The Lancia Gamma Olgiata was a sporting estate variant built by Pininfarina as an adaptation of the production Lancia Gamma Coupé, which Pininfarina also manufactured in series. Conceived as a three-door shooting-brake body with a sloped rear, the Olgiata was admired for its proportions but remained a one-off, since Pininfarina turned down proposals to put it into series production despite interest from enthusiasts of the sporting estate body style.
The Olgiata followed a design idea Pininfarina had already explored with the Maremma, a similarly shaped three-door estate with a raked tailgate built as a single example on the base of the Fiat 130 Coupé, the Gamma's predecessor. A related concept had also appeared in the Break Riviera, derived from the Peugeot 504 Coupé, which was likewise built by Pininfarina.
Mechanically, the Olgiata carried over the underpinnings of the Lancia Gamma Coupé, powered by a 2484 cc flat-four boxer engine producing 140 PS at 5400 rpm and 212 Nm of torque at 3000 rpm. It offered seating for four or five occupants within a body measuring 450 cm in length, 171.5 cm in width and 132.5 cm in height, on a wheelbase of 255.5 cm with front and rear tracks of 145 and 144 cm respectively.
The car's creation coincided with a significant year for Pininfarina: in January 1982 the company founded its Pininfarina Studi e Ricerche research division in Cambiano, and in March it unveiled its first car under its own marque, the Pininfarina Spidereuropa, based on the Fiat 124 Sport Spider, at the Geneva Motor Show.
