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Lancia Musa

The Lancia Musa (Type 350) is a five-passenger compact MPV manufactured by Fiat, and marketed by the company's Lancia subdivision for model years 2004 through to 2012. A front-engine, front-wheel-drive, five-door design and a modified variant of the Fiat Idea, the Musa also employs the Project 188 platform, originally used for the second generation Fiat Punto. Total Musa production was about 237,500.[4]

Background

The Musa design, an adaption of the Fiat Idea by Fabrizio Giugiaro, was initially supervised by Flavio Manzoni and subsequently Marco Tencone. It debuted at the 2004 Geneva Motor Show and deliveries began in Europe in October of the same year. The Musa's front and rear-end styling bears resemblance to the technically related Lancia Ypsilon, with which it shares headlights.[5] As a compact MPV (multi-purpose vehicle), the Musa is considered to form part of the B-segment of the European car market.[3]

The interior features Alcantara or leather, as well as chrome details. Like the Fiat Idea, the Musa offers an automated manual transmission marketed as Dolce Far Niente (D.F.N.) — for all engines except the eight valve version of the 1.4 FIRE.[6]

Facelift

A revised, mildly facelifted Musa premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and debuted at Frankfurt Auto Show in October 2007, with a revised logo of Lancia, front bumper fascia with new chrome moldings, bodyside moldings with chrome inserts, LED rear lamps and a luggage compartment seventy litres larger, while and loading deck lowered by 4 cm, as well as revised headliner soundproofing in the headliner. Options including FCA's integrated In Vehicle Infotainment system (marketed as Blue&Me), new body colours and equipment. In 2008, for the market in Italy, Lancia introduced the EcoChic version with 1.4 Fire 8v dual power (LPG and petrol) engine. In 2009, Lancia introduced a start-stop system with the 1.4 Fire 16v and 1.3 Multijet II Euro 5 engines, the latter with 95 PS.

Engines

External links

Fiat Idea

References

  1. Mirafiori closed temporarily, Lancia Musa out of production autoedizione.com, retrieved 2012-05-29^
  2. Fiat's New, Serbia-Made Model May Succeed Idea, Lancia Musa Bloomberg Business, 2011-09-21, retrieved 2015-11-09^
  3. Eóin Doyle. The Muse of Melpomene Driven to Write, March 23, 2018^
  4. Domestic production - breakdown by makes and models Anfia.it, 31 March 2016, retrieved 13 August 2019^
  5. – accessed via the Wayback Machine Lancia Musa The Lancia pages @www.CarsfromItaly.com, retrieved 2006-10-12^
  6. Lancia Musa MPV Global Auto Index, retrieved 2006-10-12^