The Lancia Lambda was an innovative automobile produced from 1922 through 1931. It was the first car to feature a load-bearing monocoque-type body, and it also pioneered the use of an independent suspension (the front sliding pillar with coil springs). Lancia even invented a shock absorber for the car. Approximately 11,200 Lambdas were produced. Jump to: navigation, search Lancia is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia, part of the Fiat group since 1969. ... Jump to: navigation, search A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... This page lists superlatives of the automobile industry - that is, the smallest, largest, fastest, lightest, best-selling, and other such topics. ... Monocoque (French for single shell) or unibody is a construction technique that uses the external skin of an object to support some or most of the load on the structure. ... An Independent Suspension is an automobile suspension system that allows the wheels on an axle to move independent of each other. ... A sliding pillar suspension is one in which a wheel is positioned laterally and longitudinally by a circular piece which slides vertically along a simple rod (the pillar). ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A shock absorber in United States parlance (sometimes damper in British use) is a mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp a sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy. ...

The narrow-angle aluminum Lancia V4 engine was also notable. All three displacements shared the same long 120 mm stroke, and all were SOHC designs with a single camshaft serving both banks of cylinders. Lancia pioneered the vee engine design, producing the first V6 as well as the first V4s. ... Single overhead cam (also SOHC) refers to the internal combustion engine design where one camshaft is located above the valves. ...

Engines:

• 2119 cc (75 mm bore, 13° vee), 49 hp (36.5 kW) at 3250 rpm
• 2370 cc (79.37 mm bore, 14° vee), 59 hp (44 kW) at 3250 rpm
• 2568 cc (82.55 mm bore, 13°40' vee), 69 hp (51.5 kW) at 3500 rpm

References

• Ray Bonds (2003). The Illustrated Directory of Sports Cars, Motorbooks. ISBN 0760314209
• "Interwar Lancia Cars". Cars From Italy. URL accessed on March 11, 2005.