Lancia Dialogos

The Lancia Dialogos is an Italian luxury concept car that was presented in saloon form at the 1998 Turin Motor Show. It was developed from August 1996 by the in-house Centro Stile Lancia under chief designer Mike Robinson, and at 1.95 m wide with a 3.05 m wheelbase it is a very large car built around a living room idea of the cabin. Its rear doors open backwards without a central pillar to recall the Aurelia saloon, the front seats swivel through 90 degrees or 180 degrees to form a sofa, and the controls sit at the centre. Lancia carried many of its technologies into the Thesis saloon of 2001, whose styling came from the Dialogos, and a one-off Giubileo version powered by a 3.0 litre Alfa Romeo V6 was given to Pope John Paul II in 2000.