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Its still kind of hard to believe the 600horsepower Subaru WRX STI tinkered on by Prodrive is built on the bones of a regularass WRX STI that I could. The Citron 2CV French deux chevaux i. Andr Lefbvre. Flaminio Bertoni. Walter Becchia. Marcel Chinon. Body and chassis. Class. Economy car. Body style. 5 door hatchback. Layout. Front engine, front wheel drive four wheel drive. Related. Citron Ami. Citron Dyane. Citron Acadiane. Citron FAFCitron Mhari. Citron Bijou. Powertrain. Engine. 37. 5 cc 2. CID H2air cooled 9 hp. H2 air cooled 1. H2 air cooled 2. H2 air cooled 2. Transmission. Dimensions. Wheelbase. Length. 3. 8. 6 metres 1. Width. 1. 4. 8 metres 5. Height. 1. 6. 0 metres 6. Curb weight. 60. 0 kg 1,3. Chronology. Successor. Citron Dyane. Citron AX indirectlyThe Citron 2. CV French deux chevaux i. Paris Mondial de lAutomobile and manufactured by Citron for model years 1. Conceived by Citron Vice President Pierre Boulanger4 to help motorise the large number of farmers still using horses and carts in 1. France, the 2. CV has a combination of innovative engineering and utilitarian, straightforward metal bodywork  initially corrugated for added strength without added weight. The 2. CV featured low cost simplicity of overall maintenance an easily serviced air cooled engine originally offering 9 hp low fuel consumption and an extremely long travel suspension offering a soft ride and light off road capability. Often called an umbrella on wheels,91. Notably, Michelin introduced and first commercialized the radial tyre with the introduction of the 2. CV. Manufactured in France between 1. Portugal from 1. 98. CVs were produced, along with over 1. CV based delivery vans known as fourgonnettes. Citron ultimately offered several mechanically identical variants including the Ami over 1. Dyane over 1. 4 million the Acadiane over 2. Mehari over 1. 40,0. In total, Citron manufactured almost 9 million 2. CVs and variants. The purchase price of the 2. CV was low relative to its competition. In West Germany during the 1. Volkswagen Beetle. From the mid 1. Fiat 5. Fiat 6. 00, and 1. Austin Mini. By 1. Germany produced a price competitive car the Messerschmitt KR1. Isetta these were microcars, not complete four door cars like the 2. CV. 1. 2 On the French home market, from 1. Simca 1. 00. 0 using licensed Fiat technology, and the larger Renault 4hatchback had become available. The R4 was the biggest threat to the 2. CV, eventually outselling it. Puppy (Screen Mate). A 1. 95. 3 technical review in Autocar described the extraordinary ingenuity of this design, which is undoubtedly the most original since the Model T Ford. In 2. 01. 1, The Globe and Mail called it a car like no other. The motoring writer L. J. K. Setright described the 2. CV as the most intelligent application of minimalism ever to succeed as a car,page needed and a car of remorseless rationality. HistoryeditDevelopmenteditIn 1. Michelin, as the largest creditor, took over the bankrupt Citron company. The new management ordered a new market survey, conducted by Jacques Duclos. France at that time had a large rural population which could not yet afford cars Citron used the survey results to prepare a design brief for a low priced, rugged umbrella on four wheels that would enable four people to transport 5. In fuel economy, the car would use no more than 3 l1. One design requirement was that the customer be able to drive eggs across a freshly ploughed field without breaking them. In 1. 93. 6, Pierre Jules Boulanger, vice president of Citron and chief of engineering and design, sent the brief to his design team at the engineering department. The TPV Toute Petite Voiture Very Small Car was to be developed in secrecy at Michelin facilities at Clermont Ferrand and at Citron in Paris, by the design team who had created the Traction Avant. Boulanger closely monitored all decisions relating to the TPV, proposing strictly reduced target weights. He created a department to weigh and redesign each component, to lighten the TPV without compromising function. Boulanger placed engineer Andr Lefbvre in charge of the TPV project. Lefbvre had designed and raced Grand Prix cars his speciality was chassis design and he was particularly interested in maintaining contact between tyres and the road surface. The first prototypes were bare chassis with rudimentary controls, seating and roof test drivers wore leather flying suits, of the type used in contemporary open biplanes. By the end of 1. 93. TPV experimental prototypes had been built and tested. The prototypes had only one headlight, all that was required by French law at the time. At the end of 1. 93. Pierre Michelin was killed in a car crash Boulanger became president of Citron. By 1. 93. 9 the TPV was deemed ready, after 4. These prototypes used aluminium and magnesium parts and had water cooled flat twin engines with front wheel drive. The seats were hammocks hung from the roof by wires. The suspension system, designed by Alphonse Forceau, used front leading arms and rear trailing arms, connected to eight torsion bars beneath the rear seat a bar for the front axle, one for the rear axle, an intermediate bar for each side, and an overload bar for each side. The front axle was connected to its torsion bars by cable. The overload bar came into play when the car had three people on board, two in the front and one in the rear, to support the extra load of a fourth passenger and fifty kilograms of luggage. In mid 1. August 1. French market. 2. Brochures were printed and preparations made to present the car, renamed the Citron 2. CV, at the forthcoming Paris Motor Show in October 1. One innovation included from the beginning of production was Michelins new radial tyre, first commercialized with the introduction of the 2. CV. 2. 8 This radial design is an integral part of the design of the 2. CV chassis. 2. 9World War IIeditWater cooled engine from the TPVRestored Citron TPV with a single headlight. On 3 September 1. France declared war on Germany following that countrys invasion of Poland. An atmosphere of impending disaster led to the cancellation of the 1. The launch of the 2. CV was abandoned. During the German occupation of France in World War II Boulanger personally refused to collaborate with German authorities to the point where the Gestapo listed him as an enemy of the Reich, under constant threat of arrest and deportation to Germany. Michelin Citrons main shareholder and Citron managers decided to hide the TPV project from the Nazis, fearing some military application as in the case of the future Volkswagen Beetle, manufactured during the war as the military Kbelwagen. Several TPVs were buried at secret locations one was disguised as a pickup, the others were destroyed, and Boulanger spent the next six years thinking about further improvements. Until 1. 99. 4, when three TPVs were discovered in a barn, it was believed that only two prototypes had survived. As of 2. 00. 3 there were five known TPVs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Iso 32 Bit on this page. By 1. Citron showed that producing the TPV post war would not be economically viable, given the projected further increasing cost of aluminium. Boulanger decided to redesign the car to use mostly steel with flat panels, instead of aluminium. The Nazis had attempted to loot Citrons press tools this was frustrated after Boulanger got the French Resistance to re label the rail cars containing them in the Paris marshalling yard. They ended up all over Europe, and Citron was by no means sure they would all be returned after the war.