Lancia Lybra

This is the catalogue record of the Lancia Lybra, one of 116 models Lancia has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1998. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lancia Lybra properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Cadillac Cadillac Escalade, the Saab Automobile Saab 9-3, the Ford Ford Focus — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lancia Lybra reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.6 L Fiat 128 SOHC engine / Fiat Torque 16V Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L Fiat Pratola Serra modular engines / Fiat Family B 16V I4 / 2.0&n; kerb weight is recorded at 1250 -; drive goes through 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Aisin-Warner / AISIN automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Lancia story

Within Lancia's own catalogue the Lancia Lybra sits alongside the Lancia 037, the Lancia 2000, the Lancia Alfa-12HP, the Lancia Appia. The record names the Lancia Dedra as its predecessor and the class = Compact executive car (D) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Centro Stile Lancia: / Enrico Fumia (initial design) / Mike Robinson (designer) / Mike Robinson (final design) / Flavio Manzoni (interior). Assembly is recorded at Italy: / Turin Rivalta di Torino / Rivalta plant (1998–2002) / Turin Mirafiori (2002–2005).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Lancia Lybra was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.