Citroën 2cv - 1982
Specifications
Make: Citroen 2CV
Model: 2CV 6 Charleston
Body type: 4-door cabrio
Year: 1982
Engine: 2-cylinder air-cooled
Cylinder capacity: 602cc
Power: 29 bhp at 5750 rpm
Torque: 39.2 Nm at 2400 rpm
Wiight: 560 Kg
Top speed: 110 km / h
Fuel: petrol
Color: burgundy and black
Seats: 4
Journalist and author L. J. K. Setright described it "the most intelligent application of minimalism ever to succeed as a car".
The Citroen Deux chevaux remained on the market from 1948 to 1990 thanks to Flaminio Bertoni’s inspired design.
In The ‘30s the new Citroen management asked the project department to design a car that was able to “transport a paesant wearing clogs and 50 Kg of potatoes, or a wine keg and have suspension to go across irregular grounds without breaking a basket of eggs”.
The T.P.V. (Tre Petite Voiture, French for very small car) project was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. For this reason Citroen destroyed 250 pre-models to save them from Nazies.
In thespring of 1944 another Italian, Walter Becchia, designed the engine. At the Paris Motor Show in 1948 the car made its debut as 2CV.