13/06/2008 03:33. TURIN, Italy — Lancia is an often-overlooked member of the historic Fiat family as it's not a muscular jock like Ferrari or smart and refined like Alfa. But with Fiat firing on virtually all cylinders these days, the company's top executives have felt the need to lavish some attention on their smallest child — and so, the Lancia Delta has been reborn.

The original Delta was in production in one form or another from 1979-'99, and even enjoyed a storied rally racing career in the late 1980s and early '90s. Now Fiat is relying on that heritage to pump new life into the Lancia brand.

Sitting on a variant of the Fiat Bravo platform and first glimpsed in the Delta HPE concept of 2006, the new Delta looks almost nothing like its ancestor, which was an exercise in boxiness. It bulks up with... // Edmunds.com/Inside Line