The Lancia Trikappa is a Torpedo / Coupé de ville from Lancia, built from 1922 to 1925, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: 4,594 . The total made was 847.
The story
The Lancia Trikappa is an automobile produced by Lancia between 1922 and 1925. It was a luxury car, offered as the flagship of Lancia's production. The Trikappa 4.5-litre V8 is notable as the first of Lancia's narrow V engines, a distinguishing feature the manufacturer only abandoned in the 1970s.
The car was offered as a bare rolling chassis, as torpedo or 6-seater coupé de ville. In total 847 were manufactured. Lancia had been experimenting with V engines since the First World War, even showcasing a chassis with a narrow V 12-cylinder engine at the 1919 Paris Motor Show. In the end V12 engined cars were estimated to be too expensive to produce and a V8 was used instead.
What is underneath
Power comes from 4,594 . It weighs 1360 kg. It shifts 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 3384 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Lancia Dilambda. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the British Motor Corporation Austin 7, the Opel 10/30 PS, the Rolls-Royce Twenty — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Lancia catalogue sit the Lancia 037 and the Lancia 2000.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Lancia Trikappa has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.