Lunar landscape or Swiss cheese from Italy
06/19/2021
Most people have probably long forgotten this interior, but at the beginning of the 1980s the design creativity of the Lancia designers was much talked about. This "Swiss cheese" (original quote from "auto motor und sport") could be found in the Lancia Trevi 2000 I.E., the Jetta of the Beta series, so to speak.
The ams reviewat the time was not really benevolent:
"... the two dozen or so smaller oval holes conceal just as many pushbuttons and indicator lights, the intricate functioning of which remains a closed book even after studying the operating instructions. Even the Lancia people don't have much faith in the functionality of their futuristic fittings. It is not for nothing that they give the Trevi owner a four-color printed "memorandum" as a cheat sheet in addition to the owner's manual, on which the most important switches and warning lights are explained again in short form.
When six different toggle switches, pushbuttons and rotary knobs labeled with confusing abbreviations are needed to operate the heating and ventilation system, which doesn't even work effectively, this really has nothing to do with originality ."
Today, this lunar landscape in the Trevi looks extremely iconic, which incidentally also applies to the Trevi itself. When was the last time you saw one of these cars on the street?
We will, of course, publish a detailed report on the Lancia saloon.
