If only Lancia fitted a D25 engine in these Sports or Supersports, they would have left the 300sl and 250 Ferrari in the dust! These cars were insanely expensive anyway, so the extra expense for this more powerful engine, with subsequent increased performance, could in imho have been defended. As it was, these expensive cars din't sell very well in the day, I think partly because at this price the competition offered more in terms of performance.

I think there's a lot of truth in your comment about performance. @@bartboosman953

Performance is easy to judge and compare from road tests carried out by the various magazines. The high quality of engineering and construction these cars offered need more than a quick inspection in the showroom. @@bartboosman953

Ben detto, la Flaminia è stata l'apoteosi dello sviluppo Lancia, nato con l'Aurelia. Proprio l'Aurelia si era rivelata tecnicamente superiore alla sua antagonista di fascia l'Alfa Romeo 1900. E lo dico, ammirato, da Alfista. Infatti alla Mille miglia la B20 arrivò seconda assoluta, guadagnandosi l'amministrazione...di Enzo Ferrari ( che aveva espresso il desiderio, in una lettera all'Ing. De Virgilio, di averne una). È stata un'epoca irripetibile e da tutto il mondo venivano da noi per farsi realizzare queste meraviglie. Tutte le Case automobilistiche italiane facevano belle e buone auto, Fiat compresa. La Lancia eccelleva e non aveva niente da invidiare da nessuno. Dobbiamo esserne orgogliosi. P.s. questa Flaminia Super Sport Zagato viaggia e canta che è una bellezza!

To expand a bit. Back in the late 60's/mid 70's I had Flavia with the Pf body. That was an excellent car for me, in my early 20's. It handled exceptionally well, with a supple ride. The straight-line performance was not in the same class as even a standard Holden/Falcon/Valiant, but the handling more than compensated for this and it was easy to set up very safe high average journey times. The Flaminia was for an older person. It's hard to describe the quality of these cars. The engineering was outstanding as was the construction of the cars as a whole. They were let down by poor rustproofing, typical of most cars at the time, but not what you'd expect from a Lancia.

Unfortunately, all petrol cars will soon be banned in the EU and the USA! In France there is a new law prohibiting combustion engine cars called SCHLABOUBVE and in Switzerland the HESCHLAVVO law! In the Scandinavian countries there will soon be a so-called SMORVERBIDEN law) Habeck has probably announced a federal exhaust gas ban ordinance for Germany from 2027!

@@Schlipperschlopper Have no idea what you said about Scandinavia but we don't have a word or law like that here, or in germany as far as I know.