PerverTT
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What do you think it takes to create a motoring icon these days?
A performance advantage that blows away all contemporary rivals?
A new whiz bang automotive technology that leaves motoring hacks spluttering for words?
Or perhaps a seductive body shape that is permanently imprinted into the minds of schoolboys of a certain age?
Well, how about a design brief that calls for something that can be driven by peasants across a ploughed field, with a basket of eggs on the seat without breaking any. The eggs, that is, not the peasants.
An ugly, albeit memorable body shape, doesn’t hurt either. Throw in a wheezy 2 cylinder, 400cc engine and you have the makings of a car legend.
I am, of course, talking about the Citroen 2CV. A car so cool that even James Bond drove one, cross country, in “For Your Eyes Only.”
The 2CV, or deux chevaux, celebrates its 60th birthday this year. And it couldn’t come sooner. The French car industry hasn’t had much to celebrate about in recent years.
Click here for an article from “The Times on-line” on this most unlikely of automotive icons.
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG: France celebrates its little old Citroen
A performance advantage that blows away all contemporary rivals?
A new whiz bang automotive technology that leaves motoring hacks spluttering for words?
Or perhaps a seductive body shape that is permanently imprinted into the minds of schoolboys of a certain age?
Well, how about a design brief that calls for something that can be driven by peasants across a ploughed field, with a basket of eggs on the seat without breaking any. The eggs, that is, not the peasants.
An ugly, albeit memorable body shape, doesn’t hurt either. Throw in a wheezy 2 cylinder, 400cc engine and you have the makings of a car legend.
I am, of course, talking about the Citroen 2CV. A car so cool that even James Bond drove one, cross country, in “For Your Eyes Only.”
The 2CV, or deux chevaux, celebrates its 60th birthday this year. And it couldn’t come sooner. The French car industry hasn’t had much to celebrate about in recent years.
Click here for an article from “The Times on-line” on this most unlikely of automotive icons.
Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG: France celebrates its little old Citroen
