So damn ugly that it's cool.

I remember attending the Toronto auto show in the early 90's and a company had one on display. They'd take a fifteen year old car, gut it to the frame and build it up new from there. (to get around import safety restrictions) Then you were supposed to give them $20,000, which would be closer to $30,000 today. No wonder they weren't at the auto show the following year.

tre cool

@halfshaft: Wow, that's a lot. You can get a decent one for under US$10k, if you shop around.

Some day, I would like to have a 2CV to fool around with (not in the manner a dragon might, of course). They seem so fun.

250 Points - thats for the earlier ones with the suicide doors. Bitchen 'camino level.

I don't like to hate on any particular car, and I know these things are beloved in France....these things are beloved in France. That's all you need to know.

I was bored enough to actually run this through the jalop-o-meter. I'm coming up with 310, although I probably missed something. I didn't include items worth 0 points.

2-Cylinder: 50 points. We heart Trabants
Boxer layout: 10 points.
Throttle bodies: Add 5 points per throttle body.
Carburetor: Add 10 points for each carb.
Air Cooled: 25 points.
Convertible: 15 points.
Suicide Doors: 50 points.
Manual: 20 points. And good for you.
France: 50 points.
0-50 hp: 25 points. You're very brave.
50 - 60 years: 50 points. Especially if you have Gullwings.

@Paul Y. Rocks:

Of course that was $20,000 Canadian which would've been about $14,000 US at the time, and it was in effect brand new. But hell, even i have more horsepower that that thing on a good day.

I wonder if the guy with the Ferrari 599 lusts after its Plate Numbers?

@TylerE:

I'm low, you're high :). Its really a sedan, not a convertible, and I don't know about those throttle bodies either, its just one carb sitting on top of a y shaped manifold. Suicide doors reach back to about 1960, so I can't really give it all those 50 points for antiquity. But I'd call it about 280. Its great!

I saw one of these in the truck version yesterday in downtown Chicago. Except it was blue.

Aren't French and Crazy synonyms.

I Kid.

Ewwww. This is probably my least favourite car in the entire world excluding chryslers, hybrids and the poorly made bastard ford focus.

Be Still My heart.

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@halfshaft: Oh hell, apparently I've already forgotten the heyday of the strong US/weak Canadian dollar of a few short years ago. That makes sense. For a car restoration, that's actually pretty reasonable.

@Impalamino: Oh for god sake, cut the crap. Learn some US history and thank the french for helping.

@sos10:
Relax, Francis. I reckon he was being facetious.

@BSAKat: you're right, but I just hate stereotyping... maybe even more than elderly korean ladies in their champagne metallic Lexus ES who turn right but into the most left possible lane just when you are in that lane.

Which one of our wags referred to this vehicle as a "rolling shed"? I think that nailed it.

it goes faster in reverse

wasnt it a bond car?

sweet i see one of these rolling around vancouver sometimes.. one time I saw it driving on the grass in a local park.. REALLY!

and a canvas sunroof is pretty neat too

Bitchin and in nice condition.

Looks to be a 70's/ early 80's model with the round rather than square headlights. Bumpers and wheels are non standard colours. They were called the 2CV6 in the UK.

Some 2CV's were 4 door saloons with a low opening boot but a hatchback was an optional extra (like mine) for scoring extra points.

JFG contender one day...?

same car from the video game "cliffhanger"

Ah, to have been there to say hi!
My fleet is rarely on the road, given all the moms in Excursions and F450 Super Duty trucks jamming the Southern California roads on their way down for a latte. Not to mention average highways speeds of about 80 mph in morning traffic.

@TylerE:

Um... how does the jalop=o-meter work?