Start with what the Lancia Artena is: a Bare chassis / 4-door, 4-seater Sedan (car) / saloon / 4-door, 6-seater Sedan (car) / saloon with 1,924 , built from 1931 to 1942, when streamlining and independent suspension were arriving together. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Lancia Artena (Tipo 228) is a passenger car produced by Italian car manufacturer Lancia from 1931 until 1936, and from 1940 until 1942 chiefly for army and government use. It was powered by a 2-litre Lancia V4 engine, while chassis and factory bodies were shared with the more luxurious 2.6-litre V8-engined Lancia Astura. Total production amounted to 5,567 examples.
The hardware
The engine is 1,924 . On the scales it comes to 1350 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is Series I–II: / 2990 mm / Series III: / 2950 , / Series IV: / 3180 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Lancia line-up the Lancia Artena has a clear place: it replaced the Lancia Lambda. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Chevrolet Suburban, the Bugatti Type 57, the Alfa Romeo 8C. Its Lancia stablemates include the Lancia 037 and the Lancia 2000.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Lancia Artena — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.