Chrysler Delta

AMKC

https://www.autotrader.ie/browse-used-cars/chrysler/delta/used-2014-141-chrysler-delta-1-4-m-ai-dublin-fpa-272979555388659


Beautiful car. Why are there not more of these in Ireland? I seen one yesterday Monday. A white one with a black roof and thought what a beautiful car. Such a breath of fresh air.

Graham 1324

Are you actually for real?? Seriously the state of that thing you have got to be takin' the pistachio..

laurpat

AMKC wrote: »

https://www.autotrader.ie/browse-used-cars/chrysler/delta/used-2014-141-chrysler-delta-1-4-m-ai-dublin-fpa-272979555388659


Beautiful car. Why are there not more of these in Ireland? I seen one yesterday Monday. A white one with a black roof and thought what a beautiful car. Such a breath of fresh air.

I was in the Lancia delta in Italy when it was first launched and the comfort was amazing. The Chrysler is just a rebage i'm guessing... I think they are a beautiful car... In particular the styling of the rear...

Am I right in saying this is a Fiat in disguise?

Nuw

Yes, if I'm not mistaken the delta is a longer fiat bravo with fiat engines. The engines are nice, but that plateform is 10 years old now... Not sure what they're like to drive to be honest.

Arthur Daley

Sad for a great marque that Lancia tried with this car, but it quickly gets rebadged Chrysler and then taken off the market. You see the odd one around, not bad cars at launch in 2009. Timing of launch didn't help it. Something a bit different on our roads than Golf/focus/hyndai/kia

TigerTim

There's a white one in Tralee owned by a Lancia enthusiast. Not bad looking "in the flesh". Don't know what its like to drive.

T.

AMKC

Graham 1324 wrote: »

Are you actually for real?? Seriously the state of that thing you have got to be takin' the pistachio..

No its a breath of fresh air and looks much better and more modern than some new cars. You can stick with your car for people with no imagination then like a VW Golf.

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Sad for a great marque that Lancia tried with this car, but it quickly gets rebadged Chrysler and then taken off the market. You see the odd one around, not bad cars at launch in 2009. Timing of launch didn't help it. Something a bit different on our roads than Golf/focus/hyndai/kia

Yes that was a mistake. They should have sold them here and in the UK as Lancia's and they might have been more successful instead of rebadging it as a Chrysler but they make a great second hand buy now.

colm_mcm

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Sad for a great marque that Lancia tried with this car, but it quickly gets rebadged Chrysler and then taken off the market. You see the odd one around, not bad cars at launch in 2009. Timing of launch didn't help it. Something a bit different on our roads than Golf/focus/hyndai/kia

laurpat wrote: »

I was in the Lancia delta in Italy when it was first launched and the comfort was amazing. The Chrysler is just a rebage i'm guessing... I think they are a beautiful car... In particular the styling of the rear...

Am I right in saying this is a Fiat in disguise?

Shows how out of touch they are with potential customers. Apparently they didn’t use the Lancia badge because in the 80s/90s Lancia had a huge rust problem which led to them exiting the uk market. The thinking was that used at the name was that the Lancia brand was tainted so they went with the Chrysler name, which is basically dirt in Europe and was totally at odds with Lancia quirky styling. They could totally have used the brands Italian heritage and made a go of it but they half assed it.

Arthur Daley

They launched in Ireland initially as Lancia Delta, and then all Lancia's got badged as Chrysler. So you could find the odd one from 09 or so with Lancia badges. 09 being the worst year possible for Lancia to try and make a comeback to RHD markets.

colm_mcm

Are you sure? I think I remember when the Delta was launched here

Wasn’t it 2011 when they came out?

Harry Palmr

If Lancia is a damaged brand what's Chrysler? Nothing but utter tat since they returned to the RHD market.

ba_barabus

colm_mcm wrote: »

Wasn’t it 2011 when they came out?

Yep. Talk of a Lancia rhd relaunch was confirmed in 09 and cancelled in 10 in preference of a Chrysler relaunch.

A stupid mistake but I don't think the market would have taken to Lancia anyway at the time

R.O.R

The Delta was pretty much a re-badged/re-styled Giulietta - was slightly larger than the Alfa and that's the reason I supplied 3 for a customer who could only order FIAT/Alfa products.

Only out for 2 years and I seem to remember they were pretty good for reliability, despite doing 50k + a year. Biggest issue we had with them was when trying to book them in to FIAT/Alfa dealers as most of them didn't know what a Chrysler Delta was.

There was 1 QV model registered in Ireland. It's not registered as a QV (can't remember what it was registered as) but it was a UK QV model that was brought over and had the clocks changed.

jca

Jesus that's horrid. It's like a Focus and a Leaf had a love child but the hospital messed up the birth.

bear1

I actually like it, you can get a 190 twin turbo diesel version which would be a serious car to go.
You can get pretty good standard equipment on them too.
They are a love hate kind of car but I can see the quirkiness of it

road_high

Wasn't a bad car, but sticking Chrysler badges on was market suicide. They are dirt in the eyes of the buying public with zero credibility or image.

cml387

road_high wrote: »

Wasn't a bad car, but sticking Chrysler badges on was market suicide. They are dirt in the eyes of the buying public with zero credibility or image.

I would have thought that the Lancia Beta rust disaster was long enough ago to be forgotten.

Whereas Chrysler :rolleyes: