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choose your eternity

PCH, Hopelessly French Edition: 1925 Renault Type 45 or 1951 Citroen Traction-Avant?

We had a bit of an upset in Monday's Choose Your Eternity 3-way Superpower Showdown poll, with the French car coming in last! Yes, the '63 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint won handily, with a 55-24-22 split. That means the Italian car industry can feel the pride that comes from building the coolest- yet most nightmarish- cars very large sums of squandered money can buy! Just to show that we haven't forgotten the special place held by France in the Project Car Hell Pantheon, however, we're going to do an all-French matchup today. Thanks- and a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt- go to Hotrodelectric for these tips!
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5:20 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,293 views, 70 comments

Latest by n/a: @discontinuuity: Buy the hood, find a French military-surplus flathead V8 and you're well on your way to an all-French rat rod. more »

down on the street bonus edition

DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: Citroen 2CV

We might as well keep crisscrossing Canada, so we're doubling back to Ontario to take a look at this Citroën 2CV photographed by the aptly-named Citroen_SM. Jump away to read Citroen_SM's description.


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1:20 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Murilee Martin
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classic ad watch

1987 Citroën BX Goes Through, Not Over, Japanese Mountains

We've got a shipping container with a vaguely familiar actress at the wheel of a Citroën BX in Japan. The container opens, the car smashes through a gate, and then it plows through a sand dune. We'd expect it to emerge with all the paint sanded off, but instead it emerges unscathed, heading directly for the ocean. Citroëns in Japan- what could go wrong?

1:20 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,959 views, 19 comments

retro

Like Dien Bien Phu Never Happened: Traction-Avants In Vietnam

With our current obsession with French cars in general and Citroëns in particular, we hear a lot about Peugeots in former African colonies of France (and, yes, we know that Nigeria is a former British colony, which makes the new 504s you can buy there even cooler). But what about French Indochina, the crown jewel of the erstwhile French Empire? Long after the Viet Minh gave the French the boot, Citroëns continued to roam the streets of Hanoi and Saigon; the photo above comes from this batch of 1968-69 photos. And they're still there; nowadays it's possible to tour Hanoi in a clean-looking Traction-Avant. Thanks to SOS10 for the tip! [Luxury Travel Vietnam]

3:00 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,144 views, 19 comments

Latest by n/a: Big Cit's have always been cool more »

classic ad watch

Avoid The Shaddock's Horrible Fate With The Citroën GS

We don't speak Cartoon French around here, but it's pretty clear what's going on in this edition of Classic Ad Watch: the hapless shaddock makes the mistake of attempting to drive a car equipped with a spring-based suspension, is hurled into a tree and suffers head and leg injuries as a result. Better to drive a Citroën GS (such as the one we saw down on the Alameda street last week), which protects large sentient citrus fruit from harm with its suspension hydropneumatique! Thanks to Franzouse for the tip.

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,011 views, 24 comments

Latest by SeanKHotay: @Benson2175 & Maymar: Vous shoulda been in our French class! We learned partial via the French in Action videos of the French softcore porn star Valérie Allain as Mireille...oo-la-la, mon dieu did we pay attention in that class... more »

down on the street bonus edition

Rocket Scientist Citroen D Special Awaits Blast-Off In Virginia

We always love to see French cars down on the North American street, especially when they're Citroëns. Chimuel caught this early-70s D Special in Deltaville, Virginia, and had camera at the ready. Note the NASA parking permit.

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2:00 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
987 views, 23 comments

industry news

Peugeot-Citroen Partnering With Mitsubishi For Electric Cars

Peugeot-Citroen is teaming up with Mitsubishi to work on production electric cars in response to the current world freak-out over gas prices. Mitsubishi already has the i MiEV pictured above, but that vehicle isn't even available here. So, it remains to be seen what exactly the Franco-Japanese alliance is attempting to engineer. More »

10:20 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Mark Arnold
894 views, 11 comments

2008 citroen c5

2008 Citroën C5, Reviewed

A 6-speed manual-equipped wagon that's big enough to hold all your enfants terrible, gets 34 mpg (US) and has hydropneumatic suspension? Of course it's not sold here. But the folks over at Popular Mechanics did get the chance to test a 2008 Citroën C5 during a rainy English holiday, discovering that the big Frenchie demonstrates "supreme competence in areas that most owners appreciate most often." That's not even the worst part. Even with the plummeting dollar, their optioned-out Exclusive model retails for the equivalent of $42,700. Suddenly, that 2009 Ford Flex doesn't seem like such a bargain, does it? No mention of the Citroen C5's patented Très Difficile seating system though.

[Popular Mechanics]

1:00 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Wes Siler
1,108 views, 24 comments

Latest by aesthari: Beautiful car, me wants! more »

down on the street

Citroen GS 1220 Club

After looking at that poor sad Peugeot in the junkyard yesterday, I decided that the '91 Peugeot 405 parked a few blocks from my house now qualifies for DOTS, 17 years old or not. I grabbed my camera and headed out on foot, taking my usual roundabout route in order to maximize discovery of new DOTSworthy machinery. Down a side street, I caught sight of some extremely French-looking taillights on a car parked in the distance. Could it possibly be... a Citroën? The DOTS Holy Grail? Yes!
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9:00 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,988 views, 71 comments

Latest by al_beaton: The "38" on the plate says it's from Isère in the south west, possibly Grenoble. Home of walnuts and Chartreuse liqueur. /nerd subscription renewed more »

custom cars

Cumberford Martinique Is A Mongrel We Can Love

Yesterday's post on the Concours D'Ignorance generated a comment from mr.chöppèrs regarding what he'd rock when rolling into the show:
"In the spirit of violating the spirit of the Concours d'ignorance, I would like to roll up in a magnificent Cumberford Martinique. Mahogany body, BMW engine, Citroën suspension, cocaine styling."
Reading this hellish description and having no idea what the hell a Cumberford Martinique was, we had to get our research on.

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3:20 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,704 views, 41 comments

Latest by FЯeeMan: @dolo54: Good GOD what was that??? I mean, the profile is pretty hideous, but the front? The front looks like the chrome shop vomited and the horrific profile just happened to be in the way. more »

choose your eternity

Project Car Hell: Citroen CX Prestige or Mercedes-Benz 190 Wagon?

The jaw-droppingly steep price tag, automatic transmission, and ARBOUR GREEN paint of the '56 Jag made it an unassailable Hell Project fortress, giving the XK140 an easy win over the '58 Mercedes-Benz 190 in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Was it fair to force a Benz to go toe-to-toe with the product of a PCH Superpower? Maybe not... so today we're going to give Germany another shot at unseating a Superpower. And not just any PCH Superpower- we're having another Franco-Prussian rematch!
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5:20 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,807 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: @texajeff: I'm the guy that owns the CX in Houston at your workplace. How do I know its me?Well the other CXA Citroen CX Prestige owner in Houston runs an autobody repair shop down the street on Sage @ Richmond.I'm guessing more »

custom cars

Intersection Blacks Out Citröen C6

Determining that the stock Citröen C6 lacks the appropriate level of menace necessary to complement their world conquering ambitions, Intersection's evil minions called upon the dark powers of black spray paint. Built to fill the basic transportation needs of their newly opened French-edition, Parisian's can expect the all-black C6 to be a regular site in their cities more fashionable climes, loaded down with magazines, or more often, bicycle parts. [via Arkitip]

10:20 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Wes Siler
1,714 views, 28 comments

Latest by mr.chöppèrs: @stannate: Ah, hah hah hah! Forty-two! The all-black really suits the impossibly smooth style of the C6. As hot as Liz Cohen atop a Trabbi. more »

novelties

Rocket Powered Flying Citroen DS, All Our Memes Are Belong to Fantômas

We've never heard of what is a apparently a classic French character named Fantômas, but apprently he's a master of disguise and miscreant extraordinaire. More important to us though, in a 1964 flick, he drove a flying, rocket-powered Citroen DS. As we can see in this chase sequence between a Mini Moke and the DS in question, the transformation is brilliantly controlled through the HVAC controls and lets the creepy gray-faced anti-hero escape without a scratch. Let's just hope an underinformed passenger doesn't try to warm up the cabin in thick traffic.


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4:20 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,965 views, 39 comments

Latest by mzs: I saw this as a kid in either Austria or Poland at the age of 4 or 5 on a B&W TV. I can't believe how fake the liftoff portion looks to me now because I always remembered it as more »

junkyard find

Citroen DS Coupe Sleeps In Toronto Junkyard

Since we're in a Canadian Citröen mood today, let's take a look at this unusual machine that our Canadian friend Maymar photographed at a junkyard in Ontario. As far as we know, Citröen never made a DS coupe, but Maymar seems to have sleuthed out the likely ancestry of this machine. Make the jump to read his description.
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6:00 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,076 views, 52 comments

Latest by LandofMinos, That pissed and muted look: @Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: No I couldn't bring myself to like a car that ugly, then Clarkson told of the cavernous interior and plushy suspension. That I like and anyway I'm about to buy a 1963 more »

project car hell poster child

All Must Bow Down Before This Nissan-Powered Land Rover With Citroen Suspension!

You think you know the meaning of Project Car Hell, do you? It is to laugh! Next time your flesh is feeling singed because you can't find some trim component for your Borgward and you're feeling like you're experiencing the full measure of Hell's torments, contemplate the enormity of what Mr. Curtis Merrill of Calgary, Alberta, has accomplished with his vintage Land Rover. He's installed a turbocharged Nissan V6 out of a 300ZX, but that was just to get warmed up for the real project. Yes, he's built a custom frame and placed a complete hyrdropneumatic suspension out of a Citröen DS under the Land Rover body... and everything works! In case that still isn't enough for you, check out the Pathfinder/Jaguar front-rear differential setup, not to mention the inboard Citröen SM brakes! Thanks to Paul_Y for the tip! [Citroen-DS-ID.com]

3:20 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,139 views, 91 comments

Latest by Stoatmaster: @Adamskiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy: Sounds like a journalistic responsibility to me. more »

ad watch

Aveobots, Roll Out: Chevy Takes Swipe At Transforming Citroen In New Euro Econobox Ad

Whether it's a C4 on top of a parking garage, the same C4 showing off a penchant for ice-skating or a Chinese man just looking to score with the ladies, Citroens like to transform. In fact, so much so they've already been made fun of once before in a faux ad for the 2CV. But now another automaker's getting into the act in a new ad from the brand all about the 'merican revolution in a commercial for the new Kalos-replacing five-door hatchback Aveo econo-box. That's right, Chevy — the very last brand you'd ever expect to be knocking a badge for advertising their love of cars that transform into robots. We're guessing someone at Chevy's ad agency may have forgotten Chevys like to transform too — heck, they even have a toy version of the Aveo named "Swerve." Talk about the heights of hypocrisy. Unless Chevy's just making fun of Citroens for dancing. [via YouTube]

8:30 PM on Sun May 18 2008
By Ray Wert
3,288 views, 30 comments

Latest by DoctorNineTenths: @TexanIdiot25 [Hunting for Lemons]: I was looking for one at the local RC shop, but apparently they were limited production... ;-P more »

down on the street bonus edition

Oslo Traction-Avant... Or Denver SM?

After seeing some old Citröens down on the Oslo street yesterday, Denver's Kitt ran right out and shot a Citröen in her neighborhood. And not just a garden-variety DS or 2CV- this here is a genuine JFG-worthy SM! Looks like this one may be paying one of its all-too-common visits to the shop, but it's still alive and on the street!

4:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,497 views, 41 comments

down on the street bonus edition

Welcome To Oslo, Where Ancient Citroens Roam Free!

We've been getting some great Down On The Street Bonus Edition photos from our readers (so many, in fact, that it's getting tough to post them as fast as they come in- which is a good problem to have). However, when you find and photograph a daily-driven Citröen Traction-Avant on the streets of your city, you get jumped to the head of the line. Such is the case with Warpig, who has gone on an unprecedented DOTSBE binge in his hometown of Oslo, Norway. He's sent in literally hundreds of photos of interesting old cars found on Oslo's streets, and today we're going to look at some of the Citröens he's shot. Good work, Warpig, and we'll be showing more of your photos in the near future!

2:00 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,153 views, 37 comments

Latest by aesthari: Citroenporn, I like! Dang, Oslo must be heaven! more »

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