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| | Dimitri's Lancia Gamma Coupe' website |
 | | The Thema 8.32 is a veritable wolf in sheep's clothing, an authentic "Q-car", the automotive version of the legendary WWI disguised armored merchant freighters that, through their unassuming appearance, would lure an unsuspecting enemy submersible close before throwing it's mask and opening fire. |
 | | Rather, it was a pinnacle: the normal production Lancia Thema was an enormously successful automobile, taking over from the ill-fated Lancia Gamma in 1984 and selling strongly until the introduction of the Lancia Kappa in 1992, with a wide array of gasoline and turbodiesel engines, and the Thema 8.32 was it's highest refinement. |
 | | The "Thema Ferrari", therefore, was determined by little more than a fleeting whim by uncharacteristically enlightened Turin corporate management, whose intended low-volume production and high profile were to offer further prestige to the Thema line, in forever contrast with the automakers in Stuttgart and Munich. |
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