The Dedra was developed alongside the FIAT Tempra on the Tipo floorpan as a medium size saloon. Designed by the IDEA studio, the four-door saloon body has an excellent drag coefficient of only 0.29. Petrol engines initially offered were a 1581cc SOHC (90bhp), a 1756cc DOHC (110bhp) and a 1995cc DOHC (120bhp). All three were fitted with fuel injection, and the latter two had twin contra-rotating balancer shafts in the block. A 1929cc turbodiesel (90bhp) was also available.
By Daniel Vaughan | Jun 2010
By Daniel Vaughan | Jun 2010
Related Reading : Lancia Dedra History
The Lancia Dedra, like other Lancia products of the time, was not much more than a fancy Fiat. Lancia, once the producer of some of the worlds most finely engineered automobiles, was taken over by Fiat in 1969 and would never fully recover its independent thinking or engineering prowess.Since the Fiat takeover, Lancia has built plenty of good cars—but rarely have they exuded the fine qualities....
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