Citroen 2CV, cult to the simplicity

The Citroen 2 CV has been 60 years, to celebrate it, from this blog dedicated to the engine we produce a small homage. A tax more than deserts since in 42 years that it has been in production, of the chains of assembly of the French signature there have gone out more than five million of these vehicles.

The original project of which it would go out 2CV was called TPV (three petite voiture, very small car) and his guardian was the director of that time of Citroen Pierre-Jules Boulanger, he, the Italian designer Flaminio Bertoni and André Lefébvre. His idea was clear, to construct a very robust car that was capable of rolling about different areas, easy to support and whose cost was not very high. The first prototypes had already independent suspension in four wheels, front haulage and gearbox of four relations.

The Second World war came and the prototypes were hidden or destroyed so that they were not coming across. As soon as the conflict was concluded, Citroen, it recaptured the project. Big changes were not applied on the developed before the War, only one chose to change the bicylindrical engine refreshed by water of the prototypes into even simpler other refreshed by air and with a displacement of 375 c.c. In the bodywork there were replaced some of the original panels made of aluminum with others of iron more resistant.

2CV To estaba ready to be presented and the elected place might not be different that the Lounge of the Motorcar of Paris of 1948. The specializing press did not receive him with taste and him the criticism rained. In July, 1949 his production began and the reception on the part of the French people was exceptional, after a few months on the market, the term to be able to acquire one 2CV was coming to three years.

Citroen had constructed a very polyvalent car that was going along equally of good along city that for the field, was spacious for his small dimensions, had four doors, was turning out to be economic of using and supporting.

On Friday, the 27th of July 1990 at four o'clock in the afternoon, it went out of the factory of Mangualde that Citroen had in Portugal the last one 2CV.

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