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Lancia is an Italian Automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat group since 1969 . It was the first company to produce a V6 engine and a V4 engine. However, these engines had extremely narrow angulation of less than 30 degrees, instead of the ideal of 60 degrees for a V6 and 90 degrees for a V4 (or V8). This meant that the banks of cylinders overlapped at the end near the crankshaft. During the 1980s , the company cooperated with Saab Automobile , with the Lancia Delta being sold as the Saab 600 in Sweden . The 1985 Lancia Thema also shared a platform with the Saab 9000 , Fiat Croma and the Alfa Romeo 164 . One of the firm's trademarks is the use of letters of the Greek alphabet as the names of its models - other than "Alpha"; that's necessarily taken up by Alfa Romeo . In the United Kingdom , Lancia increasingly suffered from image problems during the 1980s associated with rust (though in reality, the Lancia Beta truly deserved this reputation, due to Fiat's infamous utilization of inferior Russia n steel), and pulled out of the UK market in 1994 . Since then no Right Hand Drive models have been produced. In the United States , Lancias were sold from 1977 until 1984 . It was withdrawn at the same time as Fiat. Lancia is famous for many innovations concerning the automobile sector. These include the first full-production V6 engine, in the 1950 Aurelia , and earlier experiments with V8 and V12 engine configurations. Measured in WRC victories, Lancia is by far the most successful brand in rally cars. MODELS
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