“The car should be unexcelled for high-speed, long-distance touring in comfort… the quality is of a kind only possible in handmade cars, and to get it you have to be willing to pay. For those who are willing, it offers transportation that is, beyond doubt, in the fabled grand manner.”

Road & Track tries a new Lancia Flaminia Sport Zagato in November 1960

Few marques generate as much loyalty and sheer enthusiasm as Lancia. Highly advanced in their day, a Lancia Granturismo of the 1950s and early 1960s was, without question, a ‘thinking man’s GT’, a car for true connoisseurs. It was also the choice of champions. The great Argentine, Juan-Manual Fangio, winner of five World Championships and the 1953 Carrera Panamericana at the wheel of a Lancia D24, chose an Aurelia B20 GT for the long journeys from Modena 
or Maranello to races across the length and breadth of Europe.