litre V6 combined with the Comfortronic transmission for maximum waft, but don’t discount the 2.4-litre five-cylinder for aural pleasure. The 2.0-litre turbo was the quickest to 60 and delivered more torque than the 2.4-litre JTD. A diesel in a Thesis? No thanks.

Lancia spent big bucks on the Thesis, resisting the temptation to base the car on a stretched Alfa Romeo 166 platform. The result was a car that rode as well as any luxury car, helped in no small part by the so-called ‘Skyhook’ semi-active damping system. It used sensors to select the optimum damping force required by each shock absorber, to deliver a soft and controlled ride.

Poltrona Frau soft leather was an option, with heated front seats standard on the top-spec models. Tick the right box and your Thesis could leave the back passage of the showroom with ventilated massage seats in the front, and heated massage seats in the back. Thanks to its long wheelbase, the Thesis offered a huge amount of rear legroom. This was a car to drive and to be driven in.

A seven-inch display, voice control, Bose sound system, adaptive cruise control, eight airbags, front and rear parking sensors, and keyless entry wouldn’t look out of place on a spec list today.

Home delivery

Lancia also knew how to make a customer feel special. Cars were delivered to the doors of potential clients for a test drive, while showroom staff were trained solely to deal with the Thesis. Once purchased, the car would be delivered to the customer’s home or office by the salesperson who sold the car. A few days later, the dealer principal would call to ensure that everything is in order.

The company promises lifetime ‘Home Service‘ cover, which included collection within 48 hours following a report of any faults, a loan car while the Thesis was in for repair, and a dedicated freephone number. Could any lucky Thesis owners could report on the effectiveness of this service?

Maybe it’s the passing of time or simply the increasing number of over-styled SUVs on our roads, but the Lancia Thesis appears to be ageing like a fine Italian wine. Those front and rear bumpers, free of clutter, look delightful, while the overall design, which might have looked out of place at the turn of the millennium, is most welcome in 2019.

Everything in context. Picture yourself driving home from the opera in a Thesis; the world is monochrome as your tyres roll across the gravel outside your immaculate Italianate townhouse. The sound of Puccini is heard from inside as your Monica Bellucci lookalike wife greets you at the door. Life is good.

The Lancia Thesis slots into this vision in a way that a contemporary German exec can only imagine. If only the world had been kinder to the misunderstood Italian. They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they’ll listen now.

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Rare Rides: The 2003 Lancia Thesis - Questionable Styling and Legality Comes Standard

Rare Rides occasionally features vehicles that have somehow slipped through the 25-year importation net and exist in this country as illegal immigrants. First up was a little Citroën Picasso hatchback from Arizona, and more recently we featured a bright orange Fiat Barchetta from Florida.

Today we venture into illegality once more, with the luxurious and beautiful Lancia Thesis from 2003.

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The Thesis was Lancia’s executive luxury sedan offering for most of the 2000s. Introduced in 2001, it was a replacement for the outgoing Kappa; Lancia’s version of the Alfa Romeo 166. The Kappa was originally introduced as successor to the Thema sedan, which was Lancia’s version of the Saab 9000. Already featured here in 8.32 guise, Thema was notable for its status as a front-drive sedan powered by a Ferrari V8.

Lancia previewed its Thesis styling in 1998, in the form of the Diàlogos concept car. The production version stayed true to the exterior cues of the concept, designed in-house by Lancia’s American-born lead designer, Michael Robinson.

Lancia pulled out all the stops for its new luxury car. The company intended to take on established contenders like the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and Audi A6. Lancia felt there was room in the marketplace for a more stylish alternative offering the same quality and substance as found in the Germanic offerings.

The automaker also intended to incorporate more advanced technology and creature comforts, and do it all at a significantly lower price. When Thesis went on sale in 2001, it cost 15 percent less, on average, than the E-Class or A6.

Unlike prior large Lancia sedans, which were all a rework of someone else’s car, the Thesis was on its own bespoke platform. While it was front-drive, as expected, it utilized a unique and complicated suspension that was largely made of aluminum. There were also adjustable dampers at both ends, shared with the contemporary Maserati Spyder. Inside, Lancia spared no expense on the materials: High quality leather, real wood trim, and a center console covered in milled magnesium were among the highlights.

Underneath the hood were engines of inline-five or V6 configurations, sourced from Fiat and Alfa Romeo. The smallest engine was a 2.0-liter turbo; the largest was the well-regarded 3.2-liter Alfa V6. A single diesel was also available, a 2.4-liter mill sourced from Fiat. All Thesis shifted through either a five-speed automatic or six-speed manual.

Unfortunately, the battle in which Lancia entered the Thesis was a losing one. Customers continually and reliably chose the established German players instead of the Thesis. By the time it went out of production in 2009, it was long overdue for replacement — and the brass at FCA had just the ticket! 2011 brought an all-new Thema, courtesy of a lightly reworked Chrysler 300.

Today’s Rare Ride is on sale in Wisconsin, of all places. With an automatic transmission and no mention of the engine under hood, it asks $19,995 in good condition. At least it’s very rare, and likely the only one in the United States. Good luck with titling and insurance.

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Interested in lots of cars and their various historical contexts. Started writing articles for TTAC in late 2016, when my first posts were QOTDs. From there I started a few new series like Rare Rides, Buy/Drive/Burn, Abandoned History, and most recently Rare Rides Icons. Operating from a home base in Cincinnati, Ohio, a relative auto journalist dead zone. Many of my articles are prompted by something I'll see on social media that sparks my interest and causes me to research. Finding articles and information from the early days of the internet and beyond that covers the little details lost to time: trim packages, color and wheel choices, interior fabrics. Beyond those, I'm fascinated by automotive industry experiments, both failures and successes. Lately I've taken an interest in AI, and generating "what if" type images for car models long dead. Reincarnating a modern Toyota Paseo, Lincoln Mark IX, or Isuzu Trooper through a text prompt is fun. Fun to post them on Twitter too, and watch people overreact. To that end, the social media I use most is Twitter, @CoreyLewis86. I also contribute pieces for Forbes Wheels and Forbes Home.

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Beautiful interior. Just look at that plush leather upholstery! Not like the paper thin garbage one finds in today's vehicles.

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Zastanawiam się nad kupnem któregoś z nich,tylko Panowie spokojnie Są ogłoszenia thesisa za 3000 E.Samochód moim zdaniem dużo bardziej nietuzinkowy(tylko 16 tys sztuk wyprodukowanych) fajne i bogatsze wnętrze(niektóre wersje z szyberdachem mają fotoogniwa które napędzają klimatyzację w trakcie postoju na wyłączonym silniku)hehe fajny bajer.Tylko części kosmicznie drogie bo m.in elektryczne zawieszenie,silników za bardzo do wyboru nie ma bo nie chcę automatu wiec najpopularniejszy 2,4 ten sam co w 166 najbardziej kuszący jak dla mnie.Tylko trochę obawiam się tego diesla, te wszystkie dwumasy i inne pierdoły mogą człowieka zrujnować.Tylko właśnie, z drugiej strony 166 ale tylko po FL. 2 TS odpada -złom,3 litrowe za duże jedynie 2,5 V6 jakoś do mnie przemawia chociaż bez gazu to za dużo się nie pojeździ z gazem -złom. Co myślicie ?

164 TS 95r 164 TB V6 95r

Poczytaj na forum Lancia Klub Polska, jest tam trochę tematów o zakupie Thesisa.

Te dwa auta łączy tylko klasyfikacja (klasa E) i niektóre silniki..... chyba nic poza tym. Wygląd diametralnie inny, komfort, jakość materiałów wnętrza, cena też..... To nie za bardzo jest co porównywać. Aha, i nie licz że 3.0 ma za duże spalanie a 2.5 Cie tak uszczęśliwi różnice są znikome. - - - Updated - - - GrzesiuSiedlce ma jedno i drugie

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Mam do czynienia i z tymi z tym. 166 jest zdecydowanie prostrza w serwisowaniu ma deczko mniej elektroniki, prostrze i tańsze zawieszenie. Jeśli jesteś człowiekiem który liczy się z kosztami to thesisa omijaj szerokim łukiem, np. 4 wahacze na jedno koło to lekkie przegiecie, a zamienników nie uświadczysz. Znaleść ładnego thesisa nie jest prosto. Jeśli chodzi o skrzynie automatyczne to czy 166 po FL czy thesis to jeden syf, omijaj szerokim łukiem, moim zdaniem trwałością nie dorastają ZF'ą do pięt.

Ostatnio edytowane przez QBA ; 05-11-2012 o 11:34

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tylko ze thesis nie wyglada juz za bardzo atrakcyjnie na dzisiejsze czasy, dziwne kształty ktore nie budzą ani respektu ani jakos specjalnego zachwytu... a 166 po fl czy przed fl na ładnej feldze zawsze bedzie lepiej sie prezentować...

Myślę że to nie miejsce na ocenę wyglądu. Dla każdego co innego. Mocno subiektywne aczkolwiek jestem tego samego zdania.

Oryginalności Lancii nie można odmówić i robi wrażenie nawet na osobach, którym się nie podoba . Rzeczywiście ciężko porównywać te dwa samochody zarówno pod względem komfortu, jak i wykończenia. Przymierzałem się kiedyś do Thesisa, ale koszt 1 szt. amortyzatora to około 1500zł i tak jak pisze QBA o zamiennikach można zapomnieć. Jeżeli sam grzebiesz przy samochodzie to pół biedy, chociaż i tak nie będzie łatwo, ale jak chcesz korzystać z warsztatów to lepiej wybierz 166. Ech... piękna maszyna .

Kup 166. Thesis cie zje kosztami.

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Przy Thesis 166 wygląda marnie. Jak znajdziesz Thesis w dobrym stanie, to będzie graniczyć z cudem. Jeżeli nie patrzysz na koszty, to się nie zastanawiaj tylko bierz Lancię. To auto jedyne w swoim rodzaju... Mnie może będzie kiedyś stać na 159 i Thesis, to wtedy będą obie stały zaparkowane na podwórku

147 2001, 1.6 105 KM- była 156 2003, 2.0 JTS 166 KM- była 156 2003, 2.5 V6 192 KM- była... ehh.. 156 2005 1.9 JTD~`160 KM była 159 2006 1.9 JTD- była 159 2005 1.9 Distinictive- była.. 156 2003 2.0 TS+LPG- była 156 2003 2,5 V6- była.. 156 FL 2005 1.9 jtd- była 166 FL 2005 2,4 jtd - była Alfa Romeo Crosswagon - był.. 156 FL 3.0 V6 - jest Najlepsze auto na świecie - służbowe - jest

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2002 Lancia Thesis 3.0 V6 Review

When the Thesis was launched in 2002, Lancia wanted a flagship to re-position the brand as a maker of convincing luxury cars, an Italian Mercedes if you like. The Thesis’ predecessor, the Kappa, had been less successful than the Thema, despite receiving plaudits for its refinement, packaging and capable chassis. The Thesis was supposed to recover ground lost during the Kappa’s production run and also to re-affirm the company´s tradition of top-drawer refinement and visual elegance.

To this end, Lancia threw enormous resources at the Thesis such that it had its own unique platform and shared no pressings or interior parts with any other Fiat group product. As quoted in CAR magazine in 2002, the designer Mike Robinson said “People will be looking for reasons not to buy this car. We don’t want to give them any.”

Not so much has been written about the Thesis so I decided to see for myself what the car was really like and to find out why only 16,000 were sold during a seven year production run.

Technicalities: The construction of the Thesis was fairly conventional: a transversely mounted engine driving the front wheels. Given that the Thesis was intended more for comfort than handling the selected arrangement is, objectively, a rational one. Lancia’s reasoning was probably the same as Rover’s: most people are indifferent as to which axle is receiving the power.

A 2 litre soft turbo, a 2.4 litre 20 valver and a 3.0 V6 24 valve engine made up the petrol burning range. A 2.4 JTD diesel was also available. The suspension design was a mix of the ordinary and the clever. The routine elements consisted of independent five-link suspension with coil springs. The intention behind this set up was to minimise the distance between the wheel centre and the virtual steering axle to the advantage of accuracy and crispness. At the rear were installed multiple-arm suspension elements, designed to provide a good capacity to absorb impacts. In essence, these were just incremental improvements on the theme of multi-link suspension.

All the same, I do like the idea of bringing the wheel centre and steering axle together as these kind of refinements were what made Lancias steer so well in the ’70s. The clever part was the use of telescopic Skyhook adaptive dampers. These gadgets allow semi-active suspension in that the damper rates can be varied by computer management to suit the driving conditions and driving style. All this was done with microchips smaller than your thumbnail. A similar system is used on the Maserati Spyder.

These specifications were class competitive but don’t compare to the originality of Lancia’s 1963 Flavia: transverse leaf springs and double wishbones at the front and dead axle and transverse leaf springs at the rear, supporting a front-wheel drive four-cylinder boxer engine. The Flavia’s peers were at that time using straight sixes and eights sending power to the rear. The point here is that the differences between the Thesis and its peers are not insignificant but not very great either, and the chassis design was nothing like as ingenious as its ’60s ancestor.

The Thesis weighed from 1600 kilos for smaller engined versions to 1800 kilos, as in the 3.0 V6 tested here. By way of comparison, the 1999 Mercedes S-320 weighed less, having 30 kilos fewer to drag along. Given that the Thesis is smaller in most dimensions than an S, it was thus a conspicuously dense machine. Being 4888 mm long and having a front drive format meant the passenger compartment was spacious, with plenty of room in every direction. The boot holds a competitive 480 litres.

Whilst the chassis and power train of the Thesis were quite conventional, Lancia was in some sense leading the way by encrusting the mechanicals with a dizzying superabundance of extra equipment, digital trinkets and electric novelties, more than one could list fully in the space allowed.

The 3.0 litre tested was equipped with integrated satellite navigation (a novelty in 2002), an automatic gearbox, electrically-powered automatic parking brakes and four-way adjustable climate control. This can send chilled air through lushly damped louvres on the elegantly sculpted dashboard and through vents in the b-pillars. In addition, subtle perforations in a metal strip across the dash allow draught free ventilation.

Almost everything is powered apart from the front sun visors and the minuscule front ashtray. The multi-adjustable seats could be set to memorise the driver’s postural preferences. Servos even operate the front head restraints. This in itself is a wonderfully unnecessary refinement and speaks volumes about the painstaking efforts to create a truly luxurious saloon. The glove box opens with the push of a daintily chromed button (but amusingly, the glove box itself won’t hold more than a few packs of cigarettes).

A power operated sunblind performs impressive acrobatics: simply dab a switch on the rosewood veneered centre console. It’s worth pausing here to consider that engineering that sunblind probably involved a team of six engineers at a cost of several hundred thousand euros. Naturally, the boot lid is power operated, requiring merely nudge of a button to open and a slight push to close.

Exterior: The vehicle exterior is dominated by the gloriously confident Lancia grille, evoking the firm’s past triumphs. The diamond shaped headlamps are powerful Xenon units. Both the grille and the headlamps are set amidst quite large expanses of unadorned metal work. The intention, according to Lancia’s designer, was to create the impression of glittering jewellery.

The rear lamps – striking vertical slashes- are painfully intense and are simultaneously nostalgically chrome edged and ultra-modern with the LED technology. The theme then was of evocative classicism underpinned by the latest in automotive technology. All the panels were joined tightly and the vehicle was well surfaced, apart from an odd depression where the wing to bonnet valley fades into the plastic bumper.

Interior: I’ve mentioned the features but I haven’t described how they all work together. It’s no use loading a car with toys if they are not well assembled or made of the best materials. Are they? The Lancia’s interior uses leather, metal, wood and the finest plastic. And they are handled well. The interior is well sculpted and classic without being too retro.

The wood strip gracing the dashboard and doors is thick and very evidently real tree. It’s the kind of substantial slab of wood not seen since the solid door capping on 1970’s Ford Granada Ghia’s. All this adds up to lashings of comfort, warmth and quality. It is an effect very, very different from the cold, hardness achieved by Mercedes and Lexus. Even a Jaguar XJ seems a bit glacial in comparison while the similarly priced S-type is embarrassingly Crown Victoria.

The driver’s seat – hand stitched parchment hide- is beautifully supportive without being too firm. The Thesis passes the door slam test, by a factor of five. Pulling the door shut required a well-judged degree of effort, just enough to make you notice the heft. When the door clunked home it felt as if each element of the closure was machined to a fine tolerance. It made me think of a Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3, in fact.

In front of the driver is a classically styled instrument pack. The lettering is redolent of the labelling on a bottle of fine Italian wine and indeed it’s all in Italian. Rather surprisingly, there is an analogue gauge to display fuel consumption, scaled from 6 litres per 100 km to 20 litres per 100 kilometres. It isn’t more readable or effective than a digital LCD display but it is incredibly amusing as it sweeps from left to right like a deranged pendulum.

The rear of the car is a similarly fine place to reside. The legroom is plentiful, more than enough to sprawl out during a long trip from Rome to Cap Ferrat. The centre console features the display and buttons for the climate control so while the driver might require 17 degrees, passengers can opt for more or fewer independently. The stereo system can be operated by a remote control unit. Each of the finely trimmed doors has an ashtray of pretty respectable size and the door cards are unusually handsome, made of precisely the same high quality materials as those at the front.

In short, whether you’re up front twirling the steering wheel or being cossetted in the back, the Thesis is a terribly agreeable place to find oneself.

In motion: We’re 1200 words into this review at which point it really does become very necessary to start revealing what the Thesis is like to drive. Putting it very bluntly, the Thesis is singularly unobtrusive, resembling nothing so much as a really talented butler. I drove the car in a variety of different modes, ranging from tasteless dashing along narrow country lanes at one extreme and, at the other, driving like I had a hung-over primo ministro slumping in the back. Whatever it is asked, the Thesis does what it is told.

If you stamp on the accelerator pedal, the vehicle takes a tiny pause and then leaps forward. Very little vibration is felt and little noise heard. The Skyhook suspension coupled with the sheer weight of the car do a remarkable job at smothering bumps and potholes. The ride is impressively smooth without being floaty. Bad surfaces are simply ignored by the Thesis while changes in direction do not provoke annoying body roll. This is comfort-orientated suspension that respects the needs of handling to a commendable degree. Presumably the benchmark for Lancia was Jaguar not BMW.

With an automatic transmission, there was little to do but steer and brake. And the steering is pleasantly light, quite direct but not nervous and the car had a crisp bite to the turn-in. Of torque steer there was no sign. At the same time, the steering had no positive character either, being more a collection of elegant neutralities. I wanted to notice the steering character rather than to notice I could not detect anything either way. That’s my problem though, not Lancia’s. Like the good butler, it is keeping its personality, its means of operation, completely hidden.

When confronted with a sharp corner, it was best to brake, turn and accelerate again. The Thesis is not a go-kart. But the Thesis felt controllable and if you really had to cover 100 kilometres using b-roads, the car would do it without complaint. But at no point would you feel as if you were in physical contact with the car’s mechanical core.

That kind of road testing is, in the end, rather pointless except to say that the Thesis, could in extremis, make a good fist of getting you from Zurich to Lausanne decisively ahead of schedule, even if you avoided the motorways. But if driven as intended, the Thesis as a car simply disappears for both driver and passenger and instead the wealth of creature comforts come to the fore. In the end, the Thesis is a means not an end in itself. I’ve always said that if Vincenzo Lancia was still around he’d be making Lexuses (or do I mean Lexi?). These too, in their larger manifestations, are smooth and compliant servants rather than machines with which to take on 120 kilometres of coast road for the fun of it.

Sobering Thought: At 20 miles per gallon, the Thesis has a touring range of 333 miles. From Rome to Cap Ferrat would require a stop for fuel after 5 hours.

Concluding ruminations: Mr Robinson’s determination to avoid offering hostages to fortune failed at the first hurdle. By aiming for classicism the Thesis was immediately marked down as retro-design as were Rover’s 75 and Geoff Lawson’s Jaguars. I mentioned that the car was slightly smaller in most dimensions when compared to the 1999 Mercedes S-class. The Lancia is unfortunately taller, to the benefit of headroom but to the detriment of appearance.

The car looks slightly too short which is a huge pity as the car is in fact, actually very big indeed. The very plain side elevations (the c-pillar is the weak link) and the odd proportions evoke the 1960s Flavia but this is such an odd reference. I doubt it was intentional. When shaping the bodysides I presume the designers were hoping for cool restraint but instead achieved banality.

How you feel about the car’s appearance depends on which angle you view it from and whether you are sitting inside it or outside it. From the inside it’s simply lovely and says ‘Latin luxury’ without making you think of 1980s Maseratis or the Renault Safrane Baccara. But to get inside the car you have to get past the exterior, which presumably many people failed to do, even if they were only shown the front, its best aspect.

It’s the inconsistencies that puzzle: the striking front and rear contrasting with the Hyundai body side; the cast magnesium cover for the CD loading slot, not four centimetres above the fiddly flimsy lid of the tiny ashtray; incredible thought was put into the lovely details like the rear lamps and grille but the car’s proportions are just noticeably wrong. Perhaps this is because as a statesman’s car the need for maximum interior space trumped the requirement for supreme elegance. But if it was packaged as a statesman’s limousine why are there are no reading lights in the rear c-pillars and why is there not one single cigar lighter for the rear passengers?

Dynamically, the Thesis offers very good refinement and a generous turn of speed. And thus it lands between a few stools. It’s not as refined as a Mercedes E-class. It’s not as sporting as Jaguar S-type. Volvo’s S80 catered very well to the driver unconcerned with dynamics. For Lancia enthusiasts expecting sportiness, the Thesis is too smooth and aloof and not fast enough. For Lancia enthusiasts expecting the cerebral satisfaction of a car with palpable mechanical character the Thesis is too distant and inscrutable.

And finally: Perhaps it would have been better if the Thesis had been a car in the Mondeo class, rather than trying to offer S-class size for a less than E-class price. Think of it like this: if you want a better class of Mondeo, you are forced to choose a sporty German saloon. But what if Lancia had offered a more comfortable, more pleasant alternative? For the Mondeo driver, half the refinements of the Thesis would have been enough, so long as the car was at least as good to drive. And taking five percent of the C/D market might have been a lot easier than trying to take sales from the sector dedicated to serving Europe’s richest, least imaginative and least interesting people.

Considering the car as it is, rather than what else it could have been, it is a fine thing: well made, extremely comfortable and very well equipped indeed. It is even charming in many of its details. It’s when you triangulate the car against its peers and betters you realise that Lancia simply did a very fine job of making the wrong car.

Facts: Horsepower 215. Compression ratio 10:1. Maximum torque 263Nm at 5000 rpm. 5 speed automatic gearbox standard. Standard wheels were 215/60 R16 95W. Steering rack and pinion with variable rate power assistance. Front: Independent multilink suspension, coil springs with telescopic Skyhook adaptive damping, torsion bar. Rear: multilink with anti-roll bar. Ventilated disc brakes

Length: 4888 (Merc S-class: 5220 mm);

Height: 1470 (Mercedes S.-class 1444 mm)

Wheelbase: 2803 mm.

Rear track: 1541 mm; front track: 1569 mm.

Luggage room: 480 litres.

Weight: 1895 kg in 3.0 litre trim (Mercedes S-320: 1770 kg)

Fuel tank capacity: 75 litres.

How fast? How thirsty?

O – 60: 9,2 seconds

A kilometre in 29,8 seconds

Fuel consumption, claimed 31 mpg on tour, combined 20 mpg.

Tested Feb 6th 2011. Conditions: dry, windless, 2-4 degrees.

Ergonomics: test driver is 5´ 9″, 70 kilos, 50th percentile male (height).

Note: If you like this article, please feel free to post a comment below. Have you driven a Thesis? Did you find out what you wanted to know? Or just say what´s on your mind concerning Lancia´s sad demise…. You are one of a constant stream of daily visitors to this page so share your views with your fellow Lancia enthusiasts. Thanks for calling by!

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43 thoughts on “2002 Lancia Thesis 3.0 V6 Review”

Is the car conservative? It is retro but the styling was not reserved. Since there are so many saloons with sporting pretensions the decision to provide something different was to be applauded. The car had plenty of muscle to do some asphalt ripping which is great if you really have to press on. However, the demeanour of the car is more about comfort and refinement. The more I think about it, the more puzzled I am that it didn´t get at least sales of 50,000 units worldwide. There just isn´t that much that is so wrong with it. Some of the reasons for failure are not intrinsic to the car but reside in Lancia´s marketing strategy and perhaps their dealer network. If someone can tell me how well the Citroen C6 sold I´d be pleased to hear, the C6 being at least as outré as the Lancia and not too different in pricing. We can conclude that the market is very intolerant of what are, to be objective, very small variations from the norm.

I must say that I could have written something slightly different a week ago and I could write a review with another angle next week. To attack myself, I have conflated judgments of the car from a marketing point of view with judgments of the car as a thing in its own right. The reasons for its market failure (it was the wrong car) are not reasons to criticise the car as an ownership proposition. The idiosyncratic styling could be seen as a plus and they are certainly not so odd to permit one to say the car is objectively bad. Objectively, the worst things about the car were trivial: small ashtray, absent reading light, slightly severe fuel consumption (but it was the V6). The build quality was fine and the seats comfortable and the ride quality superb. Was it a driver´s car? No. Did it have a “personality”? No, it had features and competence. So, perhaps I should rewrite the review and leave out all the marketing philosophy. The aftermarket wheels were horrible but the ride was still good. I imagine running on Lancia footwear the car would be even nicer.

Stephen Bayley wrote this a long time ago: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2724085/Car-culture-Decline-and-fall.html

And a few years later the Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torino has turned into Fabrica Americana-Europea Automobili Londra. I’m rather certain Stephen Bayley isn’t all that proud that his observations have proven to be quite so prescient.

I’m baffled, and not just regarding the automotive sector, how as resourceful a country as Italy could end up on the receiving end of the effects of globalisation.

I don’t quite grasp the chief designer’s strangely negative statement at the launch “People will be looking for excuses not to buy this car. So, we wanted to be damn sure we didn´t give them anything to hook onto.” Unless Mr Robinson was speaking in Italian and suffered a poor translation, did he not realise that many people would still have been looking for excuses to buy a Lancia, being frustrated that Fiat hadn’t given them any for many years? Actually, Lancia gave them a pretty decent excuse to buy, and 16,000 sales must have been a great disappointment.

Whereas it reflects more on my terminally immature personality than the efforts of Mr Robinson’s colleagues that, whilst still conceding that the Thesis is by far the better car, I’d rather take a Thema 8.32 over this, what I don’t understand is the many people who are more mature, disciplined and responsible than me who were too brainwashed to realise that this, and not a hard riding BMW or S-Line Audi, is what they would have been be happiest driving.

I would rather take “Ferrari” Thema myself:) And yes, for those looking for ultimate confort, choosing Thesis over S-line Audi or sports suspension BMW would have been wise decision…

I’ll write a more thoughtful response to this excellent piece of writing later, but in response to the question re C6 sales, the answer is 34,592 according to Citroenet – which is quite a few more than I had thought. Nevertheless, it’s a dismal sales performance over almost 7 years, and, even though the retail price of the car was high, every car must have cost PSA a significant loss. It is not a surprise to me, being an owner: it’s just so left-field for today’s market/ consumer, and inferior in many ways to the more mainstream (mainly German) competition, but full of “character”. Car actually put it well – maybe a little generously – in the GBU – like a French Blue Cheese – repels and attracts in equal amounts.

SV. If you consider that the SM, generally seen as a commercial failure, sold over 13,000 units in less than 5 years, despite being comfortably over twice the price of the most expensive DS, the C6 figures are very disappointing. I do like the C6 and, in part, I’d say the poor sales reflect as badly on the unimaginative, pack-like behaviour of punters as on any shortcomings of the car. However, the suspension of relatively recent hydractive Citroens is confusing. You would think it would be far more feasible to sensitively control a wide range of ride and handling set-ups using hydraulic valves, sensors and electronics, than it would on conventionally sprung cars. Yet the results don’t seem to bear that out. I’m sure Citroen’s current engineers are skilled, but they need a brief from people who have some passion or insight in the field, which I suspect has been long lacking at PSA. Both the modern Citroen and the modern Lancia seem like fuzzy interpretations of their forebears, created from a third generation template where essential details have been lost in each transcription. A bit like Liam Gallagher thinking he was John Lennon.

As a long-term fan of Lancia ( some of my first toy cars were Stratos and lovely safari-type Fulvia ), and other quirky and unusual cars, I was rather surprised to get a chance to use a Thesis 2.4 petrol manual for a month. It did 25,000km in five years, as a fifth car in a family, and still had that new car smell. I did 600km during that month, mostly on highway and I must admit my impressions are somewhat mixed. Considering that it came in same body colour-interior colour/material combination as our Peugeot 406 SVDT 2.1, a comparison was almost inevitable. For starters, engine somewhat lacked low-down torque to move such a heavy car, front seats didn’t suit me at all (but, I do have strange proportions and rarely find a car seat that fits me…) and it didn’t really feel more luxurious than 406. (disclaimer: I do hate modern interiors, that try to look upmarket with fake aluminum, fake wood, fake carbon…I prefer old Jag interiors. In fact, I actually made a wood veneer inserts for my Yugo, however pointless that may seem 🙂 ) Back to Thesis…it felt slightly cumbersome, perhaps even too large (and I used to drive Sprinter van, so big vehicles don’t scare me!), never really feeling any benefit of that famous Skyhook suspension.(wasn’t even sure if it had been there at all!?!). It had standard wheels (could have been 16′, don’t really remember…but sidewalls were tall than car in this test:) ) Again, 406 felt light, darty, compliant, much smaller by comparison. Bells and whistles were there, and worked fine, but novelty worn off after first 200km. After that, I was mostly focused on 6-speed gearbox (first time I used it,… so after first downshift from sixth to third, luckily at really low speed, I took extra precaution not to repeat same mistake again! ) and just taking extra care not to put a scratch on it. Funny coincidence – this car came to me as I was considering my next car purchase, so by using top-spec Thesis (are there any other!?!:) ), I was actually able to learn what gadgets and options I could live without 🙂 But every one that took a ride with me was very impressed, in fact so much that few people said it would be perfect wedding limo! And that about sums it up – it’s great car for passengers (without low profile tyres, of course:) ), but driver may feel somewhat dissapointed. After 406, it didn’t feel nothing special to drive…

The 406 is a hard car to beat. I know it well. The size is perfect and it is remarkably smooth. The seating for the driver and passengers is superb. Following that, the Thesis is bulky and remote. My feeling is that Lancia should have made a smaller, C-D class car like the 406 and matched its driving character. It would have been more affordable and a novelty in a less status-conscious sector. A V6 406 does everything a Thesis does but is more wieldy.

We do agree! Except I didn’t like 406 leather seats at all and that famous electronic gas pedal…but other than that, it was excellent (ok, reliability of our particular version notwithstanding…) However, having been invited as a long-term 406 owner to the test of facelifted, 2.0 HDI model, I was quite surprised its controls felt quite heavy comparing to our car. Like they tried to make it more sporty, tighter, harder…really, I believe it was unnecessary.

Hello to Pistonheads visitors- March 15th

I have no experience of the Thesis short of seeing one parked in Florence one time. My initial thoughts were that it certainly was more impressive in the flesh than in any photographs. Having owned and driven a Trevi and a Thema I am well accustomed to Lancia’s engineering foibles and understated elegance. It has always been my opinion that to buy a Lancia one must first be willing and capable of thinking outside the box. The Thesis has refinements that go unnoticed by the vast majority of the public. I would be happy to own one but for it’s non availability in right hand drive. It’s a pity that car design has slowly followed the white goods route where cost and performance greatly overshadow individuality. The Thesis should be applauded for what it is, a unmistakably uncompromisingly overly designed car.

Thanks for stopping by Fintan. It has occurred to me that (as far as I can recall) I have never seen a Thesis in the wild. I suspect they look a good deal more imposing than they do in static photography. Nevertheless, it remains a car I’d like to drive (or travel in) more than admire from afar.

A question: As a (former?) Trevi and Thema owner, are you inclined to view the Thesis as less or more of a Lancia than the duo you have owned – or is that an unfair question?

I enjoyed your review. Yes, there’s something wrong with the Thesis.

You miss out the Kappa, two of which I’ve had so far. Utterly reliable — unlike all French cars — ask your friendly breakdown wagon driver, he knows. And I have memory heated seats, and a C-post reading light and fag lighter terminal accessible for rear passengers. And rear screen sunblinds but you have to fiddle them up manually. The boot’s 500 litres, in a car appreciably shorter and narrower than Thesis. I grant we have plastic wood. Hardly marketed, as Fiat “luxed up” Alfa’s bigger model, whose 3.0 V6 is much the same as mine. Kappa has smoothish ride, but many are as good or better. Would love Skyhook, which works on the Maserati. The Kappa estate has self-levelling rear suspension, at £400 a pop to replace, and clever storage layout in the back.

And as for the Kappa coupé, that’s a superior car with its SWB still allowing the 500L boot, and prices hold up — I can get a cheaper Thesis. The 2.0L turbo engine is still the fastest regular production Lancia ever, in either 12v or 24v. And the window comes down a bit for opening/closing the doors. But now I’ve seen a BMW X-whatever number which opens your door a couple of inches on remote unlocking.

In the flesh Thesis looks a lot better, maybe because you can’t easily take in all its ungainly bulk in one view. And have chatted to owners, who do huge mileages happily. Doesn’t self-park, like some Deltas –which has been another expensive mistake with a disproportionately long wheebase. The only success they’ve had is little Elefantino, nice at a price.

Part of the problem is political: Italian statesmen must have an Italian conveyance, so it’s longer inside than it would otherwise need to be. And they rarely need to go fast, so it doesn’t matter that Thesis is woefully under-engined for actual owner drivers. The lack of ostentation has often been a Lancia feature: remember the lovely 2000, a miniature Rolls of its time.

Now all surpassed by the XF, beating all the pretentious characterless Germans.

Don’t knock the Safrane Baccara, a gem. But then I thought Vel Satis was fun too.

Thanks for dropping by. We have a few Kappa articles here plus a Trevi test drive. I had a look at the Kappa as a used car but they are too old (my wife wants hundreds of airbags) and the three on sale here are a bit leggy. I have my eye on a Delta: it’s the right size and has a decent boot.

What’s wrong with the Delta’s wheelbase? It’s exactly what makes this car unique and gives it very elegant proportions. Not your everyday Golf-clone hatchback. The only thing you could criticize is that it’s placed right between the usual car segments which might have contributed to the difficulty of selling it. But as Richard says, for people who don’t need a saloon and want something slightly bigger it’s perfect.

The Delta is only 10 cm shorter than the Peugeot 406 and has the same luggage capacity. Cars after the 406/Laguna2/Mondeo2 got too big. It’s a distinctive car in a market of good but very similar products. The Golf/Focus/Astra trio are all good in (slightly) different ways. There’s no mistaking a Delta for anything else, inside or out.

In many ways I think FCA suffers from Roveritis, which is to say that, while they have people in their ranks who are individually talented and work hard, management is fundamentally an inept cancer that continually enables a deep-seated culture of close-enough-is-good-enough. The truth is that FCA is simply not a serious company in the way that a Toyota or BMW are. The Delta, in fact, is a good case in point. I think the styling has held up well – it was an influential design for its class and considering the constraints put on the design team, that is no mean feat. But the devil is in the detail.

Somewhere on one or another of my hard drives I have a handful of photos that neatly encapsulate the Delta’s fate. They are from the Geneva 2008 launch, which was quite a ritzy affair with, from memory, five Deltas on hand (and nothing else from the range in sight, to fully emphasise the Delta’s importance). Three were decked out in white, two in black. The photos focus on the area just below the tip of the grille’s V. On at least two of the white cars, rivulets caused by running paint are very clearly visible. It’s not very evident in the below photo (the clearest I could find on the web), but you can see, just offset to the left from the ridge that runs down from the bottom of the V, the dried-up ball of paint above the lower intake:

http://images.car.bauercdn.com/upload/8673/images/01lanciadeltapostpone.jpg

This might seem like a small thing. But in fact, it was a big thing, because it speaks to the seriousness of the whole enterprise. If you are that slapdash about the quality of the cars that are supposedly relaunching the brand and being gone over by most of the world’s motoring press, how serious are you going to be about production cars? The Delta was not an especially cheap car at launch, but the detailing simply didn’t support the price point, because the budget was simply not made available for it. It’s one of those cars that looks worse the closer you get, because things like the grille and doorhandles look like the cheaply-made plastic pieces they are. It’s a shame, really, but almost duty-bound to be that way, because it is the inevitable result when management is utterly committed to, and only to, facilitating PowerPoint presentations and balancing account ledgers.

Oh dear. I am considering buying one.

I wouldn’t; still overpriced. I was dead keen on this before launch, but disappointed the more I got to see of the cars. Its best feature seemed to be you could stand up with your head out of the sunroof and let it park itself. But that, and almost everything else you might have wanted rather more, is an expensive option. I think this applied to the sliding rear seats which I’d have found a boon on two-person long tours.

What really got me, apart from cheap materials described by previous poster, was that the wheelbase was too long for decent handling. I kow you can say it was good to get away from the rigid segment definitions, but it doesn’t really work with today’s herd mentality. There was a time when Lancia could go against this with flair — no longer.

But today’s news may mean the Chinese will buy Fiat-Chrysler (will Trump allow?) so I’ll be having to buy spares now in case the supply dries up completely.

Hello Vic: thanks for the insight. The Kappa is one of my preferred choices. However, I am not the only user and have to compromise. The reviewers were happy with the car´s materials. I am not *very* concerned about handling as the car is to be driven in Denmark where it´s all about rigorously enforced speed limits. I drive on cruise control most of the time. I like the long wheelbase in that it affords a lot of rear leg room, something I set a high price on.

Richard, I’ve driven in Denmark too. I’m not really happy recommending a Kappa for you as I don’t think it would be v economical in that environment. (I never drive diesels.) You’d have to fit your own cruise control: I’ve never seen a Kappa with it. Lybra might work, but is rare. Has more modern suspension, probably enough airbags — just maybe enough rear legroom. Boot not vast. Oh, and I always choose a car after ensuring I have a mechanic close enough to service/fix it.

Let me know what you think of Lybra idea — afraid I don’t have time to check now.

Some Kappas have all the airbags, maybe only 2000 year Coupés, which will cost a bit for low mileage — they were so good people did use them a lot. But it’s a bigger car.

I looked into the Lybra. There is a leggy one for sale in Kolding. It’s been on sale for months. The rear legroom is disappointing, I have to say. Otherwise a pretty decent car. There are no saloons – the Kolding car is an estate. Life would be easier if I could buy a car from outside Denmark without the mystery of the import (“registration fee”) tax. With all that in mind, the Delta is available, not too high a mileage, spacious and nigh on unique, airbagged. Bloody expensive too.

Richard, first I don’t understand yr import problem: thought DK in the EU, no? What price and year a possible Lybra in, say, Germany/Poland? And what price and yr DK Delta ? Lybra legroom depends on how far front seats are set back, of course. Most factory pix set them right back to give attractive spacious front cabin look! Best go and play with one.

After looking more into Lybra, I might swap out of my Kappa for one — not too expensive here in France, more manouvrable as I age, and an auto box, but only on 2.0L when 1.8 would probably do me. Saloon far better rigid structure than SW. Has to be LX: base model a bit mean.

The import “problem” is twofold. One, there are hard-to-fathom registration fees when the car arrives in Denmark and secondly, domestically, my Danish wife has a very, very strong preference for a locally bought car as opposed to one from outside Denmark (which is in the EU). The Delta I have my eye on is correctly priced for the local market: a huge, huge sum of money which is €8000 plus the Danish registration “tax”. Seriously, don´t ask. It´s a frightener. I will be looking at the car tomorrow.

By the way, are you part of a Lancia forum as well?

A quick look at Lybras wíth under 70,000 km shows them to be a) marvellous as saloons b) rare and c) all in Italy which is domestically a complete no-go. But €3000 gets one a very tidy dark saloon with a tan hide interior. What a lovely car. Sadly, I think I can write that idea off. I notice low mileage Kappas are still worth a lot. The market has belatedly discovered what excellent cars they are.

While I admire your wife’s preference for supporting local Danish enterprises, I’m not sure you’ll be spending enough for the actual financial benefit to them to be very much. There are probably enough Lybras in nearby Holland and Germany to get an idea if it’s the model for you.

I’m not knowingly on other car forums; used to do Viva Lancia! years ago.

Low mileage Kappas are rare, and usually coupés and as you say, holding or increasing prices; mine is a very rare 6ok km berlina, ordered for an Italian mega corp director. True to tax-avoiding stereotype, they got a base model, then loaded it with nearly every extra to get an LX spec without paying the extra tax for it! So I paid a lot for what was a 15-year-old car that looks like a slug, but has complete and comprehensive history. Probably wouldn’t get now what I paid; don’t mind; does what I got it for. [Those stainless window trims can be carefully moved to the right place wearing thick rubber gloves. I’ve seen them on Passats, too, also out of alignment!]

The auto box is “intelligent” — remembers how you’ve driven and constantly updates to what you’re doing now. Love it. Lybra has that too, but adds another option, switching to fully manual too.

Going back to Thesis, which was where I came into your nice site, if they’d just scaled up Lybra to limo size and added Skyhook it would have done far better. Both used input from the Dialogos concept.

Danes are highly risk averse. Buying “abroad” is seen as risky. That, rather than a concern for the economy, drives the preference. The Lancia range needed a car between the Lybra and Thesis: I suppose Lancia thought an image-building large car was the way to go.

Apropros of nothing, I was recently in Belgrade and Lybras (especially SWs) seem to be popular amongst the taxi brigade there.

On the topic at hand, the thing about the Delta is this. It will fit the ‘modern car’ parameters that satisfy your wife much better than even the Lybra and especially the Kappa – it has cruise, is much safer, and so on. As a modern, practical, conventional car with a lot of legroom and a bit of distinctiveness, it’s a perfectly reasonable choice. But with that said, it won’t feel as distinctive as a Kappa or a Lybra, because the engineering freedoms simply weren’t allowed to drag it too far away from a Bravo. I quite like the Bravo so this isn’t really a criticism from my side of the ledger. But it is something to be aware of nonetheless. In any case, my point about the launch cars was more about highlighting management more than engineering incompetence – it is literally impossible to imagine Piech allowing something like this to occur.

I would note that regarding reviewers’ impressions of materials, you might notice they tended to go out of their way to point out how nice the seats are etc etc, usually adding an addendum like, “which means you don’t notice the dashboard plastics”. In truth, actually, for me it is not really the plastic quality so much as the chosen treatment that I don’t care for – the silver-spray radio/infotainment slab on most models I personally find pretty unsightly. There is a piano black finish on expensive ones that makes a world of difference, but I’m going to guess they sold approximately none of these in Denmark, and any that may exist are prohibitively expensive. The cheap materials on the outside, I would say much the same about. As the reviews of Skodas and Hyundais from the 1980s would say, they get the job done. But they just look and feel cheap, and in that way, they undermine the pleasure I take in the car. If you can live with that, though, it sounds like a good car for your requirements.

Today I viewed the Delta. Report to follow.

You do not have to master marketing to know that the unconventional design of the headlights was reason enough for plenty of potential customers not to buy the car. You simply not succeed in selling this kind of refinement to mass customers. Ask at VW how well they’ve understood this and why the VW Golf is such a success. This said, the beautiful front design would be one of the main reasons I’d buy a car that would set me apart from everything else on the streets. But as we know also most of customers which can afford this sort of car do not want to stand out too much from their peers driving around in boring Mercs and BMs..

For someone with a design background I ought to be able to spot that about the lamps. I don´t see the problem there but in the proportions and the bland centre.

I must say that I find the Thesis fascinating and lovely, in many respects, but I have problems ‘seeing’ the front.

I have to study it each time I see it to work out the angles involved, especially of the area that surrounds the grille. Also, at a glance, it looks as though it doesn’t have a bumper or anything to ‘bring it to a conclusion’ at the front.

Finally, the lights strike me as being relatively small and very much at the edges. All of this might be wrong, but it’s the way I see it and I have similar difficulties with the Ford Scorpio. It’s not an ugly design, exactly, but there’s something disturbing about it.

Am I reading too much into the shape of those headlamps, or are they intended to look a little like the Lancia badge, from a high (standing adult) viewing angle?

Hello Daniel – could be. One would have to look at the blurb for the Thesis / Dialogos concept, possibly. By the way, I came across these concepts – I hadn’t seen them before.

http://www.conceptcar.ee/conceptcars/106-lancia/6264-lancia-thesis-prototypes.html

Those concept pictures are fascinating. I like the one on the left quite a lot. It’s interesting to note that the middle concept has much better flanks than the production car.

Well here i am, replying on an ancient article on a car i intend to buy. Driven by a subconsious alarm that tells me not to. I want the car because it’s lush and luxurious, exotic in a way and it has a V6 engine, enough power and a faint charm about it that is impossible to describe. Also, i set my financial realm to around 3000 euro’s so there is not a whole lot to choose fromin this segment. Apart from it’s debated flaws and quirky looks that should withold me, i’m just wondering whether i am inclined to considder buying this machine. There’s just something that stands out from the other cars that fit this bill..something that lures me in. Maybe this is my car karma, wich has let me down once too often. Somebody: please discourage me (with arguments)!

Good morning Bas and welcome to Driven To Write. I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place if you wish to be discouraged from buying a Lancia of any sort! The Thesis would be a lovely modern classic to own, quietly elegant and understated (unlike almost all current cars). Go for it!

Always bear in mind that the cost of keeping such a car on the road is not depending on the purchase price but on the class of car and that Lancias are particularly expensive to maintain because their spare partes are exceptionally expensive if you can get them. The biggest problem with all cars from the Fiat emporium is spare parts availability. For cars like Thesis, 166 or 916 there is literally nothing you can buy at a Fiat dealer. With luck you get wiper blades and brake pads but that’s all. No body parts and only very few mechanical spares are avilable. Last summer I searched five weeks for a used cambelt cover to replace a cracked one on an Alfa 916 and a Thesis surely isn’t any better. The Alfa V6 is an expensive engine to run and to maintain. Driven hard it has a tendency to drink. You probably never will see better than ten litres per 100 km, inner city driving will be between 13 and 16 litres per 100 km and fast autobahn driving will nearly invariably be beyond 20 litres and beyond. It then also consumes some oil. The V6 needs seven litres of fully synthetic 10W-60 oil every 20.000 kms and you should not go for cheap oil if you want your engine to last. Follow the old Alfa buyers’ recommendatoin and let the owner start the test drive – make sure he is warming it up properly for at least 20 kilometres before he uses it hard. If not, walk away. Maintained and driven properly, the engine will last for 250.000 kms and a bit more which is quite respectable regarding the leaden right foot of the majority of Alfa owners. An Alfa engine overhaul is expensive and definitely not a job for the faint hearted or the inexperienced. Cambelt replacement is recommended every 60.000 kms and should not be pushed beyond 80.000 kms and is a more than 1.000 € job. Look at the service bills to check that. A properly maintained Alfa V6 can provide a lot of fun, a badly maintained one can (and will) become a pig.

I’m an old Italian car nut myself but I wouldn’t do it, at least not at the price level you are looking at. The risk is far too high to buy a car with a significant servicing ‘backlog’ that would become an object of endless money spending. The non-availability of any spare parts also would prevent me from buying such a car.

I can only agree with Dave’s comments. Especially his comment about the budget. With a vehicle at this price level, a significant servicing ‘backlog’ is definitely to be expected. Due to the non-availability of spare parts outlined by Dave – and to be a bit flowery, he was only describing the door handle of the “gate to hell” – a expensive car is the better car in any case.

Should you find a vehicle of your choice and all is well, rest assured I am already envious.

Sorry but I can´t discourage you with any factual reasons to avoid the Thesis. It´s comfortable, elegant, pleasant to drive and distinctive. The rear seating will win friends with your family and acquaintances. The only downside is the silly glove compartment and the tiny ash-tray.

Lancia Thesis Owner's Handbook Manual

Owner's manual (165 pages)
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Parking over Flammable Material
Engine Start-Up
Protecting the Environment
Electrical Accessories
Scheduled Servicing
Travelling Safety and in Harmony with Nature
Safeguarding the Environment
Use of Environment-Friendly Materials
Fuel Evaporation Canister
Devices for Reducing Petrol Engine Emissions
Lambda Sensors
Three-Way Catalytic Converter (Catalytic Exhaust Pipe)
Devices for Reducing Diesel Engine Emissions
Oxidising Catalytic Converter
Exhaust Gas Recirculation (E.G.R.) System
The Signs to Help You Drive Correctly
Connect Infotelematic System
Controls on the Steering Wheel
Remote Control
Audio and TV Function: Control Summarizing Table
Ignition Switch
Steering Column Lock
Versions with Keyless System
In an Emergency
Steering Column Lock Always off
The Lancia Code System
The Key Operates
Remote Control Functions
Functions that Can be Actuated with the Metal Insert of the Key
Actuation Logic of the Boot Lock by Means of the Remote Control
Actuation Logic of the Boot Lock by Means of the Metal Insert of the Key
Automatically Actuated Functions
Opening the Tailgate
Key Battery Replacement
Electronic Alarm
Self-Test and Door/Bonnet/Boot Control Functions
Surveillance
Switching the Alarm on
Anti-Lifting Sensor
Switching the Alarm off
Volumetric Protection
Deactivating the Alarm
Functions that Can be Deactivated or Modified
Indications of Attempts to Break in
What Triggers the Alarm off
Easy Entry/Exit System
Ministerial Homologation
Recognition System (Keyless System)
"Garage" Position
AVV Position
Knob for Actuating Instrument Panel and Engine Start-Up
MAR Position
STOP Position
Engine Stop
Steering Column Locking
Steering Column Unlocking
Door Unlocking to Access Car
Autoclose Function
Locking the Door and Leaving the Car
Tailgate Opening
Central Locking/Opening of Windows and Sunroof
Failure Indication
System Settings
CID Device Battery Replacement
Request for Additional CID Devices
Opening/Closing from the Outside
Deadlock Device
Door Open Indication
Opening/Closing from the Inside
Automatic Door Locking When Speed Exceeds 20 KM/H
Disabling Rear Door Locking/Unlocking Controls
Initialising the Door Locking Control Unit
Lock Release in Case of Accident
Electrically Adjustable Seats
Front Seats
Manually Adjustable Seats
Lumbar Adjustment
Recalling Stored Positions
Storing the Driver's Seat Positions
Automatic Realignment of External Rear View Mirrors
Comfort Seats
Head Restraints
Electric Adjustment
Manual Adjustment
Steering Wheel
Automatically Adjustable
External Rearview Mirrors
Internal Rearview Mirror
Rearview Mirrors
Automatic Rearview Mirror Realignment
Storing the “Parking” Position of the Right-Hand Rearview Mirror
Anti-Trap Safety System
Electric Windows
Driver’s Side
Front Windows
Rear Windows
Centralised Window and Sunroof Opening/Closing System
Manual and Automatic Operation
Rear Controls
How to Use the Seat Belts
Adjusting the Height of the Front Seat Belts
Pretensioners
General Instructions for the Use of the Seat Belts
Load Limiting Devices
How to Keep the Seat Belts in Proper Working Order at All Times
Carrying Children Safely
GROUP 0 and 0+
Passenger Seat Compliance with Regulations on Child's Seat Use
Presetting for Mounting the "Isofix Type" Child Restraint System
Mounting the ISOFIX TYPE Child Restraint System
"Smart Bag" System
Description and Operation
Front and Side Airbags
Manually Deactivating the Passenger's Front Airbag
Passenger's Front Airbag
Side Airbags
Manually Deactivating the Rear Side Bags
General Notes
Light Switch
Light Switch and Steering Column Stalks
Parking Lights
Automatic Switching On/Off
Delayed Light Switching off
Twilight Sensor
Left-Hand Stalk
To Flash the Lights
Direction Indicators
Right-Hand Stalk
Windscreen Washer
Windscreen Wiper
Headlight Washer
Rain Sensor
Rain Sensor Failure
Instrument Panel
Petrol Versions
JTD Versions
Instruments
REV Counter
Speedometer
Engine Coolant Temperature Gauge with Overheating Warning Light
Fuel Gauge and Reserve Warning Light
Flash Consumption Gauge
Information on Standard Screen
Kilometre Counter (and Trip Meter) and Automatic Gearbox
Multifunction Display
Car Conditions
CONNECT Information
Driver’s Aiding System Information
Check Stage
Start-Up Checks
Engine Oil Level Check (JTD Versions Only)
IMPORTANT Instrument Panel
Scheduled Servicing Info
Instrument Panel Warning Lights and Messages
Left Direction Indicator
Right Direction Indicator
Injection System Failure
Low Brake Fluid Level
ABS System Failure
EBD System Fault
Electric Parking Brake (EPB)
EPS System Failure
Multifunction Display Warning Lights and Messages
Follow Me Home Device
Instrument Dimmer
Steering Wheel Lock
Bonnet and Boot
Window Anti-Trap Safety System
Lancia CODE, Keyless System (CID Device) and Alarm System
Glow Plugs (JTD Versions)
Outside Temperature (Ice Hazard)
EPS (Electronic Stability Program)
ASR System (Wheel Antiskid System)
EBD System (Electronic Brakeforce Distributor)
EOBD (Engine Control System)
EPB (Electric Parking Brake)
Injection System (Where Provided - JTD Versions)
Cruise Control
Radar Cruise Control
Electronic Automatic Transmission (COMFORTRONIC)
Power Steering (VARIOSTEER)
Suspensions (SKYHOOK - Where Provided)
Brake Fluid Level
Headlamp Inclination Adjustment System
Engine Oil Pressure
Low Battery Charge
Engine Coolant Level
Engine Coolant Temperature
Side/Taillights
Windscreen Washer Fluid Level
Brake Lights
Inertia Switch (Fuel Cut-Off Switch)
Number Plate Light
Rear Fog Lights
Diesel Fuel Filter (JTD Versions)
Parking Sensors
Antipollution Filter Clogged (2.4 JTD 20V CAE Version)
Change Engine Oil (2.4 JTD 20V CAE Version)
Engine Oil Level Sensor (JTD Versions)
Climate Control System
Directional and Adjustable Vents
Automatic Climate Control System
Front Control Panel
Initialising the Air Conditioning Control Unit
Back Control Panel
How to Use the Climate Control System
Knobs for Adjusting Air Temperature
Buttons for Adjusting Front Air Distribution
Buttons for Adjusting Rear Air Distribution
AUTO Buttons
Buttons for Adjusting Fan Speed
MONO Button (Set Temperature and Air Distrib Ution Alignment)
REAR Button (Rear Control Panel Activation)
Air Recirculation On/Off Button
Climate Control System Compressor off Button
Button for Fast Windscreen Demisting/Defrosting
OFF Button (System Off)
Active Carbon Dust/Pollen Filter
Ventilation During a Stop
Supplementary Heater
Operation with Engine Stationary
Operate Now
Timed Heater Activation/Deactivation through CONNECT
Heater Activation/Deactivation with the Remote Control
Activation Length
Switching the Heater on
Checking and Replacing the Batteries
Replacing the Batteries
Switching the Heater off
Operation with Engine Running
Request for Additional Remote Controls
“Supplementary Heater” Mode
Hazard Lights
Technical Specifications
Front Fog Lights
Fuel Cut-Off Switch and Circuit Breaker
Heated Rear Window
Door Unlocking in Case of Accident
Resetting the Fuel Cut-Off Switch
Resetting the Circuit Breaker
Electric Parking Brake
Automatic Disengagement
Automatic Engagement
Deactivating the Automatic Operation
Use in an Emergency
Emergency Disengagement
Fault Indication
Manual Gearbox
Electronic Automatic Gearbox (Comfortronic)
Starting the Engine
Stopping the Car
Automatic Operation
P - Parking
Selecting the Automatic/Manual Sequential Operation
D - Forward Gear (Automatic)
N - Neutral
R - Reverse
Winter Programme
Manual Sequential Operation
Automatic Transmission Fault
Automatic Transmission Oil Temperature High
Bump Starting
Sound Signal
ESP and ASR Systems
Towing the Car
ESP System Operation
ASR Function (Antislip Regulation)
ASR Function Activation
ESP and ASR Failure Indication
ESP System Action
MSR System (Engine Drive Adjustment)
Initialising the ESP System Control Unit
Cruise Control (Constant Speed Regulator)
Increasing the Stored Speed
Resetting the Stored Speed
Storing the Speed
Deleting the Stored Speed
Reducing the Stored Speed
Radar Cruise Control (RCC)
Parking Sensor
Sensor Operating Range
Towing a Trailer
Front Ceiling Light
Interior Equipment
Door Puddle Lights
Rear Ceiling Light
Courtesy Mirrors
Rearview Mirror Lights
Front Ashtray and Cigar Lighter
Rear Ashtrays
Glove Compartment
Oddment Compartment
Climate-Controlled Drink Compartment
Front Bottle/Can Holder
Door Pockets
Oddment Compartment on the Dashboard
Central Console Compartment
Rear Armrest Compartment
Rear Bottle/Can Holder
Electric Sunshade
Power Socket
Accessories Purchased by the User
Installation of Electronic Devices
Map Pockets
Radio Transmitters and Cellular Telephones
Solar Cell Operated Sunroof
Sunroof Opening/Closing and Pivoting
Central Sunroof and Window Locking System
Emergency Manoeuvre
Solar Cells
Opening from the Inside
Opening by Means of the Remote Control
Opening from the Outside with the Key
Boot Lock Opening/Closing by Remote Control
Boot Lock Opening/Closing by Metal Insert of the Key
Boot Ceiling Light
Closing the Boot
Luggage Nets
Anchoring the Load
Luggage Transport - Important
Fuel Filler Cap
Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF)
Diesel Particulate Filter Clogged
Anchorage Points
Roof Rack - Ski Rack
Automatic Dynamic Beam Adjustment Device
Headlight Beam Adjustment Control Unit
Headlamp Orientation for Left-/Right Hand Drive
EOBD System
ABS Operation
EBD (Electronic Brake-Force Distributor)
Sound System
Bose Hi-Fi Sound System
How to Start JTD Versions
How to Start Petrol Versions
Engine Warming up
Stopping the Engine
Emergency Start-Up
Before Getting Behind the Wheel
Safe Driving
When Travelling
Driving at Night
Driving in the Rain
Driving in Fog
Driving in the Mountains
Driving on Snow and Ice
Driving with ABS
Containing Running Costs and Pollution
General Considerations
Conditions of Use
Driving Style
Cheap Running that Respects the Environment
Looking after Emission Control Devices
Installation Diagram
Tow Hitch Installation
Winter Tyres
Snow Chains
Storing the Car
Using the Car Again
Useful Accessories
Jump Starting
Changing a Wheel
If a Bulb Burns out
General Instructions
Types of Bulbs
Front Light Cluster
If an Exterior Bulb Burns out
Side Direction Indicators
Rear Light Cluster
Reversing Light and Rear Fog Lights
Additional Brake Light
If an Interior Bulb Burns out
Number Plate Lights
Glove Compartment Light
Courtesy Mirror Lights
Door Lights
Door Mirror Lights
If a Fuse Blows
Fuse Location
General Fuses
Fuses in the Dashboard
Fuses in the Boot
Disconnecting the Loaded Battery
If Battery Is to be Disconnected
Disconnecting the Unloaded Battery
If the Battery Is Flat
Recharging the Battery
Jacking the Car
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With the Jack
If an Accident Occurs
If Anyone Is Injured
First-Aid Kit
Service Schedule
Additional Checks
Annual Inspection Schedule
Checking Fluid Levels
Engine Oil Consumption
Engine Coolant
Power Steering Fluid
Brake and Hydraulic Clutch Fluid
Air Cleaner
Diesel Filter
Draining the Condense
Dust/Pollen Filter
Checking the Battery Charge
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Replacing the Battery
Useful Advice for Lengthening the Life of Your Battery
Electronic Control Units
Spark Plugs
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Rubber Tubing
Windscreen Wipers
Replacing the Blades
Spray Nozzles
Headlight Washers
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Tips for Keeping the Body in Good Conditions
Cleaning Chromium Plated/Anodized Bodywork Parts
Cleaning Alcantara Seats
Engine Compartment
Plastic Parts Inside the Car
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Cleaning Velvet Seats and Fabrics
Steering Wheel/Gear Lever Knob with Genuine Leather Covering
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Engine Codes - Bodywork Versions
Fuel Feed - Ignition
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Summary of Contents for Lancia Thesis

Page 2 We are sure that these instruments will help you easily attune to and appreciate both your new car and the LANCIA team that will be on hand to provide you with any help you may require. Best regards and have a great trip! This Owner Handbook describes all the THESIS versions.
Page 3 MUST BE READ! REFUELLING Petrol engines: only refuel with unleaded petrol with octane rating (RON) no less than 95. Diesel engines: only refuel with diesel fuel conforming to the European specification EN590. The use of other products or mixtures may irreparably damage the engine with invalidation of the warranty due to the damage caused.
Page 4 If, after buying the car, you decide to add electrical accessories (that will gradually drain the battery), visit a Lancia Dealership. They can calculate the overall electrical requirement and check that the car's electric sys- tem can support the required load.
Page 5 TRAVELLING SAFELY AND IN HARMONY WITH NATURE Safety and respect for the environment are the guidelines that inspired the THESIS design from the drawing board onwards. This concept has meant that the THESIS has been able to face and pass the strictest safety tests. So much so that, from this point of view, the car is the best in its class and has probably already incor- porated features that belong to the future.
Page 6 SAFEGUARDING THE ENVIRONMENT Safeguarding the environment has directed the design and manufacturing of the THESIS right from the start. The result is the use of materials and the perfection of devices that can reduce or sweep- ingly reduce harmful influences on the environment. The THESIS is equipped with environment safeguarding devices which curtail harmful exhaust gas emissions, is ready to travel well ahead of the most stringent international pollution control stan- dards.
Page 7 DEVICES FOR REDUCING PETROL ENGINE EMISSIONS Three-way catalytic converter (catalytic exhaust pipe) The exhaust system is equipped with a catalyst made up of noble metal alloys; it is housed in a stainless steel container capable of withstanding the very high operating temperatures. The catalyst converts the unburnt hydrocarbons, the carbon monoxide and the nitric oxides found in the exhaust gases (though in small amounts, thanks to the electronic-injection ignition systems) into non-polluting substances.
Page 8 DEVICES FOR REDUCING DIESEL ENGINE EMISSIONS Oxidising catalytic converter This device converts the polluting substances in the exhaust gas (carbon monoxide, unburnt hydro- carbons and particulates) into harmless substances, thus reducing the smokiness and smell associat- ed with diesel engine exhaust fumes. The catalytic converter consists of a stainless steel case containing a honeycomb ceramic core in which there is the precious metal that carries out the catalysing action.
Page 9 The texts, illustrations and technical specifications contained in this handbook refer to the car at the time of going to press. As part of our ongoing effort to improve our products, LANCIA may introduce technical modifications during pro- duction and therefore technical specifications and fittings may be altered without prior notice.
Page 10 SYMBOLS DANGER SYMBOLS Special coloured labels have been Battery Coil attached near or actually on some of Corrosive fluid. High voltage. the components of your THESIS. These labels bear symbols that remind you of the precautions to be taken as regards that particular component.
Page 11 PROHIBITION SYMBOLS WARNING SYMBOLS Battery Catalytic converter Engine Keep away from naked Do not park over inflam- Use only the oil specified flames. mable materials. in section “Capacities”. chapter: “Protecting the emission control devices”. Battery Keep away from chil- dren. Power steering Unleaded petrol vehicle Heat shields - belts -...
Page 12 CONTENTS GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAR DRIVING YOUR CAR IN AN EMERGENCY CAR MAINTENANCE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS INDEX...

Page 13: Getting To Know Your Car

Page 14 1) Front door air outlets 20) Trip meter reset button (long pressure)/Button for deleting failure messages on the display (short pres- 2) Side window vents sure) 3) Side vents 21) Ignition switch 4) Instrument panel 22) CONNECT controls on the steering wheel (for con- trol description see the following pages) 5) Windscreen vent 23) Horn...
Page 15 CONNECT INFOTELEMATIC SYSTEM The key for this figure is on pages 16-17. fig. 2 L0A6001b...
Page 16 The following pages describe the system controls and main functions. The Lancia navigation CONNECT CONTROLS (fig. 2) The car is provided with a special system helps driver while supplement dealing with CONNECT The CONNECT system functions...
Page 17 Legend Short push Long push (more than 2 seconds) (less than 2 seconds) – 1 – SOS Assistance services and functions – Slot for navigator CD-ROM or Audio CD – Slot for cassette – 4 – CD Eject navigator CD-ROM or Audio CD –...
Page 18 Legend Short push Long push (less than 2 seconds) (more than 2 seconds) 14 – DARK DARK mode actuation: the display is completely darkened – £ Forwarding the phone call set Refusing the incoming phone call 15 – Accepting the incoming call Ending the ongoing call 16 –...
Page 19 CONTROLS ON THE STEERING B - Audio source selection: FM1, Cassette mode: fast tape rewind FM2, FM3-AS, MW, LW, CC, CD, with return to beginning of lis- WHEEL (fig. 3) CDC, TV tened track or to previous track The main CONNECT function C - Turning down the volume CD/CDC mode: selection of controls are duplicated on the steer-...
Page 20 REMOTE CONTROL (fig. 4-5) The remote control functions can B - Turning down the volume be switched off and on again by C - Turning up the volume The infrared-ray remote control selecting the corresponding item of controls certain main functions of D - Radio mode: the SETUP function (set-up).
Page 21 E - Radio mode: – long push = actuation of the CD mode: – short push = search for the “Scan” function with scanning of – short push = selection of pre- first radio station that can be the stations in the selected radio vious track tuned at a lower frequency band starting from the higher...
Page 22 AUDIO AND TV FUNCTION: CONTROL SUMMARIZING TABLE The TV and audio system (FM/AM radio and Cassette/CD/CDC player) functions can be switched on/off without dis- tinction by means of the controls on the CONNECT, the steering wheel or the remote control. To make it easier getting acquainted with the controls, a table is shown below with the various functions and their respective control buttons.
Page 23 Function CONNECT buttons Steering wheel buttons Remote control buttons Long push on button N Long push on button ˙ Actuation of the Long push on SCAN+ button “Scan” function with scanning of the stations in the selected radio band starting from the higher frequency ones Long push on button ¯...
Page 24 Function CONNECT buttons Steering wheel buttons Remote control buttons Short pressure of button ¯ Short pressure of button ¯ Search for previous track Short push on SCAN- button while playing a CD Selection of CD in CDC Press buttons 1 to 6 –...

Page 25: Ignition Switch

Page 26 To set this mode, refer to the CON- vated automatically (“Autoclose” the battery might even explode. NECT supplement provided with function). Contact a Lancia Dealership. In the car. any case, refer to paragraph “Jump starting”. In an emergency The steering column lock cannot be...

Page 27: The Lancia Code System

Page 28 STOP for longer than 30 seconds. If the prob- lem persists, contact your Lancia Dealership. 2) If the symbol stays on, this means that the code has not been recognised.
Page 29 B - The mechanical key code to be tem can be set in such a way that – remote door opening/closing; given to the Lancia Dealership when the door opening button is when ordering duplicate keys. pressed, only the driver’s door or all –...
Page 30 The code numbers written on the The key (fig. 9) has: – led F (where required) indicating CODE card must be kept in a safe code sending to the electronic alarm – metal insert A that can be place (not in the car). system receiver.
Page 31 After activating the dead The metal insert A (fig. 10) of the Take the greatest care lock device it will be when pressing button B key operates: impossible to get out of (fig. 10), to avoid that the – ignition switch; the passenger compartment: for metal insert A can cause injury or this reason this device must be...
Page 32 Remote control By pressing button C, also the IMPORTANT The remote control alarm system will be switched off; by operation depends on different fac- The remote control is built into the pressing button D, the alarm system tors, such as possible interference key and has three buttons C, D and E will be switched on and the key led with electromagnetic waves emitted...
Page 33 The remote control allows to control the functions that can be modified directly by the user, through the CONNECT set- ting menu, or by the Lancia Dealership. The following table lists the system options and the settings provided when the car is delivered to the customer.
Page 34 Functions that can be Requested function Action performed on the Standard settings modified remote control Single short pressure – Electronic alarm of button D (fig. 9) switching on – Door and boot locking – Ceiling lights switching off Subsequent double short –...
Page 35 The metal insert of the key allows to control the functions that can be modified directly by the user, by means of the CONNECT setting menu, or by the Lancia Dealership. The following table lists the system options and the settings pro- vided when the car is delivered to the customer.
Page 36 ACTUATION LOGIC OF THE BOOT LOCK BY MEANS OF THE REMOTE CONTROL Bound to central Not bound to the central door locking door locking Central door locking system condition Press the boot button Press the remote Press the remote Press the remote control button control button control button...
Page 37 ACTUATION LOGIC OF THE BOOT LOCK BY MEANS OF THE METAL INSERT OF THE KEY Bound to the central Not bound to the central door locking door locking Central door locking system condition Operation to open Press the tailgate Turn the key clock- Turn the key clock- Turn the key clock- the boot...
Page 38 OPENING THE TAILGATE When tailgate opening is actuated, AUTOMATICALLY ACTUATED the alarm system disconnects the FUNCTIONS The tailgate can be opened from boot sensor and the direction indica- The system automatically controls the outside by pressing the remote tors flash twice (except for the ver- the following functions (settings that control button E (fig.
Page 39 KEY BATTERY REPLACEMENT Used batteries pollute To replace the battery: the environment. Dispose If the remote control battery is run – press button B (fig. 11) and of them in the special down, the symbol Y will appear on move the metal insert A to open containers as specified by current the instrument display, together position;...

Page 40: Electronic Alarm

Page 41 “ALARM found a fault. Contact a Lancia FAULT”. Dealership. IMPORTANT When operating the central door locking with the metal insert of the key, the alarm is not activated.
Page 42 SWITCHING THE ALARM OFF VOLUMETRIC PROTECTION To ensure correct opera- tion of the volumetric pro- To switch the alarm off, press the Do not leave passengers or pets in tection system, before acti- key button A (fig. 14). the parked car and completely close vating the alarm, check that win- the windows and the sunroof to The following actions will be car-...
Page 43 IMPORTANT The anti-lifting sen- According to the markets, the FUNCTIONS THAT CAN BE sor shall be deactivated after about 1 alarm can operate the siren and the DEACTIVATED minute from turning the key to direction indicators (for about 25 OR MODIFIED STOP.
Page 44 The functions that can be modified MINISTERIAL HOMOLOGATION EASY ENTRY/EXIT through the CONNECT system In the respect of the legislation in SYSTEM menu are: force in each country in the matter – boot lock release by actuating of radio-frequency devices, please Versions provided with electric central door opening (*);...
Page 45 RECOGNITION himself so that the car can recognize taneous switching off of the elec- him, allowing him to get into the car tronic alarm SYSTEM (KEYLESS and start the engine without having – button C for remote actuation of to use the key. SYSTEM) central door locking, boot locking In any case, the CID device is...
Page 46 The emergency key actuates: The CID device check is carried out To switch off the front passenger’s when the button inside the door airbag and the rear side bags, use – the front door locks handle or on the boot is pressed: if the emergency key included in the –...
Page 47 It is advised to always “GARAGE” POSITION IMPORTANT Do not remove the carry about with you the battery from the CID device until (EMERGENCY ACTUATION) CID device, avoiding to when its replacement is possible. During emergency or servicing leave it unguarded inside the Where system is unable to identify operations, the CID device shall be passenger compartment, because...
Page 48 For an emergency engine start up KNOB FOR ACTUATING MAR position proceed as follows: INSTRUMENT PANEL This is the running position and AND ENGINE START-UP – Lay the CID device into the emer- corresponds to: instrument panel on gency seat A (fig. 21) and steering column lock off.
Page 49 cessive rotation of knob A (fig. 22) Engine stop IMPORTANT User is not authorised to the STOP position, and it will not to move the car if the start-up knob is To switch the engine off, turn the be possible to restart the car until a not turned to the position MAR.
Page 50 It is possible to set unlocking of dri- the unlocking with the emergency key “Jump starting”); then, contact a ver’s door only or the contemporary Lancia Dealership to have the bat- F (fig. 19). unlocking of all the doors, by the set- tery recharged.
Page 51 LOCKING THE DOOR AND TAILGATE OPENING AUTOCLOSE FUNCTION LEAVING THE CAR (with the (AUTOMATIC LOCKING If the boot shall be opened from identification system disabled) OF DOORS, BOOT, outside, with the doors locked, it is AND FUEL FILLER FLAP) enough to get near the boot with the To lock doors when system func- CID device and press the boot but- tions are disabled, proceed as fol-...
Page 52 – If there is a fault in the identifi- The Autoclose function can be CENTRAL LOCKING/OPENING cation system (Keyless System). influenced by the presence of elec- OF WINDOWS AND SUNROOF tromagnetic noises; in these cases – If the CID device battery is flat. When central door locking is lock the doors with the remote con- switched on/off, also the central...
Page 53 CID device (e.g. into a pocket). whereas the other doors remain IMPORTANT In case of fault, con- locked, thus preventing un-autho- tact your Lancia Dealership. rized persons from getting into the car. In this case, the led on the dri- Before and during auto- ver’s door panel lights up (green...
Page 54 Dispose this is required. reason, your Lancia of them in the special Dealership, bringing with you all containers as specified by current the keys and CID devices in your legislation. Keep batteries away...
Page 55 To replace the battery: IMPORTANT Although the pres- DOORS ence of electromagnetic waves is not – remove the small cover A (fig. 26) harmful to the CID device, it can nev- by levering at point B ertheless influence battery life cycle. –...
Page 56 To unlock, turn the key clockwise The car is fitted with power locks In an emergency (flat battery or 1; to lock, turn the key counter- that control the mechanical parts at electric system failure), doors can be clockwise 2. door opening.
Page 57 The front door leds are also used as In this case, the driver’s door led Deadlock device deterrent leds for the alarm system; comes on with green light, whereas The deadlock device enables to dis- as a consequence, they will flash the leds on the other doors will connect mechanically the internal when the alarm system is on or the...
Page 58 With dead lock OPENING/CLOSING FROM A led is located near each door device on, pressing the handle to make it easy to find the THE INSIDE external handle button of handle in the dark. The leds light up To open the door even when the one of the doors while unlocking for about 2 minutes after turning the lock is locked, pull handle A (fig.
Page 59 Disabling rear door CHILD LOCK IMPORTANT After engaging the lock, check by trying to open a rear locking/unlocking controls To prevent opening the rear doors door with the internal handle. from the inside. To disable rear door locking/un- locking controls, press the driver's Engage by inserting the tip of the ig- door button A (fig.
Page 60 AUTOCLOSE FUNCTION LOCK RELEASE IN CASE OF In any case, door open- from outside (AUTOMATIC LOCKING ACCIDENT depends on the door con- WITH KEYLESS SYSTEM In case of collision with actuation ditions after collision: RECOGNITION SYSTEM) of the inertia switch, the door locks deformed doors cannot very often are automatically released to allows On versions equipped with Keyless...

Page 61: Front Seats

Page 62 fig. 41 - Electrically adjustable Seat position adjustment - Head restraint position adjust- seats, position memorization and control A (fig. 42) ment - control B (fig. 43) heating 7 - Head restraint raising 1 - Front raising A - Height and back and forth 8 - Head restraint lowering.
Page 63 Control C (fig. 40) STORING THE DRIVER’S SEAT Adjust the position of the seat, head restraint, external rear view POSITIONS (fig. 46) 5 - Lumbar support increase mirrors and steering wheel by means The system allows to store and of the relevant controls, then press 6 - Lumbar support decrease recall three different driver’s seat for about 3 seconds any of buttons...
Page 64 Stored position are recalled only if If the engine is started during the To store the position proceed as the required position is different recalling stage, seat moving will be follows: from the current one and is not pos- stopped; once this stage is over the –...
Page 65 Recalling the “parking” position IMPORTANT The “parking” posi- COMFORT SEATS (fig. 47) tion memorisation and recall can of the external rear view mirror Button A on front Comfort Seats only be performed with ignition key on passenger side enables to actuate the respective con- at MAR.
Page 66 HEAD RESTRAINTS (fig. 48) Remember that the head ARMREST (fig. 49) restraints should Where provided, front head The armrest A can be adjusted up adjusted to support the restraints can be adjusted electrical- or down to three different positions. back of your head and not your ly, so as to adapt to the driver’s To lift the armrest, pull it from neck.

Page 67: Rear Seats

Page 68 ARMREST – button for opening/closing the HEATING (fig. 55) electric sunshade Lower the armrest to the position To switch side seat heating on, turn shown for use by pulling the lever A – current socket knob A (left-hand seat) or B (right- (fig.
Page 69 COMFORT SEATS – for approx. 3 minutes with key F – Electric sunshade control but- removed or turned to STOP and ton. Side Comfort seats are fitted with with door open. independent control buttons for IMPORTANT To allow system heating, lumbar adjustment, mas- Armrest compartment control but- automatic configuration, press the sage and adjusting function;...
Page 70 The adaptive function makes it Left-hand seat adjustment Left-hand seat heating possible to adapt the seat back to the (fig. 57) Button D (fig. 56) passenger thus improving comfort 7 – Lumbar support increase To switch seat heating on, turn and back support.

Page 71: Steering Wheel

Page 72: rearview mirrors.

Page 73 Press switch A (fig. 62) to adjust If the mirrors make it Automatic rearview mirror the mirror in the four directions difficult to get through realignment (fig. 63). After adjusting, turn switch narrow gaps and in auto- Rearview mirror position is stored, A back to position 0 to prevent mov- matic car washes, fold them from together with the steering wheel...

Page 74: Electric Windows

Page 75 CONTROLS Front windows C – Rear left window opening/clos- ing, “continuous automatic” opera- Electric windows work with igni- Press buttons A or B to open/close tion just during window opening tion key at MAR. the required window (driver or pas- senger side).
Page 76 Pressing briefly the button the win- MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC CENTRALISED WINDOW AND dow “jerks”, whereas a prolonged OPERATION SUNROOF OPENING/CLOSING pressing makes the window opening SYSTEM Front and rear window winders or closing in “automatic and continu- can be operated both automatically Centralised window and sunroof ous”...

Page 77: Seat Belts

Page 78 When the car is parked on a steep When the rear seats are not occu- ADJUSTING THE HEIGHT OF slope the reel mechanism may block; pied, use the spaces provided in the THE FRONT SEAT BELTS this is normal. The reel mechanism cushion to stow the belt buckles (fig.
Page 79 The preten- sioners should be replaced at a A small amount of smoke may be Lancia Dealership as this date produced. This smoke is in no way approaches. toxic and presents no fire hazard.
Page 80 (fig. 73). Do not use starting. face or low obstacles such as any objects (pegs, stoppers, etc.) kerbs, etc. Contact a Lancia to keep the belts away from the Dealership for any assistance. body. For maximum safety,...
Page 81 Always impediments. contact a Lancia Dealership. 2) After a serious accident, replace If the belt has been subjected to the belt being worn at that time, heavy stress, for example after an even if it does not appear damaged.
Page 82 CARRYING SERIOUS DANGER For optimal protection in the event Should it be ab- of a crash, all passengers must be CHILDREN solutely necessary seated wearing adequate to carry a baby on the front pas- restraint systems. SAFELY senger seat with a child's seat with This is especially relevant for chil- the cradle facing backwards, de- dren.
Page 83 (fig. 77). Group 1 weight 9-18 kg We recommend using Lineaccessori Lancia child restraint systems for Group 2 weight 15-25 kg each weight group. These systems Group 3 weight 22-36 kg were specifically designed and tested for Lancia cars.
Page 84 GROUP 1 There are child restraint GROUP 2 for groups 0 and 1 which Children from 9 to 18 kg are to be Children from 15 to 25 kg can be are fastened with the car seated facing forward in child seats secured directly with the car seat seat belts by means of an attach- with front cushion.
Page 85 European Standard ECE-R44 for the specified “Groups” B = Built-in restraint system approved for this range of weight (integral child’s seat opt.) L = Suitable for certain child’s restraint systems available at Lineaccessori Lancia for the specified group fig. 80...
Page 86 Below is a summary of the rules 4) Always check the seat belt is PRESETTING FOR MOUNTING of safety to be followed for carry- well fastened by pulling the web- THE “ISOFIX TYPE” CHILD ing children: bing. RESTRAINT SYSTEM 1) Child restraint system should be 5) Only one child is to be strapped THESIS is preset for mounting the fitted on the rear seat as this is the...
Page 87 Only use Isofix type child restraint Mount child Mounting the ISOFIX TYPE systems specifically designed, tested restraint system only with child restraint system and approved for this car. the car stationary. The Groups 0 and 0+ Isofix child restraint system is properly anchored to the mount- For children included in this ing brackets when clicks are...
Page 88 For proper mounting, proceed as – identify the brackets A (fig. 83) Group 1 follows: and mount the child restraint system When the child grows up and with the retainers C (fig. 83) aligned – remove the upper tether on the reaches the next weight group to the brackets;...
Page 89 For proper mounting, proceed as FRONT AND SIDE It consists of an instantly inflatable follows: bag housed in a special compart- AIRBAGS ment located: – remove the upper tether on the back of the child's restraint system; – in the centre of the steering wheel The car is equipped with front on the driver’s side A (fig.
Page 90 The front airbag (driver and pas- The cushion immediately inflates, Front air bags are designed to pro- senger) has been designed to protect placing itself as a soft protective bar- tect car’s passengers in front/angled the occupants in the event of head- rier between the body of the front crashes and therefore non-activation on/angled collision of medium-high...
Page 91 MANUALLY DEACTIVATING PASSENGER’S FRONT AIRBAG SEVERE DANGER: THE PASSENGER’S FRONT passenger’s airbag AIRBAG equipped with designed and calibrated to protect a front passenger’s airbag, do not The passenger’s front airbag can be person wearing seat belts. place the child restraint seat on deactivated if it is absolutely neces- the front seat.
Page 92 Only turn the switch 2) Passenger’s front airbag deacti- IMPORTANT To receive the best vated (position OFF F): instru- when the engine is not system protection in the event of an ment panel warning light F on. A running and the ignition accident, you have to seat in proper key is removed.
Page 93 SIDE AIRBAGS – the window bags, which are “cur- In the event of side collisions at low tain” cushions located behind the speed, the restraining action of the (SIDE BAG - WINDOW BAG) side coverings of the roof and cov- seat belts is sufficient and the airbag Purpose of the side airbags is to ered by proper finishings such to...
Page 94 Stop the car and IMPORTANT When the airbag is contact Lancia Dealership to have fired it emits a small amount of the system checked immediately. powder and smoke. This is not...
Page 95 THE REAR SIDE BAGS 1) Passenger’s front airbag active airbag system must exclusively be (where provided) (position ON Õ ): instrument panel carried out at a Lancia Dealership. À warning light off. Do not carry Side bags, protecting the chest of If you are having the car scrapped, children on the front seat.
Page 96 Stop the car and in a collision. the car is stationary if it is hit by contact Lancia Dealership to have another vehicle travelling at suit- the system checked immediately. able speed. As a consequence, never sit children in the front seat, even if the car is not moving.
Page 97 When the ignition key is The airbag is set to be The airbag does not turned to MAR (passenger fired in the event of colli- replace seat belts but front airbag and rear side sions which are greater rather increases their bag deactivation switch at ON), than the pretensioner settings.
Page 98 LIGHT SWITCH LIGHT SWITCH (fig. 94) Dipped beam headlights It has 5 positions: These lights come on when you AND STEERING turn ring A to 2. 0 - outside lights off COLUMN STALKS 6 - side/taillights Parking lights The devices and services controlled 2 - dipped beam headlights With ignition key at STOP or by light switch and steering column...
Page 99 Automatic switching on/off With automatic switching on acti- IMPORTANT When switching on vated and switching off control the headlights automatically, it is When ring A is turned to AUTO given by the sensor, main beam possible to switch on the front and and the ignition key is at MAR, headlights go off followed after rear fog lights.
Page 100 At each operation of the tact a Lancia Dealership as soon as for evaluating light intensity in run- stalk, the staying on of the lights is ning direction in order to recognize possible.
Page 101 After activating the device, the set LEFT-HAND STALK If main beam headlights time can be extended also within 2 are on (left stalk for- The left-hand stalk controls the minutes from when the engine is wards), they will turn on external lights and the direction turned off by pulling the stalk.
Page 102 IMPORTANT This operation will RIGHT-HAND STALK 4 - Fast temporary (unstable posi- flash the main beam headlights. tion): when releasing the stalk it The right-hand stalk controls all Follow the Highway Code to prevent returns to 0 stopping the windscreen the washer/wiper controls.
Page 103 The wiper stops working a few IMPORTANT Under certain con- The rain sensor is automatically strokes after releasing the stalk; a ditions, when headlight washers are switched on when the stalk is taken further “cleaning stroke”, after a on, the climate control system acti- to position 1 (fig.
Page 104 Turning the knurled ring A (fig. Operating the windscreen washer When the rain sensor is again acti- 100) it is possible to increase the with the rain sensor activated (stalk vated in this way, at least one wind- sensitivity of the rain sensor, obtain- at position 1) the normal washing screen wiper stroke occurs, even if ing a quicker change from stationary...
Page 105 – straks of water caused by worn vate continuous wiping (1 wiper blades speed); contact a Lancia Dealership as soon as possible. – difference between day and night(the human eye is more dis- turbed at night by the wet surface of the glass).

Page 106: Instrument Panel

Page 107 JTD VERSIONS (fig. 102) fig. 102 L0A0231b A - Engine coolant temperature C - Multifunction display for sym- F - Flash consumption gauge gauge with overheating warning bols/messages/failure indications G - Warning lights light and CONNECT info repetition H - Kilometre counter (and trip B - Speedometer D - Engine rev.
Page 108 INSTRUMENTS REV COUNTER (fig. 104) IMPORTANT The hazard sectors can present different widths and dif- If the needle is in the hazard sector ferent full scale values according to (the section with red lines) it shows the various car versions. that the engine is over-revving.
Page 109 It starts stop the engine immediately and approximately 10 litres of fuel in the signalling the temperature when this contact a Lancia Dealership. tank. reaches approximately 50 °C. IMPORTANT The needle may The needle should usually be on...
Page 110 IMPORTANT Refuelling shall FLASH CONSUMPTION GAUGE The gauge needle has the following always be performed with engine off position: (fig. 107) and ignition key to STOP. If the – value 0 l/100 km with car sta- Gauge A shows the flash consump- engine is off but the key is to MAR, tionary tion: to prevent excessively variable...
Page 111 KILOMETRE COUNTER (AND Press button A (fig. 109) for at MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY least two seconds to reset the trip TRIP METER) AND AUTOMATIC (fig. 110) meter. GEARBOX The multifunction display shows When pressing the button for less all the useful information necessary The following information is shown than two seconds, failure message when driving, more particularly:...
Page 112 Car conditions CONNECT information Driver’s aiding system information Information managed by CONNECT: – Scheduled servicing – Cruise Control info – AUDIO function info – Engine oil level (JTD versions – Radar Cruise Control info – NAVIGATOR info (symbol repe- only) tition) The language used for indicating –...
Page 113 START-UP CHECKS When turning the ignition key to MAR to start the engine, the system starts monitoring the main car sys- tems, the engine oil level (JTD ver- sions only) and indicates the next Scheduled Servicing. Check stage Message Meaning of the message Remarks Warning light/symbol –...
Page 114 Use the dipstick to check that OIL LEVEL could exceed the oil level is not exceeding the maximum the MAX reference line If oil level is exceed- ing the MAX refer- ence line contact a Lancia Dealership as soon as possible...
Page 115 EXPIRED: 0 km perform the Scheduled programmed Scheduled Service Service operation operation Contact a Lancia Dealership as soon SCHEDULED Indicates that one year has as possible to carry out the pro- SERVICE past since last Scheduled...
Page 116 INSTRUMENT GENERAL NOTES Failure indications displayed on the multifunction display are divid- Failure indications shown on the PANEL WARNING ed into two categories: very serious multifunction display together with failures and serious failures. The LIGHTS AND buzzer sounding and warning light message and the warning indication (if any), are accompanied by spe- MESSAGES...
Page 117 The message and the warning indi- LEFT DIRECTION SIDE/TAILLIGHTS Ÿ cation corresponding to serious fail- INDICATOR The warning light comes ures are displayed alternately for on when side/taillights or The warning light comes few seconds. This “cycle” is repeat- parking lights are on. on when left direction indicators are ed for about 20 seconds and then on and, together with right direction...
Page 118 The warning light goes off if the number of cases, they could trig- fault disappears but it is however ger accidentally. Stop the car and stored by the system. contact Lancia Dealership to have the system checked immediately.
Page 119 In these conditions it is possible to continue driving without however requiring heavy effort or high speed from the engine. In any case, contact a Lancia Dealership as soon as If, turning the ignition key to MAR, the U warn- possible.
Page 120 ABS system. It is however recommended to con- tact a Lancia Dealership as soon as possible. In this case heavy brak- In the event of instrument panel ing may cause the rear...
Page 121 In the event of instrument panel ment panel display, contact warning light failure, the warning immediately Lancia light on the multifunction display Dealership. comes on together with message “ESP INDICATOR FAULT”: con- tact a Lancia Dealership as soon as possible.
Page 122 MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY Screen A (failure message) and B (warning message) (fig. 111) are an WARNING LIGHTS AND example of the indications displayed MESSAGES alternately. The following pages give a list of monitored car systems or parame- ters and the corresponding symbols, failure and warning messages that could be shown on the multifunction display.
Page 123 Instrument dimmer Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Remarks – DIMMER Indicates the set lighting INSTRUMENT level (for instrument panel, display and buttons) Steering wheel lock Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Remarks STEERING LOCKED WHEN Steering will be locked when –...
Page 124 Doors Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action DOOR OPEN The door indicated by the symbol Close the door indicated is not closed correctly DOORS OPEN The doors indicated by the sym- Close the doors indicated bol are not closed correctly...
Page 125 Window anti-trap safety system Message Meaning of the message Action Warning light/symbol WINDOW ANTI-TRAP Front left-hand window Contact a Lancia SYSTEM FAULT anti-trap system sensor Dealership FRONT LEFT fault GO TO DEALER WINDOW ANTI-TRAP Front right-hand window...
Page 126 Lancia CODE, Keyless System (CID device) and alarm system Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action ALARM FAULT Alarm system Contact a Lancia GO TO DEALER failure Dealership THEFT Theft has been See paragraph “Electronic ATTEMPTED attempted alarm” VEHICLE PROTECTION...
Page 127 When outside temperature is high symbol displaying can be unper- ceivable è PLUG PREHEATING Plug preheating system Contact a Lancia FAULT fault Dealership GO TO DEALER Fuel level Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message...
Page 128 SWITCH OFF ENGINE, sioners could not trigger in the event of DO NOT PROCEED collision or, in a restricted number of cases, they could trigger accidentally. Stop the car and contact Lancia Deal- ership to have the system checked im- mediately.
Page 129 System setting in progress – UNAVAILABLE ABS SYSTEM FAULT ABS system failure: Contact a Lancia Dealership GO TO DEALER in this case the braking system keeps its effectiveness, but without the potential offered by the ABS system. Drive with the...
Page 130 Meaning of the message x > EBD SYSTEM FAULT EBD system failure Stop the car and contact a SWITCH OFF ENGINE, Lancia Dealership DO NOT PROCEED The car is fitted with an electronic brakeforce distributor (EBD). The turning on at the same time of >...
Page 131 Message Meaning of the message Action EPB FAULT Electric parking brake Contact a GO TO DEALER failure Lancia Dealership EPB INDICATOR FAULT Electric parking brake Contact a GO TO DEALER warning light failure Lancia Dealership EOBD (engine control system) Message...
Page 132 Car speed Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action SPEED LIMIT Car speed is exceeding Reduce car speed EXCEEDED the limit set on the CONNECT SLOW DOWN Cruise Control Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Remarks Ü CRUISE CONTROL The Cruise Control (constant speed adjusting device) is activated...
Page 133 à RADAR CRUISE CONTROL Radar Cruise Control Contact a FAULT failure Lancia Dealership GO TO DEALER à RCC FAULT DIRTY LENS System failure is due to radar Contact a GO TO DEALER sensor “blindness”...
Page 134 (COMFORTRONIC) failure DEALER SLOWLY AUTOMATIC TRANSMIS- Electronic automatic Turn the engine off and contact SION OIL TEMP. HIGH transmission (COMFORTRONIC) a Lancia Dealership SWITCH OFF ENGINE, DO NOT PROCEED is too hot Power steering (VARIOSTEER) Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message...
Page 135 Headlamp inclination adjustment system Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action HEADLAMP INCLINATION Headlamp inclination Contact a Lancia ADJUSTMENT adjustment system Dealership SYSTEM failure FAULT GO TO DEALER Brake fluid level Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action...
Page 136 Engine oil pressure SENSOR FAULT sensor failure GO TO DEALER Low battery charge Message Meaning of the message Action Warning light/symbol ALTERNATOR FAULT Current generator Drive slowly to a Lancia GO TO failure resulting in Dealership DEALER SLOWLY poor car battery charge...
Page 137 Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action WORN BRAKE PADS Brake pads are worn Contact a Lancia GO TO DEALER Dealership IMPORTANT Since the car is fit- ted with wear sensors for the front brake pads, when changing them,...
Page 138 “Car maintenance” Side/taillights Message Meaning of the message Action Warning light/symbol SIDE LIGHT FAULT Front left-hand side light Contact a Lancia FRONT LEFT doesn’t turn on Dealership GO TO DEALER SIDE LIGHT FAULT Front right-hand side light Contact a Lancia FRONT RIGHT doesn’t turn on...
Page 139 Direction indicators Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action INDICATOR LIGHT FAULT Front left-hand direction Contact a Lancia FRONT LEFT indicator doesn’t turn on Dealership GO TO DEALER INDICATOR LIGHT FAULT Front right-hand direction indica- Contact a Lancia FRONT RIGHT tor doesn’t turn on...
Page 140 Number plate light Message Meaning of the message Action Warning light/symbol NUMBER PLATE LIGHT One or both number plate lights Contact a Lancia FAULT GO TO DEALER don’t turn on Dealership Inertia switch (Fuel cut-off switch) Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message...
Page 141 Lancia SENSOR FAULT failure Dealership as soon as possible GO TO DEALER Parking sensors Warning light/symbol Message Meaning of the message Action PARKING SENSOR One or more parking sensor Contact a Lancia FAULT failure Dealership GO TO DEALER...
Page 142 Twilight sensor Message Meaning of the message Action Warning light/symbol TWILIGHT SENSOR The twilight sensor, for switching Contact a Lancia FAULT on/off automatically the external Dealership GO TO DEALER lights is faulty Engine oil level sensor (JTD versions) Message Meaning of the message...

Page 143: Climate Control System

Page 144 1 - Windscreen defrosting/demist- The climate control system can be The air is let into the passenger ing vents operated in one of the following compartment through a set of vents ways: on the dashboard, on the front door 2 - Front side windows defrost- panels, on the rear central tunnel, on ing/demisting vents –...
Page 145 DIRECTIONAL AND The amount of air is adjusted with Fixed vents C (fig. 114) for control B: demisting or defrosting the front ADJUSTABLE VENTS O = all open side windows are located at the (fig. 113-114-115-116-117) dashboard ends. ç = all closed. The vents can be turned upwards or downwards and towards the left and the right with control A...
Page 146 AIR VENTS Air vents (open) are actually used IMPORTANT When the outside only when the control for directing temperature is very high (over 30°C), The car is fitted with three air air flow on the instrument panel is to reach the selected temperature as vents set on the dashboard: two operated.

Page 147: Control System

Page 148 IMPORTANT During air distribu- The following parameters and At each turning off, the system tion automatic management, all the functions can be adjusted manually: after storing control and function air distribution button leds are off. conditions, sets up the open recircu- –...
Page 149 INITIALISING THE AIR FRONT CONTROL PANEL (fig. 121) CONDITIONING CONTROL UNIT Whenever the battery is electrically connected again or it is reloaded after being completely flat or after replacing one of the protection fuses, to restore the correct operation of the air conditioning, of the door locking and of the ESP system.
Page 150 1 - Button for automatic system 8 - Inside temperature adjustment 15 - Button for turning on/off fast selection (driver side) knob (front passenger side) defrosting/demisting of windscreen, front side windows, rear window, 2 - Inside temperature adjustment 9 - Button for automatic system external rearview mirrors and wind- knob (driver side) selection (front passenger side)
Page 151 BACK CONTROL PANEL 4 - System status display (AUTO, 8 - Button for fan speed increase FULL AUTO) (fig. 122) 9 - Button for air distribution 5 - Button for automatic system through front back vents 1 - Inside temperature adjustment selection (back-seat passengers) knob (back-seat passengers) 2 - Display for set inside tempera-...
Page 152 HOW TO USE THE CLIMATE When the system is working auto- The temperature, air distribution matically, the only possible manual and fan speed settings can be CONTROL SYSTEM functions are: changed at any time during auto- The system can be switched on in matic system operation.
Page 153 CONTROLS The set temperatures are shown on – HI function (maximum heating): the displays set near the respective this is switched on by turning the Knobs for adjusting air tempera- knobs. temperature knob to the right ture (2, 8 fig. 121 - 1 fig. 122) beyond the maximum value (32 °C).
Page 154 To switch this function off, turn Buttons for adjusting front air flow shared between the temperature knob to the left and footwell vents (warmer air) distribution (10, 18 fig. 121) set the required temperature. and central and side dashboard Press these buttons to manually vents and the rear vents (cooler air).
Page 155 When a combined function is set, if Buttons for adjusting rear air When a combined function is set, if a button is pressed the main func- a button is pressed the main func- distribution (6, 9 fig. 122) tion of the button pressed is activat- tion of the button pressed is activat- When the back control panel is ed, together with those already set.
Page 156 Buttons for adjusting fan speed When the fan minimum speed is AUTO buttons set up (one bar on), by keeping (13, 14 fig. 121 – 7, 8 fig. 122) (automatic operation) pressed for at least two seconds but- (1, 9 fig. 121 - 5 fig. 122) Press respectively front control ton 14 (fig.
Page 157 Should the system, as a result of MONO button REAR button (rear control panel manual settings, no longer be able to (set temperature and air distrib- activation) (11 fig. 121) assure the selected temperature in ution alignment) (16 fig. 121) Press the REAR button to switch the various passenger compartment the rear control panel on and to cut...
Page 158 The climate control system can be – forced deactivation off (recircula- In addition, if the compressor is on deactivated also by the rear control tion always off, air taken from the and the outside temperature is over panel, when operating: press repeat- outside), both leds on the button will 5 °C, to prevent air polluted by edly or keep pressed button 7 (fig.
Page 159 IMPORTANT The air recircula- Climate control system IMPORTANT Air at a temperature tion function will allow, according to lower than that of the outside air compressor off button (7 fig. 121) the system operation (i.e. heating or cannot be let in to the passenger Press the √...
Page 160 The air let into the passenger com- Button for fast windscreen The fast windscreen demisting/ partment cannot be cooled when the defrosting function stays on for demisting/defrosting (15 fig. 121) compressor is off. Consequently: approx. 3 minutes after the engine Press this button: the climate con- coolant temperature exceeds 50 °C trol system will automatically switch...
Page 161 Button for demisting/defrosting OFF button (system off) IMPORTANT The windows may mist up fast when the climate con- the heated rear window and The switch the climate control sys- trol system is off and in certain envi- external rearview mirrors tem off, keep pressed for at least two ronmental conditions.
Page 162 Have the filter checked at least the fan, disengage air vents and set supplying a maximum power of 24 once year Lancia air distribution from central dash- W to supply the climate control sys- Dealership, ideally at the begin- board vents only before leaving the tem fan when the car is parked with ning of the summer.

Page 163: Supplementary Heater

Page 164 – when the engine is running the 4 - In the following 50 seconds the IMPORTANT Although in a lesser system works only in “supplemen- control unit makes the fan reach quantity the heater burns fuel as the tary heater” mode. nearly its highest speed.
Page 165 This function can be activated with – ignition key at MAR “Operate now” the CONNECT (from the main – partial battery rundown The option “Operate now” enables SETUP screen) or with the remote to warm the passenger compartment control. – fuel in reserve with the engine stopped and warm The system works with this mode on –...
Page 166 The “parked-car heater” mode is During heater operation, messages IMPORTANT For safety reasons, automatically deactivated when one referred to the following conditions the timer must be programmed/con- of the following conditions takes are shown on CONNECT display: firmed at any activation and con- place: firmed not later than 24 hours since –...
Page 167 – stationary: with the “programma- – if the fuel level in the tank is low HEATER ACTIVATION/ ble heater” mode controlled by the when the timer is activated. This con- DEACTIVATION WITH THE timer, the system conditions are con- dition is indicated with a message REMOTE CONTROL (fig.
Page 168 This control is accepted by CON- – the led flashes for about 2 seconds Default activation length is 30 min- NECT only if: = the signal has not been received. utes but it can be changed through the following procedure: –...
Page 169 Number of flashes of led B Heater activation length Checking and replacing the batteries 10 minutes To check the battery charge, press 20 minutes ON or OFF: if after about 5 seconds led B comes on with orange colour it 30 minutes means that the batteries are nearly 40 minutes...
Page 170 The batteries must be replaced with OPERATION – coolant temperature lower than 30 new ones of the same type, available °C WITH ENGINE RUNNING at the usual sellers. – the climate control unit detects “Supplementary heater” mode To replace batteries: (according to sensor detected temper- atures) that fast passenger compart- This operating mode integrates the...
Page 171 CONTROLS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Maximum heat power about 5 kW HAZARD LIGHTS (fig. 124) Reduced heat power about 2,5 kW These come on when switch A is pressed, regardless of the position of Rated voltage 12 V the ignition key. Operating current 45W to 13.5V;...
Page 172 FRONT FOG LIGHTS (fig. 125) Press again button A to switch the The rear fog lights will automatically lights off. be switched off when the engine is (where provided) stopped or when switching off the IMPORTANT The use of front fog Press button A to switch the fog dipped beam headlights or the front lights 5 on (when the outside lights...
Page 173 INSTRUMENT HEATED REAR WINDOW FUEL CUT-OFF SWITCH AND DIMMER (fig. 127) (fig. 128) CIRCUIT BREAKER Turn ring A upwards or downwards Press button A to switch the heated The car is fitted with two safety when the outside lights are on to re- rear window on/off.
Page 174 If, after an accident, you Mechanical connections Anyway, door opening can smell petrol or see of outside handles are from the outside depends that the fuel feed system is active only if the doors on their conditions after leaking, do not reset the switches are locked.
Page 175 Lift cover A set at the driver's left Circuit breaker is located on the left Initialising the control units of and press button B to reset the fuel side of the boot, inside a box directly the door locks, air conditioner cut-off switch.

Page 176: Electric Parking Brake

Page 177 Automatic engagement In order to guarantee the IMPORTANT In certain cases, e.g. automatic operation of the the car is approaching an obstacle, it The parking brake is automatically handbrake, cut off the en- could be necessary to disengage the engaged whenever the engine is gine or open the driver’s side door parking brake manually without turned off and afterwards it cannot...
Page 178 “Automatic parking brake” function IMPORTANT If, after the parking Proceed as follows: release the and the press “OK”. Deactivation of brake has been disengaged, the car accelerator pedal, press and keep automatic operation can be achieved starts moving at a speed higher than button A (fig.
Page 179 Lancia Dealership because the is necessary to push manually the ing light on the multifunction display parking brake might not work.

Page 180: Manual Gearbox

Page 181 ELECTRONIC STARTING THE ENGINE MOVING OFF The engine can be started only with After starting the engine at idle and AUTOMATIC the selector to P or N (fig. 137). while keeping the brake pedal GEARBOX pressed (Shift-lock safety), shift the For safety reasons, it is advisable to gear lever to D, or to the manual (COMFORTRONIC)
Page 182 Do not tax the engine The ignition key can be extracted IMPORTANT In case of emer- until it has not reached from the ignition switch only when gency (failures, flat battery, etc.), it operating temperature. the gear lever is at P (Key-lock safe- is possible to remove the ignition key ty) and the ignition key is at STOP.
Page 183 SELECTING THE AUTOMATIC/ AUTOMATIC OPERATION P - Parking MANUAL SEQUENTIAL To activate automatic operation, When parking the car shift the gear OPERATION move the lever to the right sector lever to this position. A gearbox (fig. 137) to one of the following device will block the driving wheels.
Page 184 Before leaving the car, R - Reverse N - Neutral check that the electric Shift the lever to R with the car This is the position to be used when parking brake (EPB) is stationary, the engine running idle the car must be pushed or towed. on.
Page 185 If the accelerator pedal is pressed Likely, during sudden braking, the The gear electronic control unit is rapidly, the gearbox selects the sporty lower gear is engaged to exploit the able to recognize hills as a result of driving programme to meet the re- engine braking action at best.
Page 186 formance is requested in terms of Winter programme Kick down acceleration and maximum speed, When starting to drive with a When maximum acceleration is this gear is almost never selected. reduced road grip (snow-covered, required (e.g. during overtaking), if The electronic automatic gearbox icy road, etc.), the shift control unit the accelerator is rapidly and fully is fitted with a device reducing...
Page 187 MANUAL SEQUENTIAL IMPORTANT If gear shift gener- If the lever is brought back to D the ates a runaway speed rate, such gear gearbox immediately starts to work OPERATION is cancelled by the electronic control automatically and will be engaged To use the manual sequential oper- unit and the driver is warned by a according to the type of driving...
Page 188 If this message is displayed during perature high the car immediately to a driving, it means that there is a fail- Lancia Dealership to have the ure in the automatic gearbox. In this This message is displayed when the failure eliminated.
Page 189 Even in this case, go to a – for about 15 seconds when the the engine with the appropriate Lancia Dealership to have the driver’s door is opened while the emergency battery according to the automatic gearbox checked.
Page 190 TOWING THE CAR Before starting towing, ESP AND ASR disengage the parking SYSTEMS IMPORTANT To tow the car brake as described in the relevant paragraph and leave the observe local current laws and fol- low the instructions contained in Keyless System CID (if any) in the ESP SYSTEM (ELECTRONIC passenger’s compartment to pre- chapter “In an emergency”.
Page 191 If the sensors detect the conditions ESP SYSTEM OPERATION The ESP core is a sensor, of aero- which might cause car skidding, the nautic origin, detecting the car rota- ESP is automatically started when ESP system affects the engine and tions around its vertical axis.
Page 192 stantly changed and controlled in ASR FUNCTION (ANTISLIP The action of the ASR function is the attempt to keep the driver’s particularly useful in the following REGULATION) direction. conditions: General The ESP system considerably – internal wheel slipping when cor- increases the car safety in several nering due to load dynamic varia- The ASR function is part of the...
Page 193 ASR function: in these instrument panel, to inform the dri- Lancia Dealership as soon as pos- conditions driving wheel slipping at ver that the car is in critical stability sible.
Page 194 The following table summarizes warning light indications according to the different operating conditions. System condition Operating or failure conditions ASR button warning light ESP warning light on instrument panel Engine start up Warning light check On for about 3 seconds On for about 4 seconds (key turned to MAR) Driving in...

Page 195: Cruise Control

Page 196 Turn ring B to position (+) to set Storing the speed Resetting the stored speed the speed reached or to increase the Move switch A to ON and take the To reset the stored speed after stored speed. car to the required speed normally. switching the device off, e.g.
Page 197 Deleting the stored speed The cruise control can be switched on at speeds – by momentarily turning ring B to The stored speed is automatically higher than 30 km/h (40 (+): each turn of the ring will corre- deleted when: to 180 km/h for 2.4 JTD 20V CAE spond to a small speed increase –...
Page 198 RADAR CRUISE The system is electronically con- Radar Cruise trolled, self-contained and, there- Control is not an anti-col- CONTROL (RCC) fore, does not require communica- lision device: it cannot tion with other vehicles or the pres- detect the presence of obstacles (where provided) ence of similar systems on the other on the road or stop the car in case...
Page 199 IMPORTANT The system can only max. speed limit controlled by the CONTROLS (fig. 144) be switched on when the car speed system is exceeded. The Radar Cruise Control is oper- ranges from 30 to 160 km/h and is ated by three controls, as well as by automatically switched off by press- the accelerator (to increase speed) ing the brake pedal.
Page 200 Ring A has four positions: When the system is on, that is, ring Every time ring B is turned, the A is in any position other than OFF, speed is increased or decreased by OFF: system off symbol ú lights up on the multi- about 1 km/h.
Page 201 Storing the speed Resetting the stored speed Reducing the stored speed Move ring A to any position other If the system has been switched off The stored speed can be decreased than OFF and take the car to the by pressing the brake pedal, the in two ways: required speed.
Page 202 Deleting the stored speed The maximum decelera- Detecting a vehicle with the tion performed by the sys- system active but not switched on The stored speed is automatically tem automatically is lim- deleted when: When the system is active (ring A ited compared to the actual brak- set to any position other than OFF), –...
Page 203 Detecting a vehicle with the icon (if any) indicating the vehicle de- tected on the traffic lane will, on the system switched on contrary, remain visible. When the system is switched on by turning ring B to (+),any vehicle run- ning in front of the car (within 130 metres) and along the running path set distance...
Page 204 multifunction display) warn the dri- Therefore, the Radar Cruise Control If the vehicle picked by the car fit- ver and invite him to resume speed does not ensure control when you are ted with Radar Cruise Control leaves control. driving in a queue; the driver must the radar sensor detection range, the therefore halt the car and start it off system could no longer be able to de-...
Page 205 If a vehicle enters the same running When cornering (average-sharp At a slip-road (fig. 151-152), if fol- path as that of the car fitted with curve), any vehicle picked by the lowing a vehicle running at a speed Radar Cruise Control and sets too Radar Cruise Control could get out of lower than that set on the car fitted close to it (fig.
Page 206 When reaching a steep cat's back The Radar Cruise Control FAULT INDICATION (fig. 153), the picked vehicle could features proper strategies System anomalies are signalled by get out of the radar detection range to keep adequate comfort the lighting of symbol à on the mul- (thus missing "picking").
Page 207 The driver will be warned by a spe- In this case, clean the sensor protec- The sensor is built into cial display message when the system tion lens, shown in fig. 150 with a wet the front bumper: impacts is deactivated because the lens is cloth;...
Page 208 Do not use the Radar IMPORTANT The Radar Cruise In the device is faulty or Cruise Control under poor Control can only be switched on when does not work, turn ring A visibility conditions (e.g.: the car speed ranges from 30 and 160 to OFF and contact a Lan- fog, heavy rain, snow, etc.), since km/h.
Page 209 PARKING SENSOR The responsibility for Front sensors can be switched on parking manoeuvres and by pressing button A (fig. 155) other dangerous manoeu- placed on the central console in The parking sensor provides dis- vres always rests with the driver. front of the gear lever;...
Page 210 10 cm. When the bumper needs re-painting or the sensor area needs touching-up with paint, contact a Lancia Dealership only. Incorrect appli- cation of paint could adversely affect the parking sensor opera- tion.
Page 211 Sensor operating range Their position covers the middle Obstacles placed in the middle area and side areas of the car’s front and are detected at a distance of less The sensors allow the system to back (fig. 158). than approx. 0.9 m (front) and 1.50 monitor the car’s front and rear m (rear).
Page 212 Obstacles placed in side areas are TOWING A TRAILER FAULT INDICATIONS detected at a distance of less than The system control unit checks all 0.6 m. the system components every time the ignition key is turned to MAR. Then, the sensors and their respec- Rear sensors are auto- tive electrical connections are con- matically switched off...

Page 213: Interior Equipment

Page 214 To switch the courtesy lights on REAR CEILING LIGHT DOOR PUDDLE LIGHTS and off, press the respective buttons (fig. 160) (fig. 161) B. The courtesy lights will automat- This ceiling light includes a central A light is provided in the lower part ically go out after about 15 minutes light and two courtesy lights.
Page 215 REARVIEW MIRROR LIGHTS SUN VISORS (fig. 163) COURTESY MIRRORS (fig. 164) (fig. 162) The sun visors can swing up or They are fitted on the back of the down or be pivoted sideways. sun visors: they can be accessed by The lower part of the external rotating the visors and lifting the rearview mirrors incorporate a light...
Page 216 FRONT ASHTRAY AND CIGAR Always verify that the REAR ASHTRAYS (fig. 167) cigar lighter has been LIGHTER Two ashtrays are provided for rear switched off. seats: they are incorporated into rear The ashtray and cigar lighter are door panels. protected by a single flap. Press the flap in the point shown (fig.
Page 217 GLOVE COMPARTMENT The lower part of the glove com- ODDMENT COMPARTMENT partment houses the Compact Disc (fig. 170) A glove compartment with light is player B (CD-changer, where fitted) located on the dashboard. The com- A pivoting oddment compartment and, on certain versions, the power partment has a flap and lock.
Page 218 FRONT BOTTLE/CAN HOLDER CLIMATE-CONTROLLED To open the compartment air vent, lift control A (fig. 173). To close the (fig. 171) DRINK COMPARTMENT vent, lower control A. It is incorporated into the front The front armrest incorporates a To close the compartment, lower part of the central console.
Page 219 Take care not to spill the ODDMENT COMPARTMENT ON DOOR POCKETS drinks. In any case, the THE DASHBOARD (fig. 174) Door pockets are located on the compartment is provided door panels: Oddment compartment A is placed with a hole on its bottom, through in front of the gear lever.
Page 220 CENTRAL CONSOLE REAR BOTTLE/CAN HOLDER REAR ARMREST COMPARTMENT (fig. 177) (fig. 178) COMPARTMENT Versions with automatic, two-zone Bottle/can holder A is incorporated Inside the rear armrest is an odd- climate control system are provided in the rear armrest. ment compartment A (fig. 179), a with an oddment compartment A, card holder B and a power socket C.
Page 221 – the power socket POWER SOCKET ELECTRIC SUNSHADE (fig. 181) – the remote control used for the It is located inside the rear armrest. The electric sunshade works with CONNECT HI-FI and TV functions ignition key at MAR. The power socket can be accessed –...
Page 222 MAP POCKETS (fig. 182) (e.g. satellite antitheft device), or any other accessory that burden the (where provided) electric supply, contact your Lancia Paper pockets are located on the Dealership whose qualified person- back of the front seats. nel, besides suggesting the most suit- able devices belonging to the Fiat Auto S.p.A.
Page 223 RADIO TRANSMITTERS AND SOLAR CELL IMPORTANT Best operation of the fan when the car is parked is CELLULAR TELEPHONES OPERATED obtained by closing completely the Radio transceiver equipment (e.g.: windows and sunroof. Furthermore, SUNROOF e-tacs mobile phones, HAM radio to check operation at first speed of systems and the like) shall not be the fan, disengage air vents and set used inside the car unless a separate...
Page 224 Improper use of the sun- The sunroof must not be SUNROOF OPENING/CLOSING roof can in any case be opened in the presence of AND PIVOTING dangerous, even if the snow or ice; otherwise, it All the sunroof functions (opening, anti-trap safety system is avail- could be damaged.
Page 225 If this does not occur, con- (fig. 187 set at the corners be initialized again as follows: tact your Lancia Dealership. of the sunroof housing, are not 1) turn selector A clockwise and If the operation is interrupted obstructed.
Page 226 CENTRAL SUNROOF AND To actuate central locking by Central locking can also be actuat- means of the remote control, keep ed by turning the key in the lock of WINDOW LOCKING SYSTEM button B (fig. 188) depressed for one of the front doors: keep the key Central locking/opening of sunroof more than 3 seconds after closing turned to 2 (fig.
Page 227 SOLAR CELLS EMERGENCY MANOEUVRE 4) Insert the Allen screw wrench D into the hexagonal seat of the sun- The upper part of the sunroof In case the electric actuation device roof starter motor, then turn it: incorporates 21 solar cells that pro- fails to operate, the sunroof can be duce a maximum power of 24 W to actuated manually, proceeding as...
Page 228 BOOT With the battery flat, or – a prolonged pressure of the but- after the interruption of ton will release the lock and open one of the protection the boot. The boot can be opened both from fuses, or if you want to disconnect the outside and the inside of the car.
Page 229 OPENING FROM THE OUTSIDE OPENING BY MEANS OF THE If the electronic alarm is on, both the volumetric protection and the WITH THE KEY (fig. 193) REMOTE CONTROL boot control sensor will be switched The boot lock is electrified: press The tailgate can be opened from off, and the system will emit (except button A on the tailgate to open it.
Page 230 FUNCTIONS THAT CAN BE – automatic locking of the boot, The following tables summarize door locks and fuel filler cap, when the operation logic of the boot lock, MODIFIED BY THE CONNECT the car speed exceeds 20 km/h. depending on the functions that MENU have been actuated.
Page 231 Boot lock opening/closing by metal insert of the key Bound to central door locking Not bound to central door locking Central door locking system condition Press the tailgate but- Turn the key clock- Turn the key clock- Turn the key clock- To open the boot tailgate wise in the...
Page 232 CLOSING THE BOOT BOOT CEILING LIGHT (fig. 195) LUGGAGE NETS The boot is equipped with a fixed To close the bonnet, The boot is lit by ceiling light A, net (fig. 196) set on the left side, which switches on automatically lower it down until you lay and (optional for versions/markets it on the lock, without...
Page 233 The mobile net can be secured to To secure the net, insert hooks A ANCHORING THE LOAD one of the two positions provided in (fig. 200) in seats B then push The loads can be secured with belts the front part of the boot (fig. 197- downwards.
Page 234 Heavy loads which are ten the luggage net (optional, can be not securely anchored IMPORTANT purchased at a Lancia Dealership). could seriously injure The car is equipped with a system passengers in the event of an that automatically keeps headlight accident.
Page 235 POWER SOCKET (fig. 203) Do not use the socket for SKI TUNNEL (where provided) power devices with a (where provided) The tunnel can be used to trans- higher intake than that port long objects (e.g. skis). It is located on the right-hand side shown.
Page 236 2) Lower the coating by pulling 3) Open the flap by pressing but- 4) Take protection D (fig. 207) out handgrip B (fig. 205). tons C (fig. 206). and lay it on the armrest. 5) From the boot, lower the flap by pressing handle A (fig.
Page 237 After placing the load with the pro- 3) Secure the load by inserting the To release the protection with the tection, secure it by means of the attachment of belt A (fig. 210) into load: belt to prevent it from shifting in the buckle of the central rear safety 1) Release the belt by pressing the case of sudden braking or collision.
Page 238 BONNET 3) Lift lever B (fig. 213) and IMPORTANT The bonnet is lifted release the bonnet from the safety by two gas struts (fig. 214). Do not retainer. tamper with the struts and follow the bonnet in its movement. 4) Lift the bonnet. Open the bonnet only when the car is station- ary.

Page 239: Fuel Filler Cap

Page 240 In an emergency, the flap can be IMPORTANT The airtight seal of REFUELLING released by pulling wire B (fig. 216) the cap may lead to a slight increase To guarantee full tank filling, carry on the right-hand side of the boot of pressure in the tank.
Page 241 DIESEL PARTICULATE Since this filter physically traps par- Diesel particulate filter clogged ticulates, it shall be cleaned (re- FILTER (DPF) When the Diesel particulate filter is claimed) at regular intervals by burn- (2.4 JTD CAE version) clogged, the instrument panel warn- ing carbon particles.

Page 242: Roof Rack

Page 243 HEADLIGHTS Each headlight is equipped with an Operation electronic control unit used to con- Light is projected onto the road by trol supply voltage. Due to high bril- GAS-DISCHARGE (BI-XENO) means of a spherical glass lens with liancy, bi-Xeno headlights require a large surface (70 mm diameter).
Page 244 Actuator control IMPORTANT In case of faults, To avoid oscillation of the anti- depends on the processing of the sig- contact a Lancia Dealership. dazzling beam in case of particular nals from two orientation sensors. road surfaces (paved surfaces, dirt...
Page 245 – Failed connection of actuators: if HEADLAMP ORIENTATION FOR To carry out this opera- the control signal is failing, the actu- tion, contact a Lancia LEFT-/RIGHT HAND DRIVE ators will be brought back to the Dealership. The car headlights are equipped...

Page 246: Eobd System

Page 247 system comes into operation, elimi- ABS OPERATION nating hydraulic pressure only from The electronic control unit receives the brake caliper of the locked wheel GENERAL and processes the signals from the and, as soon as the latter start spin- brake pedal and from the four sen- If this is the first car with ABS you ning again, brakes it again, thus sors on the wheels.
Page 248 Drive the car extremely carefully possibility of skidding. Drive the Excessive use of engine to the nearest Lancia Dealership car extremely carefully to the braking (gears too short to have the ABS system checked.

Page 249: Sound System

Page 250 Speakers on the rear window – two high-performance sub- System characteristics include woofers (230 mm diameter), fitted crystalline treble and full, rich bass- shelf (fig. 225) on the rear window shelf es. Furthermore, the complete range Speakers C are located at the ends of tones is played in the entire pas- –...

Page 251: Starting The Engine

Page 252 3) On versions with manual gear- avoid damaging catalyst. box, set the gear lever to neutral and Contact a Lancia Dealership. 5)Press the clutch pedal down to press the clutch pedal fully down to the floor. avoid the starter dragging the gears.
Page 253 50 the engine off. If starting is particularly diffi- to 60 °C. cult,(with the Lancia CODE system IMPORTANT After a taxing drive working properly) do not keep try- you should allow the engine to ing too many times.
Page 254 For cars equipped with EMERGENCY START-UP Never bump start the turbosupercharger engine (by pushing, tow- If the Lancia CODE system fails to particular, but generally ing or coasting downhill) recognise that code transmitted by for any kind of cars, avoid abrupt...
Page 255 PARKING IMPORTANT Best operation of Never leave unsuper- the fan when the car is parked is vised children in the car; obtained by closing completely the always remove the keys To park the car, proceed as fol- windows and sunroof. Furthermore, and take them with you when you lows: to check operation at first speed of...

Page 256: Safe Driving

Page 257 Driving while drunk or Take care when fitting Make sure that any mats under the influence of additional spoilers, alloy are appropriate in size: drugs or certain medi- rims and wheel caps: they hindrance, even cines is dangerous both for you might reduce ventilation of the slight, to the braking system may and other road users.
Page 258 – Do not drive too many hours at a – Keep a greater safety distance Here is some advice for driving in time but stop at intervals to stretch from the cars in front of you than the rain: your legs and recoup your energy. during daylight hours: it is hard to –...
Page 259 DRIVING IN FOG – Do not overtake other vehicles if DRIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS you can help it. If the fog is thick, do not start out – When driving downhill use the on a journey unless you absolutely – If you are forced to stop your car engine braking effect by engaging a have to.
Page 260 DRIVING ON SNOW AND ICE DRIVING WITH ABS – The ABS prevents the wheels from locking, but it does not – Here are some tips for driving in The ABS is a braking system that increase actual grip conditions these conditions: essentially offers two advantages: between tyre and road.
Page 261 CONTAINING RUNNING COSTS AND Roof rack/ski rack Remove the roof or ski racks from POLLUTION the car as soon as they are no longer needed. These accessories reduce the Some suggestions which may help Tyres aerodynamic penetration of the car you to keep the running costs of the and will increase consumption.
Page 262 Spoilers Gear selections Acceleration The use of optional extras which As soon as the traffic and road con- Accelerating violently increasing are not certified for specific use on ditions allow it, shift to a higher the revs will greatly effect consump- the car may reduce the aerodynamic gear.
Page 263 Traffic and road conditions CHEAP RUNNING THAT RESPECTS THE Heavy traffic and higher consump- ENVIRONMENT tion are synonymous, for example when driving slowly with frequent use of lower gears or in towns where Environmental protection has been LOOKING AFTER EMISSION there are numerous traffic lights.
Page 264 Ignoring the above rules engine and have the car seen at a shields and do not remove may lead to fire. Lancia Dealership as soon as you those already fitted to the can. catalytic converter and exhaust When the instrument panel fuel pipe.

Page 265: Towing A Trailer

Page 266 TOW HITCH INSTALLATION For the electric connections, a 7 INSTALLATION DIAGRAM (fig. 1) pole 12VDC coupling must be used The tow hitch must be fixed to the Fasten the tow hitch in the points (CUNA/UNI and ISO/DIN stan- body by an expert in accordance marked with (1) using 18 M10 dards).
Page 267 L0A0264b fig. 1...

Page 268: Winter Tyres

Page 269: snow chains, page 270: storing the car.

Page 271 – round-nosed scissors, repeatedly. – work gloves, - fire extinguisher. These articles are all available from Lineaccessori Lancia range. This operation must be carried outdoor. Exhaust gas contains car- bon monoxide, an extremely toxic gas.

Page 272: In An Emergency

Page 273: jump starting, page 274: bump starting.

Page 275 IF A TYRE If the wheel is being The jack should only be changed on a steep or used to change a wheel on IS PUNCTURED badly surfaced road, the car for which it was place wedges or other suitable designed.
Page 276 CHANGING Change the wheel as follows: 4) Open the boot. 1) Stop the car so that it is not a 5) Fold the boot carpet A (fig. 4). A WHEEL hazard for other road users or your- 6) Take out the warning triangle A self when changing the wheel.
Page 277 8) Unscrew manually the jack han- 9) Open the tool bag and take out 8 – wrench for power steering re- dle A (fig. 7) and remove it from the the tools to be used (fig. 8): servoir cap screws container B.
Page 278 11) Place the bushing A (fig. 11) 13) Position the jack under the car Warn anyone nearby for the wheel bolts on the ratchet near the wheel to be replaced in the that the car is about to be wrench B. point shown on the panelling at lifted.
Page 279 14) Turn the jack handle A 15) Insert the ratchet wrench A 17) Loosen the wheel bolts and (fig. 13) by hand so to open it par- (fig. 14) with the bolt bush B on the remove the wheel. tially and position the jack under the jack groove.
Page 280 19) On versions with alloy rims, to Wheel bolts are specific 20) Lower the car and remove the make the wheel fitting easier, screw for the type of rim (alloy jack (fig. 18). the pin A (fig. 16), provided in the or steel) fitted.
Page 281 - fig. 20 = versions with steel rims. the wheel bolt tightening checked into B (fig. 8) and clamp it by at a Lancia Dealership as soon as 22) On versions with alloy rims, screwing handle A (fig. 8) manually possible.
Page 282 Due to high voltage, the malfunctions with the risk of fire. bulb of bi-Xeno gas-dis- charge headlights must only be replaced by experts: dan- ger of death! Contact the Lancia Dealership. Only touch the metal part when handling halo- The bulbs of (bi-Xeno) bulbs.
Page 283 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TYPES OF BULBS – When a light is not working, Different types of bulbs are check that it has not fused before installed in the car (fig. 22): changing the bulb. A - All glass bulbs – For the location of the fuses, refer to “If a fuse blows”...
Page 284 Bulb Ref. figure 22 Type Power Gas-discharge Main beam headlights/Dipped beam headlights – Additional main beam headlights Front sidelights H21W Front direction indicators WY5W Side direction indicators Rear direction indicators – – Front fog lights Taillights – – Brake lights –...
Page 285 It is therefore recommended to ger of death! Contact the Lancia the bulbs replaced at Lancia Dealership. Dealership. fig. 23...
Page 286 A and remove the cluster under the engine. For this reason, it from the back 2. is suggested to have the bulbs replaced at a Lancia Dealership. 2) Turn the direction indicator anticlockwise and remove the bulb holder B.
Page 287 If the lights break down partially E - B type, 12V-P21W bulb for To replace the bulbs: or completely go to a Lancia rear fog light. 1) Open the tailgate and lift the Dealership. 4) After replacing the bulbs, refit covering A (fig.
Page 288 To replace the bulb: If the third brake light breaks down partially or completely go to a 1) Remove the lens using a screw- Lancia Dealership. FRONT CEILING LIGHT driver as a lever in point A. To replace the bulbs: 2) Remove the bulb B by releasing the side contacts and then replace it.
Page 289 2) Loosen the screws C (fig. 32) 4) Remove the clipped in glass REAR CEILING LIGHT and remove the ceiling light. bulbs from the bulb holder and To replace the bulbs: replace them. 3) To remove bulb holders turn 1) Remove the ceiling light by lev- them anticlockwise (fig.
Page 290 A - Central ceiling light bulb. GLOVE COMPARTMENT LIGHT 2) Press the two sides of shield B (fig. 37) at the fastening clips and B - Courtesy light bulbs. To replace the bulb: turn it. 3) Remove clipped in glass bulbs 1) Remove the lens by using a 3) Replace the clipped in bulb C.
Page 291 COURTESY MIRROR LIGHTS 3) Remove the bulbs C (fig. 39) BOOT LIGHT releasing them from the side con- To replace the courtesy mirror To replace the bulb: tacts and replace them. bulbs: 1) Remove the lens by using a 4) Refit the mirror inserting first 1) Lift the mirror cover A (fig.
Page 292 3) Replace the clipped in bulb C . DOOR LIGHTS (fig. 42) DOOR MIRROR LIGHTS (fig. 43) 4) Close the shield by clipping it To replace the bulb: into its housing. To replace the bulb: 1) Remove the lens by using a 5) Refit the lens by inserting side D screwdriver as a lever on clip A.

Page 293: If A Fuse Blows

Page 294 FUSE LOCATION To reach the fuses: The systems and devices protected by the general fuses (fig. 70) are The main fuses of THESIS are con- 1) Open the tailgate. listed on the following pages. tained into four fuse boxes, to be 2) Loosen knob A (fig.
Page 295 FUSES IN THE DASHBOARD Spare fuses A (fig. 72) are housed in IMPORTANT Remember horizontal position in the upper part of replace the spare fuse after replacing The fuses protecting the main the fusebox. The spare fuse present a fuse. devices are arranged in a fusebox various amperages.
Page 296 The devices protected by the fuses FUSES IN THE BOOT The spare fuses, with different (fig. 75) are listed in the tables on amperage, are housed in vertical The fusebox (fig. 77) is located on the following pages. position at the sides of the fusebox. the right side of the boot, inside the After replacing the fuses refit the service compartment.
Page 297 MIDI-FUSE and MEGA-FUSE Fuse Ampere Location Dashboard fusebox 1 fig. 70 Dashboard fusebox 2 fig. 70 Boot fusebox fig. 70 Engine compartment fusebox fig. 70 Exterior lights Fuse Ampere Location External light control (twilight sensor adjustment) fig. 73 Direction indicators fig.
Page 298 Interior lights Fuse Ampere Location Boot ceiling light 19 (*) fig. 78 13 (*) fig. 73 Passenger compartment rear ceiling light 19 (*) fig. 78 13 (*) fig. 73 Door puddle lights 19 (*) fig. 78 13 (*) fig. 73 (*) As an alternative for certain versions/markets Devices and utilities Fuse...
Page 299 Devices and utilities Fuse Ampere Location Horn fig. 75 Windscreen wiper controls fig. 73 Brake light control (NC) fig. 73 Brake light control (NA) fig. 73 Ignition switch fig. 75 Air conditioner compressor fig. 75 Cruise Control (satellite controls) fig. 73 Cruise Control (Adaptive point) fig.
Page 300 Devices and utilities Fuse Ampere Location Engine control system point interface fig. 75 Brake system point interface fig. 73 Headlight washers fig. 75 Heated rear window fig. 73 Automatic gearbox starter fig. 75 fig. 73 Passenger position point fig. 78 Steering lock point fig.
Page 301 Devices and utilities Fuse Ampere Location Passenger door point (power supply) fig. 73 Instrument panel point fig. 73 fig. 73 Steering angle sensor point 19 (*) fig. 78 (*) As an alternative for certain versions/markets 13 (*) fig. 73 fig. 73 Parking sensor point fig.
Page 302 Devices and utilities Fuse Ampere Location Heated windscreen defroster fig. 73 Windscreen wiper nozzle defroster fig. 73 fig. 73 Comfort driver’s seat fig. 78 Comfort front passenger’s seat fig. 78 Electric driver’s seat (movement) fig. 78 Electric front passenger’s seat (movement) fig.
Page 303 IF BATTERY IS TO BE DISCONNECTED Battery is housed on the left side of 2) Depress manually the inside hook turn the key anticlockwise in the lock, the luggage compartment, protected A (fig. 80) of the boot lock, and push and at the same time slightly press the by cover B (fig.
Page 304 DISCONNECTING THE It is not possible to close INITIALISING THE CONTROL the boot when battery is UNLOADED BATTERY UNITS OF THE DOOR LOCKS, discharged discon- AIR CONDITIONER AND ESP Should the discharged battery be nected for the purpose of being re- SYSTEM disconnected (to have it charged placed/ charged again: do not try...

Page 305: If The Battery Is Flat

Page 306: towing the car.

Page 307 If you cannot set the gear lever to tow on the road. neutral, do not tow the car but con- tact a Lancia Dealership.

Page 308: Jacking The Car

Page 309 IF AN ACCIDENT – In pile-ups on the motorway, IF ANYONE IS INJURED particularly when the visibility is Never leave the injured person alone. OCCURS bad, there is a high risk of other The obligation to provide assistance vehicles running into those already exists even for those not directly in- stopped.
Page 310 – antiseptic plasters of different sizes The first-aid kit and the fire extin- guisher are included in the Lineac- – a roll of plaster cessori Lancia range. – a pack of cotton wool – a bottle of disinfectant – a packet of paper handkerchiefs...

Page 312: Car Maintenance

Page 313: service schedule.

Page 314 thousands of kilometres nspect conditions of timing belt ç ç Replacement of timing gear drive belt (*) and Poly-V accessory drive belt ç Replace spark plugs (3.2 versions) ç Replace spark plugs (2.0 TB) ç ç ç ç Check engine control systems via diagnostic socket ç...

Page 315: Additional Checks

Page 316 – for short, repeated trips (less should be changed in relation to how Be careful not to mix up you use the car, contact a Lancia than 7-8 km) with outside tempera- the various types of fluids ture below zero Dealership.
Page 317 IMPORTANT - Diesel filter IMPORTANT - Dust/pollen filter IMPORTANT - Battery The different grades of purity in If the car is often used in dusty or The charge in your battery should diesel fuel normally available might extremely polluted environments, be checked, where possible at the make it necessary to replace the fil- you should change the filter element...

Page 318: Checking Fluid Levels

Page 319 fig. 3 - 2.4 JTD version L0A0345b 1) Engine oil 2) Brake fluid 3) Windscreen/rear window and headlight washer fluid 4) Engine coolant 5) Power steering fluid fig. 4 - 2.4 JTD - 2.4 JTD CAE versions L0A0341b...
Page 320 fig. 5 - 3.0 V6 CAE version L0A0342b 1) Engine oil 2) Brake fluid 3) Windscreen/rear window and headlight washer fluid 4) Engine coolant 5) Power steering fluid fig. 6 - 3.2 V6 CAE version L0A0358b...
Page 321 IMPORTANT If during a routine mately one litre of oil. check you will find that the oil level is above the MAX reference line, contact a Lancia Dealership to Be very careful under the have the proper level restored. bonnet: you risk burning yourself.
Page 322 IMPORTANT The oil consump- Used engine oil and re- ENGINE COOLANT (fig. 13) tion depends on the driving style and placed oil filters contain the conditions under which the car is substances which can harm used. the environment. We recommend you have the car seen to at a Lan- Do not remove the reser- cia Dealership for the oil and filter...
Page 323 Lancia Dealership. In For topping up, remove cap A, – With the engine running, turn the case of need, lacking the speci-...
Page 324 Should it happen, immediately wash with water. Oil consumption is ex- tremely low. If the oil level needs topping up again af- ter a short period of time, have the system checked for leakage at a Lancia Dealership. fig. 16...
Page 325 Brake fluid is poisonous WINDSCREEN/REAR Certain commercial and highly corrosive. In additives for windscreen WINDOW/HEADLIGHT the event of accidental washers are inflammable. WASHER FLUID (fig. 17) contact, wash the parts involved The engine compartment con- To top up, remove cap A and filler immediately with neutral soap and tains hot components which may water, then rinse thoroughly.

Page 326: Air Cleaner

Page 327 Under normal condition of use top- Have the dust/pollen filter checked stances that are very ping up the electrolyte with distilled once a year at a Lancia Dealership, harmful for the environ- water is therefore not required. A preferably at the onset of summer.
Page 328 (free-hand phone kit, etc.) If the battery is not fitted with electrolyte level indicator, the relevant checks visit a Lancia Dealership. They must only be carried out by authorised personnel. can suggest the most suitable...
Page 329 (–). of the battery electrolyte freezing operation must be carried out by a Lancia Dealership. (this may even occur at –10 °C). If the car is inactive for a long period Charging should be slow at a low of time, refer to “Storing the car”, in...
Page 330 LENGTHENING THE LIFE OF require permanent electric supply, YOUR BATTERY 70 Ah 42 mA visit a Lancia Dealership, whose To prevent rapidly draining the 80 Ah 48 mA qualified personnel, in addition to battery and ensure that it continues...

Page 331: Spark Plugs

Page 332 WHEELS Tyre pressure must be If the pressure is too low correct to ensure good the tyre overheats and AND TYRES road holding. this can cause it serious damage. TYRE PRESSURE Check the pressure of each tyre, including the spare, every two weeks Wrong pressure causes uneven and before long journeys.
Page 333 If any of these occur, have the car use. Remember to check the spare tyre particularly carefully too seen to at a Lancia Dealership. Avoid overloading your car: this If a replacement is necessary, always use new tyres and avoid can seriously damage wheels and tyres.

Page 334: Windscreen Wipers

Page 335 The blades must also be perfectly Replacing the blades SPRAY NOZZLES (fig. 21) clean before starting the check. If (fig. 20) If there is no jet of liquid, first required, clean the corners with make sure that there is liquid in the To replace the windscreen wiper warm water and soap.
Page 336 Before summer, have the system of the ESP system. It is necessary to the headlights are on. checked at a Lancia Dealership. perform the initialisation operations contained in the paragraph “If battery is to be disconnected” in the chapter “In an emergency”.
Page 337 For your THESIS, LANCIA has used leading-edge technological solutions to effectively protect the body from rust.
Page 338 TIPS FOR KEEPING THE BODY Before cleaning Detergents pollute water. windscreen (e.g. at filling For this reason the car IN GOOD CONDITIONS stations), make sure to must be washed in an have deactivated the rain sensor area equipped for the collection Paintwork and turned the ignition key to and purification of the liquids...
Page 339 Suitable car cleaning products are When drying the car, be careful to Windows available at Lancia Dealerships. get at those parts which are not so Use specific window cleaners to easily seen e.g. the door frames, bon- clean the windows.
Page 340 Engine compartment INTERIORS Do not keep aerosol cans in the car. There is the At the end of each winter season, risk they might explode. From time to time check that water carefully clean the engine compart- Aerosol cans must never be has not collected under the mats ment without directing the water jet exposed to a temperature above...
Page 341 CLEANING VELVET SEATS CLEANING LEATHER SEATS STEERING WHEEL/GEAR AND FABRICS LEVER KNOB WITH GENUINE – Remove the dry dirt with a LEATHER COVERING chamois leather or very slightly – Remove dust with a soft brush moist loth without exerting too and vacuum cleaner.

Page 342: Technical Specifications

Page 343 The plate (fig. 4) is applied on the B - Colour name front axle inner bonnet panel. C - LANCIA colour code H - Maximum vehicle weight on rear axle D - Respray and touch up code I - Engine type...
Page 344 ENGINE CODES - BODYWORK VERSIONS Engine code Bodywork version 2.0 TB 841E000 841AXA1B 03D 841AXA1B 03E (**) 841AXA1B 03F (*) 841D000 841AXB1B 00C 841AXB1B 00D (*) 2.4 CAE 841D000 841AXB11 04C 841AXB11 04D (*) 2.4 JTD 841P000 841AXN11 10 841N000 (**) 841AXH11 06B (**) 841AXM11 09 (**) 3.2 V6 CAE...
Page 345 ENGINE 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE GENERAL FEATURES Engine code 841E000 841D000 841D000 Location Front, Front, Front, transversally-mounted transversally-mounted transversally-mounted Cycle Otto Otto Otto 5 in line 5 in line 5 in line Number and layout of cylinders Number of valves per 4 - Hydraulic 4 - Hydraulic 4 - Hydraulic...
Page 346 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE GENERAL FEATURES 841H000 841L000 Engine code Front, Front, Location transversally-mounted transversally-mounted Diesel Otto Cycle 5 in line 6 V, 60° Number and layout of cylinders 4 - Hydraulic 4 - Hydraulic Number of valves per tappets tappets cylinder...
Page 347 FUEL FEED - IGNITION 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Fuel feed BOSCH ME7 BOSCH ME3.1 BOSCH ME3.1 Multipoint sequential Multipointsequential Multipointsequential electronic injection, electronic injection electronic injection electronically controlled variable geometry turbosupercharger with intercooler Ignition Static electronic Static electronic Static electronic integral with integral with integral with...
Page 348 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Fuel feed BOSCH COMMON BOSCH ME7 RAIL MULTIJET Multipointsequential direct injection, electronic injection BOSCH RADIALJET injection pump, electronically controlled variable geometry turbosupercharger with intercooler Ignition Static electronic integral with ignition and single coil Firing order 1-4-2-5-3-6 Injection order 1-2-4-5-3...
Page 349 TRANSMISSION 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Gearbox Mechanical Mechanical Automatic gearbox gearbox with gearbox with with five forward six forward gears six forward gears gears and reverse and reverse and reverse with synchromesh with synchromesh Clutch Single disc, Single disc, hydraulically hydraulically controlled controlled...
Page 350 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Gearbox Automatic gearbox Automatic gearbox with five forward with five forward gears and reverse gears and reverse Clutch Drive Front Front 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Service brakes: - front Self-ventilated discs Self-ventilated discs - rear Self-ventilated discs Self-ventilated discs Electric parking...
Page 351 SUSPENSIONS 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Front Independent wheel, Independent wheel, Independent wheel, 5-link Multilink type, 5-link Multilink type, 5-link Multilink type, with aluminium with aluminium with aluminium wishbones, anti-roll bar, wishbones, anti-roll bar, wishbones, anti-roll bar, coil springs and coil springs and coil springs and telescopic shock absorbers.
Page 352 2.4 JTD Front Independent wheel, Independent wheel, 5-link Multilink type, 5-link Multilink type, with aluminium with aluminium wishbones, anti-roll bar, wishbones, anti-roll bar, coil springs and coil springs and telescopic shock absorbers. telescopic shock absorbers. Telescopic shock absorbers Telescopic shock absorbers with continuous damping with continuous damping action variation...
Page 353 STEERING 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Control Rack-and-pinion Rack-and-pinion Rack-and-pinion power steering gear. power steering gear. steering gear, with Optional, where provided, Optional, where provided, VARIOSTEER hydraulic (VARIOSTEER) hydraulic (VARIOSTEER) hydraulic power steering power steering (power power steering (power (power steering steering variable steering variable variable with speed)
Page 354 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Control Rack-and-pinion Rack-and-pinion steering gear, with steering gear, with VARIOSTEER hydraulic VARIOSTEER hydraulic power steering power steering (power steering (power steering variable with speed) variable with speed) Steering column Energy-absorbing Energy-absorbing jointed steering jointed steering column with column with manual or electric...
Page 355 WHEELS 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Standard tyres 7Jx16 H2-39 7Jx16 H2-39 7Jx16 H2-39 Rims 215/60 R16 (95W) 215/60 R16 (95W) 215/60 R16 (95W) Tyres 215/60 ZR16 (95W) 215/60 ZR16 (95W) 215/60 ZR16 (95W) Optional tyres 7Jx17 H2-41 7Jx17 H2-41 7Jx17 H2-41 Rims 225/50 R17 (94W) 225/50 R17 (94W)
Page 356 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Standard tyres Rims 7Jx16 H2-39 7Jx16 H2-39 Tyres 215/60 R16 (95W) 215/60 R16 (95W) 215/60 ZR16 (95W) 215/60 ZR16 (95W) Optional tyres Rims 7Jx17 H2-37 7Jx17 H2-41 7Jx17 H2-41 8Jx18 H2-37 Tyres (*) 225/50 R17 (94W) 225/50 R17 (94W) 225/50 ZR17 (94W) 225/50 ZR17 (94W)
Page 357 RIMS AND TYRES CORRECT TYRE READING 225 = Nominal width (S, distance in mm between sides) Alloy rims or steel. Below, please find the instructions needed to understand the meaning = Percentage height/width Tubeless tyres with radial carcass. of the code stamped on the tyre, as ratio (H/S) The homologated tyres are listed in shown in fig.
Page 358 Load index (capacity) Maximum speed index CORRECT RIM READING 60 = 250 kg up to 160 km/h 84 = 500 kg Below, please find the instructions 61 = 257 kg 85 = 515 kg up to 170 km/h needed to understand the meaning 62 = 265 kg 86 = 530 kg up to 180 km/h...
Page 359 WHEEL GEOMETRY 2.0 TB 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE 2.4 CAE Front wheels (STD A): – caster angle 2° 40’ 2° 40’ 2° 40’ 2° 40’ – kingpin angle –50’ ± 20’ –50’ ± 20’ –50’ ± 20’ –50’ ± 20’ –...
Page 360 DIMENSIONS The sizes are in mm and refer to the car fitted with standard tyres. Slight size changes with optional tyres. Height is intended for an unladen car. Boot volume (as per VDA standards): 400 dm (*) = 3.0 V6 CAE and 3.2 V6 CAE versions L0A0171b fig.
Page 361 WEIGHTS 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Empty weight (including all fluids, fuel tank at 90 % and with no optional): 1,780 1,760 1,790 Payload (*) including the driver Maximum admitted loads (**): – front axle 1,300 1,300 1,300 1,300 1,300 1,300 –...
Page 362 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Empty weight (including all fluids, fuel tank at 90 % and with no optional): 1,820 1,820 Payload (*) including the driver Maximum admitted loads (**): – front axle 1,300 1,300 – rear axle 1,300 1,300 –...
Page 363 CAPACITIES 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE Prescribed fuels Recommended product Fuel tank: litres Unleaded petrol with a RON – including a reserve of litres not lower than 95 – – – Fuel tank: litres Diesel fuel for motor – – – –...
Page 364 2.4 JTD 3.2 V6 Prescribed fuels Recommended product Fuel tank: litres – Unleaded petrol with a RON – including a reserve of litres – not lower than 95 Fuel tank: litres Diesel fuel for motor vehicles – – including a reserve of litres (Specification EN590) –...

Page 365: Fluids And Lubricants

Page 366 Fluid and lubricant specifications Original fluids Applications for correct car operation and lubricants TUTELA CAR TECHNYX Synthetic-based oil, grade SAE 75W-85 that passes Mechanical gearbox and Contractual Technical API GL 4 specifications Plus, Fiat 9.55550. differential petrol version Reference N° F010.B05 Synthetic-based oil, grade SAE 75W-85, that pass Mechanical gearbox and TUTELA CAR MATRYX...

Page 367: Fuel Consumption

Page 368 EMISSION IN EXHAUST The CO emission in exhaust shown in the following tables refers to the combined consumption. emissions according to 2.0 TB 2.4 CAE 2.0 JTD 3.2 V6 CAE Directive 1999/100/CE (g/km)
Page 370 INDEX - manually deactivating - rear........67 BS system ......245 the rear side bags....94 Ashtray - EBD electronic - front ......... 215 - passenger’s brakeforce distributor ..245 - rear ........215 front air bag ..... 90 Accessories purchased by ASR system ......
Page 371 Bodywork paint Bose HI-FI audio system ..248 attery identification plate ....342 Bottle/can holder - checking the battery Bodywork versions (codes) ..343 - front ......... 217 charge........ 327 Bonnet ........237 - rear ........219 - disconnecting the loaded Boot Brake and hydraulic battery .......
Page 372 - presetting for mounting emissions......367 the “Type Isofix” child restraint CODE Card Schedule ......314 system........ 85 (Lancia CODE system) ..28 - Scheduled Servicing ..309 Children CONNECT controls ....15 - Service Schedule ....312 (transport in safety) .... 81 CONNECT infotelematic Carrying children safely ..
Page 373 Dead lock device (doors) ..56 - door pockets ..... 218 - emergency Delayed light switching off disengagement ....178 - initialising the control (Follow me home) ....99 Electric sunshade ....220 units of the door locks, Diesel filter Electric windows ....
Page 374 - what triggers the alarm Engine - ESP system action ..... 192 off ........42 - identification code .... 341 - failure indication ....192 Electronic automatic gearbox - marking ......341 - initialising the control units - technical specifications ..344 (COMFORTRONIC).....
Page 375 Front fog lights - level gauge ......108 andles ........ 221 Fuel consumption ....366 - bulb replacement ....285 Hazard lights ......170 Fuel cut-off switch and circuit - control ......171 Headlight washer breaker......... 173 Front passenger presence sensor - control ......
Page 376 If a tyre is punctured - CID device ......44 ey ........27 (changing a wheel) ....274 - CID device battery - actuation logic of the boot replacement ....... 53 If an accident occurs ....308 lock by means of the metal - door unlocking to insert .........
Page 377 Manual gearbox ..... 179 - towing a trailer ....211 ambda sensors ....- technical specifications ..348 Performance ......358 Lancia CODE (system) ..26 Model plate ......341 Power socket - CODE Card ...... 28 MSR system ......192 - in the boot ......
Page 378 - Comfort Seats ....68 - locking the door and afe driving ......255 leaving the car ....50 - head restraints ....66 - before getting behind the - failure indication ....53 - heating ......67 wheel........255 - “Garage”...
Page 379 Ski tunnel ......... 234 - JTD versions ...... 251 - technical specifications ..170 Snow chains ......268 - jump starting....... 272 Suspensions Solar cell operated sunroof ..222 - petrol versions ..... 251 - technical specifications..350 - central locking/opening..225 Steering Symbols ........
Page 380 - maintenance ....... 331 - fluid ........324 Windscreen washer blades - pressure (important) ..331 - maintenance ....... 333 - winter tyres ......267 Windscreen wiper - blade maintenance ..... 333 seful accessories ....270 - control ........ 101 Windscreen wiper spray nozzles olumetric protection ....
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Lancia's Thesis was its Requiem

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It has been conjectured that Fiat's attempt to take its storied Lancia charge from rallying legend to a somewhat effeminate near-luxury brand, overtly geared to women, was doomed to begin with.

However, today - perhaps, particularly this year - it's worth remembering the brand's last flagship, the Thesis, for a memorable ad in which Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta appeared, riding a bike along a tree-lined avenue.

A number of large cars whizz past her, causing her hair to fly uncontrollably, and even her skirt to lift. She stops, annoyed. When a Lancia Thesis approaches at high speed, Maria prepares for yet another buffeting; yet her skirt barely flutters, as the breeze caresses her hair. The car overtakes her gently, quietly, and smoothly.

As the film ends, the cyclist and the driver exchange glances, in mutual recognition of this sophisticated demonstration of power, one which has left room for courtesy and sensitivity.

Lancia is - perhaps soon, was - one of the world's oldest automakers. Founded in 1906, it became known for technological innovation and craftsman-like attention to detail.

In the Twenties, the Lancia Lambda was the first car in the world with stress-bearing bodywork, eschewing the frame to which American automakers would remain true for the better part of the twentieth century. The Lambda was also first with independent front suspension.

1937 Lancia Aprilia Berlinetta Aerodinamica

France's Citroën would become famous for its obsession with wind tunnels and aerodynamics, but Lancia's Aprilia of the Thirties boasted a wind-cheating body before Citroën had ever mentioned coefficients of drag; and registering a C d of 0.47 back when the average value among the competition was a bluff 0.60.

And in the Fifties, under the Aurelia's hood was the first V-6 ever fitted to a roadgoing vehicle.

From the 1970s onward, under Fiat ownership, Lancia wrestled with reliability and rust prevention, while also struggling to retain its identity. Fiat became increasingly intent on integrating Lancia into its engineering and purchasing systems, which saved cost but also hurt competitiveness - particularly in the upper echelon, where being authentically distinctive is important.

The '80s rallying success of the legendary Lancia Delta Integrale - six consecutive world championship titles - gave Lancia something truly unique to talk about again. More recently, its Ypsilon city car proved very popular.

But the soft, sinuous lines for which many remember Lancia need a large canvas to really work.

Lancia's last commercially successful flagship was the 1985 Thema. The Thema's successor, the Kappa, had not done quite as well, despite plaudits for its refinement, packaging, and capable chassis. Some said that Kappa's use of an Alfa Romeo platform had condemned it to also-ran status.

Determined to regain its stature, Lancia decided to pull out all the stops. In 1995, it launched itself into researching what the typical Lancia customer - the "enlightened bourgeois of the 1950s and 1960s," as Fiat Auto managing director Roberto Testore put it - would want at the turn of the Millennium.

The answer came in the form of Mike Vernon Robinson's stunning "Diàlogos" concept of the 1998 Turin Motor Show. The high front, long bonnet, and profile resembling an upside-down wedge marked a new formal language, one which refuted the school of rational forms in favor of emotional elegance. Its large, vertical grille was flanked by diamond-shaped headlamps; its sculpted, shapely fenders broke away from the hood line in a manner similar to cars of the Thirties and Forties. All of this bucked the trend for over-rational, visually spare shapes.

"Exciting elegance goes far beyond rational utility to leave space for the imagination," Lancia enthused. Though controversial, the look successfully averted the customary protruding bumper and consequent front overhang of front-wheel-drive cars.

Neither Fiat nor Alfa Romeo had anything rear-wheel drive. The new Lancia flagship - unlike the Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs with which it would compete - would thus be front-drive. That apart, however, Lancia promised that the Thesis platform would not be shared with any other cars in the Fiat group. Fiat had virtually invented platform sharing, but was now developing spaceframe technology which allowed the basic chassis to be tailored to different cars, with flexible dimensions and flexible mountings.

Inside, innovative telematics technology would prove that the Italians had, finally, mastered multiplexing; with the added bonus of providing intriguing contrast to the retro exterior. There would be a seven-inch TFT color display in the dashboard, with navigation, voice recognition, a hands-free phone, and an optional television. Other options of note would include radar cruise-control, a sunroof with solar cells to power the air conditioning when the vehicle was parked in the sun, dual climate zones for the rear passengers, power assistance when opening the doors, tri-fan ventilated and massaging seats, an electronic parking brake, and an eleven-speaker Bose audio system.

Each Thesis would get eight air bags as standard, and electronic stability control.

The doors would close as soundly as those of a Mercedes E-Class, and the materials employed in the cabin would be used not merely for appearance, for also for the tactile and acoustic reactions they aroused.

"People will be looking for excuses not to buy this car. So, we wanted to be damn sure we didn't give them anything to hook onto," Robinson told CAR magazine.

Underlining the technology within were bi-xenon headlights and thirty LEDs per taillight.

The Italians were particularly proud of their telematics system which, they promised, was the easiest to use around. This, remember, was just as BMW's iDrive launched in the E65 7 series, confounding journalists and owners alike.

However, like the French , the Italians had never been particularly good at electronic gadgetry. The car suffered several delays.

"Trimmed as it is in acres of (real) wood, leather, and alcantara, it's sure to become a favorite among Europe's executive class," wrote Frank Markus for Car and Driver in February 2001 upon seeing the finished result at Geneva.

"The cabin is truly rich, and walks the right side of that line in Italian style dividing the perfectly proportioned minimalism from their bling-bling rap-star Versace vulgarity," said Paul Horrell for CAR. Horrell was particularly impressed with the lightly-varnished wood trim and cast magnesium in the center console. "I can't tell you how much more satisfying it is to use a cupholder or ashtray that glides out of solid metal than some clacky plastic lid."

The car would be named "Thesis" which, like Thema, recalled a letter from classical Greek. This, said Lancia, conjured up the image of culture, while also conveying the idea of advanced scientific research and state-of-the-art technology.

Originally planned to launch in 2000, the Thesis in April 2002 finally became the largest and most luxurious sedan in the Fiat Group portfolio.

To Lancia's credit, the challenging front and rear fasciae of the concept had been retained for production. Yet something had been lost in translation; mostly, perhaps, in the flanks. Something about those door frames seemed more plebian than the rest of the car, and that bulging waistline, much though (as design critic Stephen Bayley has suggested ) it might have recalled the 1965 Flaminia, did not quite fit.

Rumor had it that some degree of inflexibility in Fiat's early spaceframe strategy had forced the change in proportions.

Whatever the reason, the Thesis tended to photograph as though three cars: front, sides, and rear. Not for nothing was it frequently described as simultaneously pleasantly controversial yet frustratingly mellow.

On the road, where the human eye tends to focus on one aspect, the Thesis' lines worked better. Front and rear, from a dead-on perspective, it looked at least as rich as the German competition, and certainly exhibited more character.

To drive, Thesis should have been fairly capable. Its aluminum front suspension was a development of the traditional double-wishbone layout, which enthusiasts find preferable to MacPherson struts. Five links controlled the movement of the front wheels, yet kept virtual steering axle as close as possible to the wheel center, to benefit steering accuracy and response. At the rear, various arms in aluminum, steel, and cast iron provided a fair degree of passive rear steer. Grip was decent, particularly for a car which weighed four thousand pounds. Predictably, the nose would eventually run wide under hard cornering, but the lack of feel through the steering was as frustrating as its non-linear response.

The odd twitchiness of the chassis could pay off, however, as the Thesis was throttle steerable. Lift off, and balance would be restored.

The silent cabin, with its five-millimeter glazing, met a ride that was very good indeed. For the body control, and superlative smoothness over the most pocked roads, one could thank Maserati, who (together with Mannesmann-Sachs) had engineered those six-sensor, semi-active dampers for its Spyder sports car. More akin to a Jaguar than to the German competition, so good was the suspension's ride quality that it even had a name: "Skyhook." Buick would unofficially borrow that name to describe the ride of its own cars.

Predictably, the Thesis' most popular engine was the torquey yet economical 2.4-liter JTD diesel. Surprisingly in thrifty and displacement-taxed Europe, gasoline buyers bypassed the two-liter turbocharged and 2.4-liter five-cylinder models in favor of the sonorous, Alfa-derived three-liter 24-valve V-6.

Lancia had invented the V-6, and this particular engine revved happily to its 6,300-rpm power peak, and 7,000-rpm red-line, producing 215 horsepower and 194 foot-pounds of torque. That made for a top speed of one hundred and forty-six mph; but the Thesis’ sheer heft ultimately conspired against it, resulting in a rather relaxed, 9.2-second 0-60 mph time.

A 3.2-liter V-6 was also available. Plans were made to offer Cadillac's Northstar V-8 and a three-liter Isuzu V-6 diesel was offered as well (to be shared with the Saab 9-5 and Renault Vel Satis), but Fiat's messy divorce from General Motors in 2002 put paid to that.

Thesis was supposed to support an effort to push Lancia sales from just one hundred and fifty thousand in 2001, to three hundred thousand by 2008.

However, Thesis failed to hit even the modest sales goals Lancia had set for it: a mere thirteen thousand and two hundred units in 2002, and hopes for twenty-five thousand in 2003. Mind you, in true Italian fashion, they could never quite agree on a target. Juan Jose Diaz Ruiz, executive vice-president for marketing and sales, was more ambitious. He foresaw annual sales of thirty-five thousand cars.

In the end, they sold just sixteen thousand over seven years. Sales ran through 2009, but the Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi triumvirate was never threatened. More to the point, the Thesis couldn't nearly match the sales of its Kappa predecessor; and the Kappa, in turn, had not done as well as the Thema before it.

Lancia took the failure on the chin, having invested four hundred and five million euros in the project (one hundred and eighty-five million for R&D, and two hundred and twenty-one for tooling).

Following 2010’s Fiat/ Chrysler tie-up, Lancia CEO Olivier François took on the additional role of Chrysler CEO. He saw a parallel between the two brands. For the past ten years, he noted, both had strived to offer, to varying degrees, a quietly elegant, near-luxury experience. Both were positioned as style-conscious brands for upwardly mobile, trend-setting customers.

François was widely regarded to have done a good job at Lancia with limited resources. Despite the long-running Ypsilon and Musa both being based on the floorpan of the last-generation Fiat Punto, and though the Lancia Delta was constrained in its proportions by the Fiat Bravo platform, Fiat’s near-luxury brand had ridden out the effects of the economic downturn remarkably effectively. In a down market which had battered the auto industry, Lancia’s sales in 2009 had remained flat.

But François would sound Lancia's death knoll when he rebadged various Chryslers - including a minivan - as Lancias.

Today, Lancia sells cars only in Italy - and its only car is the little Ypsilon hatchback. The brand is not expected to last much longer.

What a pity. Thesis was a colorful car in a conservative segment - a dignified expression of what Lancia thought its brand could be in the modern era. However, after several years of lackluster cars, for one model to muster the distinction to support a hefty price tag was always going to be a tall order. And the relevance of Lancia's somewhat muddled brand values, post-Millennium, was at best debatable.

Writing for CAR, Paul Horrell saw this clearly at the time. "Imagine a Rover 95 (a theoretical step-up from the British brand's retro 75, which debuted at roughly the same time as the Thesis and which also proved to be its maker's swansong) and you would be spookily close.

"It's a scary thought: two brands that refuse to be youthful or sporty (are the) two brands that have underperformed."

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Le Corbusier’s triumphant return to Moscow

The exhibition of French prominent architect Le Corbusier, held in The Pushkin Museum, brings together the different facets of his talent. Source: ITAR-TASS / Stanislav Krasilnikov

The largest Le Corbusier exhibition in a quarter of a century celebrates the modernist architect’s life and his connection with the city.

Given his affinity with Moscow, it is perhaps surprising that the city had never hosted a major examination of Le Corbusier’s work until now. However, the Pushkin Museum and the Le Corbusier Fund have redressed that discrepancy with the comprehensive exhibition “Secrets of Creation: Between Art and Architecture,” which runs until November 18.

Presenting over 400 exhibits, the exhibition charts Le Corbusier’s development from the young man eagerly sketching buildings on a trip around Europe, to his later years as a prolific and influential architect.

The exhibition brings together the different facets of his talent, showing his publications, artwork and furniture design alongside photographs, models and blueprints of his buildings.

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Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum, said, “It was important for us to also exhibit his art. People know Le Corbusier the architect, but what is less well know is that he was also an artist. Seeing his art and architecture together gives us an insight into his mind and his thought-processes.”

What becomes obvious to visitors of the exhibition is that Le Corbusier was a man driven by a single-minded vision of how form and lines should interact, a vision he was able to express across multiple genres.

The upper wings of the Pushkin Museum are separated by the central stairs and two long balconies. The organizers have exploited this space, allowing comparison of Le Corbusier’s different art forms. On one side there are large paintings in the Purist style he adapted from Cubism, while on the other wall there are panoramic photographs of his famous buildings.

Le Corbusier was a theorist, producing many pamphlets and manifestos which outlined his view that rigorous urban planning could make society more productive and raise the average standard of living.

It was his affinity with constructivism, and its accompanying vision of the way architecture could shape society, which drew him to visit the Soviet Union, where, as he saw it, there existed a “nation that is being organized in accordance with its new spirit.”

The exhibition’s curator Jean-Louis Cohen explains that Le Corbusier saw Moscow as “somewhere he could experiment.” Indeed, when the architect was commissioned to construct the famous Tsentrosoyuz Building, he responded by producing a plan for the entire city, based on his concept of geometric symmetry.

Falling foul of the political climate

He had misread the Soviet appetite for experimentation, and as Cohen relates in his book Le Corbusier, 1887-1965, drew stinging attacks from the likes of El Lissitsky, who called his design “a city on paper, extraneous to living nature, located in a desert through which not even a river must be allowed to pass (since a curve would contradict the style).”

Not to be deterred, Le Corbusier returned to Moscow in 1932 and entered the famous Palace of the Soviets competition, a skyscraper that was planned to be the tallest building in the world.

This time he fell foul of the changing political climate, as Stalin’s growing suspicion of the avant-garde led to the endorsement of neo-classical designs for the construction, which was ultimately never built due to the Second World War.

Situated opposite the proposed site for the Palace of the Soviets, the exhibition offers a tantalizing vision of what might have been, presenting scale models alongside Le Corbusier’s plans, and generating the feeling of an un-built masterpiece.

Despite Le Corbusier’s fluctuating fortunes in Soviet society, there was one architect who never wavered in his support . Constructivist luminary Alexander Vesnin declared that the Tsentrosoyuz building was the "the best building to arise in Moscow for over a century.”

The exhibition sheds light on their professional and personal relationship, showing sketches and letters they exchanged. In a radical break from the abstract nature of most of Le Corbusier’s art, this corner of the exhibition highlights the sometimes volatile architect’s softer side, as shown through nude sketches and classical still-life paintings he sent to Vesnin.

“He was a complex person” says Cohen. “It’s important to show his difficult elements; his connections with the USSR, with Mussolini. Now that relations between Russia and the West have improved, we can examine this. At the moment there is a new season in Le Corbusier interpretation.” To this end, the exhibition includes articles that have never previously been published in Russia, as well as Le Corbusier’s own literature.

Completing Le Corbusier’s triumphant return to Russia is a preview of a forthcoming statue, to be erected outside the Tsentrosoyuz building. Even if she couldn’t quite accept his vision of a planned city, Moscow is certainly welcoming him back.

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Reviving classic Russian cuisine

Oct 19 2018.

Roads & Kingdoms talks to Russian chef Vladimir Mukhin of Moscow’s super-restaurant, White Rabbit.

Still in his mid-30’s, Vladimir Mukhin is already one of Russia’s best known chefs and the leading culinary light of the White Rabbit Group, which has 16 restaurants around the country. The most well-known of these, Moscow’s White Rabbit , was named one of the 50 best restaurants in the world last year. Roads & Kingdoms’ Nathan Thornburgh talked to Mukhin in Moscow about being a fifth-generation chef, reviving classic Russian cuisine, and finding good product in the age of embargoes.

Nathan Thornburgh: Tell me about White Rabbit, what is the food? What are you trying to accomplish there?

Vladimir Mukhin: The White Rabbit is a big restaurant. We’re trying to revive Russian cuisine. I’m a fifth-generation chef, so I’m passionate about the food we create. During the Soviet Union period, we killed Russian food. Classic Russian recipes became too simplified. For example, usually you drink tea, but if you want to be, just to be creative, want to make the tea with milk, you can’t. It would be like stealing milk from the government. People went to jail.

When I was growing up, I remember my grandfather coming to the kitchen and crying because he couldn’t experiment with his food.

Thornburgh: Wow. I remember this famous photo session with Che Guevara which came up with some of his best pictures, maybe two incredible iconic portraits came from an entire roll of film, and the photographer went to him and showed him this roll of film and Che said, What the hell are you doing? You wasted all of these images. You took 30 pictures to get one? That’s the government’s film. It’s a similar mentality. So you’re telling the story of a kind of cuisine that was lost on the Soviet history and now you’re playing with this idea of finding it again. What does your process look like? Do you get as many grandmothers as you can round up and just kind of shake recipes out of them? How were you doing this?

Mukhin: I just try to work with as many local farmers and producers as I can, so we can use as many Russian ingredients as we can.

Thornburgh: So this is a close relationship.

Mukhin: Yes. I traveled throughout Russia—not just the big cities, but also the villages to talk with older people.

Thornburgh: You know I think people don’t understand the vastness of Russia, and how big it’s collection of cultures and languages and cuisines is. What parts of the country influences your food?

Mukhin: I’m inspired by the whole country. It’s a big territory, and sometimes it feels like it’s too big. I try and use different techniques and ingredients from all over the country, which I think makes my menus distinct.

We have an a la carte menu with about 50 dishes of classical Russian food. Everything looks modern because I’m a young chef. But if you close your eyes and try these dishes, you’ll taste 100% classic Russian flavors.

I want to highlight all aspects of Russian cuisine. Before the Olympic Games in Sochi, we opened a restaurant there, not just to make money, but to expose people visiting for the Olympics to Russian food. That’s why we opened The Red Fox restaurant. It’s all about Russian ingredients.

Thornburgh: Sochi, at least when I’ve been there, is like a Miami Beach. It’s like a place to get pizza and sushi, and go to the nightclubs.

Mukhin: You been?

Thornburgh: Yeah.

Mukhin: It’s crazy.

Thornburgh: It’s a little crazy, but it’s interesting to bring in Red Fox and sort of say okay, because people are coming out, let’s bring Russia to Sochi.

Mukhin: It was incredible. We had thousands of visitors at the restaurant.

Thornburgh: So you really looked internally for inspiration. Did working outside of Russia motivate you to focus on Russian cuisine?

Mukhin: Yes. I spent time working in Avignon, France. I worked with Christian Etienne, and he would make a special Russian meal once a year. It was crazy.

Thornburgh: How was the food?

Mukhin: It was shit. I told him that I would cook real Russian food for him, and I did. I cooked borscht, blinis, and other classics. He liked it and said that once a year we should use my recipes, but with his influence. I agreed, and we went on to make amazing food. Eventually, I wanted to come back to my motherland. So I left and I started working on making White Rabbit a reality.

Thornburgh: When people go to White Rabbit, what are they going to find?

Mukhin: Someone once told me that there is a new Russian cuisine and an old Russian cuisine. I think Russian cuisine is going through an evolution. So I hope people will come and see evolution at White Rabbit.

Thornburgh: Great. Always good to end on an invite. Thank you.

Mukhin: Thank you so much.

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