A Sunday flashback today to 1970s France and a spectacularly diverse array of machines that were, at the time, just people’s regular cars. So where are we? Rouen, more specifically Rue de l’Écureuil, circa 1971….
Posts tagged Citroën
Citroën DS23 Pallas: A Fitting End
It’s been said many times, but it bears repeating – the Citroën DS was probably the most ambitious production car project of all time. The DS23 Pallas, seen here, was the ultimate version of it…
The First Peugeot-born Citroën: LN/LNA
No doubt President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, having eked out an election win over labor favorite Francois Mitterrand only months earlier, breathed a sigh of relief on December 4, 1974. Ailing Citroën, for months in very…
The 17-year “Stopgap”: Citroën Ami 8
In the late 1950s Citroën sold just two basic designs – the large DS (and its slightly more basic companion, the ID) and the tiny, bare-bones 2CV. The chasm between the two had been the…
Bastille Day Memories: Citroën Traction 15-Six
Joyeux 14 Juillet à tous! For this Bastille day and the 100th Anniversary of Citroën, here’s an old shot of a rare six-cylinder Traction Avant. Every year for Bastille day, the New York Citroën and…
The Last Gamble: Citroën CX
Replacing an all-time great is always fraught with peril – creating something as equally amazing as the Citroën DS was not an easy task and it took more than half a decade to do it….