{"id":29022,"date":"2012-11-20T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=29022"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:50:51","slug":"lancia-orca-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/lancia-orca-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancia Orca Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People have mixed opinions about wheel mounted controls. For some they are the perfect ergonomic solution, and for other’s a pointlessly modern way to detract from the classic business of an oldtimer drive.<\/p>\n

One of the first volleys in the battle for wheel-mounted controls was launched by Italdesign’s 1982 Lancia Orca concept. For us the car looks much more like one of Marcello Gandini’s Citroen designs <\/a>than anything that should bear the Lancia badge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The car scored a ridiculous drag coefficient of 0.245, but it was the interior that was most interesting.<\/p>\n

Looking like something out of a driving game of the period, the Orca used the wheel for all manner of operations: and styled the dash in a Tron-like<\/a> electronic burst of pixelated colour.<\/p>\n

Looks strangely clunky from our perspective, of course. I can almost hear Hall & Oates pumping from the stereo…<\/p>\n\n\t\t