Lancia Appia

The Lancia Appia is a passenger car introduced in 1953 by the Italian car manufacturer Lancia as the replacement for the Ardea, and it stayed in production for ten years. It was the last Lancia in a line stretching back to the 1922 Lambda to use sliding pillar front suspension, and all three series had a 1,089 cc Lancia V4 engine, designed under Vittorio Jano with a bank angle a little over 10 degrees, the narrowest of any V4. Besides the saloon there were special bodies including a Pinin Farina coupe, a Vignale convertible and two-door saloon and a Zagato GT, plus light commercial versions. In total 107,000 were built, of which 98,000 were saloons, 3,863 commercial vehicles and 5,161 chassis for coachbuilders. It was named after the Roman road Via Appia.