"A friend said it looked like General De Gaulle’s nose on wheels, and certainly the Citroen DS23 EFi I briefly owned had a Gallic beakiness. Film lovers might remember The Day of the Jackal, starring Edward Fox as a "
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Economical ingenuity: 70 years of the Citroën 2CV
" The ‘umbrella on wheels’ or the ‘tin snail’, the unmistakable Citroën 2CV has also been a 24-hour endurance racer, a James Bond film star, a delivery van, a beach buggy-type fun machine, and, in twin-engined four-wheel drive ‘Sahara’ versions, "
Citroën GS
"Has there ever been a more innovative small car than the Citroën GS? Consider the evidence: when launched in 1970 its specification included power-assisted disc brakes all round (with the front units being mounted inboard), hydropneumatic self-levelling, anti-squat and anti-dive "
Hip to be square – 70 years of the Citroën H Van
"Ubiquitously hip. That’s the best way to describe Citroën’s retro light commercial in 2017, a mammoth seven decades since it first appeared on French roads. A capable workhorse after the end of World War II, it wasn’t "
CX Safari: Citroen’s ludicrous slice of loveliness
"We would particularly like a later model version. Preferably in gold. You can do a number of things with this car that are impossible in any other vehicle of its type. You can get a twelve-foot paddle board in the "
Citroën 2CV – The ugly bug that wowed the world
"No single car has summed up the French concept of the Bagnole better than the Citroën 2CV. Citroën wanted to produce a car that would be able to transport a cotchel full of duck eggs over a heavily "
The Evolution of the Citroën 2CV
"The 2CV was famously conceived by Citroën President Pierre Boulanger to drag the French farming population into the modern era - but in introducing this car he unwittingly created one of the most enduring archetypes of global car culture. "
Citroën 2CV Prototype
"Few individual cars have inspired such love, devotion and geekery than the Citroën 2CV. As so many of you will know the tiny details of how this car came to be, I won’t try to define things. We "