Yes and many of the Italian cars were not built to survive the amount of salt applied to the roads here in the US.

10 minutes after this photo was taken all there was left, was a pile of rust..........
The Beta's issues, including a rust problem often attributed to the use of Russian steel, doomed Lancia in the export market, even if in retrospect its corrosion troubles were matched by many 70's cars, but the marque never really recovered.