FBHVC and Motul sponsor Lancia feature film premiere

Published: 15/04/2024

The Lancia Motor Club are delighted to announce the arrival soon of the UK Premiere of the film Vincenzo Lancia and the Birth of Modern Motoring.   The Federation and its lubricant partner, Motul are sponsoring the event 

The UK premiere of the feature-length documentary will take place at The Royal Spa Centre, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on Saturday 20th July. The premiere is already fully-booked. Details of further showings are to be announced. 

For the first time on film, and with the participation of the Lancia family, this is the story of one of the great automotive pioneers.

The production, by Berlinetta Films, traces the story of Vincenzo Lancia and the Birth of Modern Motoring and includes interviews with family members Giovanni & Luigi De Virgilio, Costanza Lancia & Lorenzo Pataccia.

The film also answers the question: Who was Vincenzo Lancia?

• He was the fastest racing driver of the era...
• He founded the first Italian automotive dynasty...
• He invented the most advanced car in the world...twice!
• He changed the course of motoring.
• Most of all, he did it his way.
• Without him, the car you drive today would not be the same.

The film also features: GEOFFREY GOLDBERG Author, Lancia & De Virgilio WIM OUDE WEERNINK Author, La Lancia BILL JAMIESON Author, Capolavoro NIGEL TROW Author, The Shield & Flag MARIELLA MENGOZZI MAUTO ROBERTO GIOLITO Stellantis Heritage
LORENZO MORELLO ASI PROF ALDO ENRIETTI Automotive Historian PROF GIANNI OLIVA Italian Historian.

The film's trailer can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/930775133

Vincenzo Lancia typified the spirt of the age. At the turn of the 20th century, the motor car fired the imagination like few other inventions. He was 18, son of an entrepreneur, and living in Turin, a buzzing city reinventing itself as a capital of industry.

In the right place at the right time, he seized his opportunity, first as a test driver for the nascent Fiat and then as their daredevil racing driver, helming mighty machines to the delight of crowds on both sides of the Atlantic.

Vincenzo was a young man with grand designs and in 1906, the famous racer established his own motor company. Not to build racing cars, but to make cars of a certain quality and drivability uncommon at the time.

With his small team of talented engineers, against a backdrop of world war and political upheaval, Lancia embraced unorthodox thinking, listened to his customers and contemplated the ‘total’ car.

Within just 16 years, his quiet revolution was complete, with the creation of the Lancia Lambda, a vehicle so innovative and advanced, it set the agenda for the modern motor car.

A feat he achieved again 15 years later, with the Aprilia, a year before his premature death.

Today Lancia is celebrated worldwide as one of the great Italian marques and for its legendary rally conquests over the last 25 years of the previous millennium.

However, few remember its founding father and how he paved the road to the future.