Spies and leakers are causing major headaches for automakers, altering their painstakingly planned strategy of drip-feeding teaser photos and tech breadcrumbs by revealing more about new cars than their brands would like. And this week, we can add car thieves to the list of villains.
Had things gone according to plan for the revitalized Lancia this week, news related to the Stellantis luxury logo would have focused entirely on the launch of a moment symbol for Ypsilon, which is scheduled to launch in February. But instead, the new press symbol released has been forced to fight to get our attention with symbols of a prototype Ypsilon dragged from a canal following its apparent theft at the French factory that will release them to the thousands next spring.
The canal catastrophe is a PR nightmare for Lancia, because it revealed so much about the new Ypsilon that wasn’t clear from our previous spy shots of camouflaged cars. But the one saving grace is that it didn’t give us a clear look at the front-end, and specifically the digital light signature that will help us identify the Peugeot 208-derived supermini on the road. Which is where today’s new teaser comes in.
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Although teaser symbol number 2 is conscientiously illuminated and the car is laid out in a way that avoids giving everything away, it leaves us in no doubt that this is a subcompact heavily incentivized by this year’s Pu Ra HPE concept. We can see three slats of ultra-thin LED lights arranged in a Y-shape that act as running lights, a black visor on the front edge of the bonnet with the so-called “Lancia” and fixed head appearances on the edges of the bonnet. the front bumper.
Images from the channel have already shown that the Ypsilon will feature taillights also encouraged by the circular taillights of the Pu Ra Stratos, and we know from a mix of Lancia’s previous teaser symbol and our own spy images that the interior is circular in shape. Lid on console and velvet seats. Things are less personalized under the skin: the Ypsilon uses the same Stellantis E-CMP platform as cars like the Peugeot 208 and Opel Corsa and will offer the same combination of gasoline and electric engines.