Not sure if this was rhetorical but in the 60s Lancia like a lot of Italian manufacturers was hemorrhaging money and in 1969 Fiat can in and bought it. Lancia to this day still has the most WRC championships and the last year they competed was 1992, after winning 6 constructors championships in a row (arguably should have been 7) after 1992 fiat took the WRC winning HF Sqadra Corse team and essentially moved to over to Alfa to turn the 155 Q4, which was essentially a 155 with Lancia Delta Intrgrale underpinnings, into a successful racecar. While they succeeded in making the 155 a great race car, there was never a full street 155 GTA one could buy and Lancia never went racing again.

Lancia… so much rally history squandered by FCA

BMW. My first car was a BMW e30 and I’ve always owned at least one but usually a couple at all times. The newest I owned was a 2015 M4 that convinced me that 2006 is probably the newest I am going to go from now on. BMWs have to be NA.