1st Gear: IT’S BACK! MAYBE! SORTA? HOPEFULLY?
Who flies better, the helicopter or the Citroën of World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke and codriver Paul Nagle? Meeke flew to his second ever WRC win and Citroën’s 95th WRC win at Rally Portugal, so I’m inclined to pick the car here.
Citroën Racing is busy developing its 2017 World Rally Car in the south of Portugal. The prototype DS 3 WRC is powered by the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC car’s engine, and we want to have a go in it right now.
From 1991 through 1998, the automotive world may have peaked.
Good news: Citroën, the French maker of forbidden fruit for us Americans, has revived the C6 nameplate for a new…
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I, for one, am very excited about Citroën’s planned return to the United States, even if it begins with some kind of…
French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën today confirmed that they are, in fact, plotting a return to the United States…
America may be getting the DS brand, but we will never get the Citroën C6. And that is a shame. Well, not for another 15 years or so... unless you’re that one guy.
In Europe there is a van. It is called the Citroen Jumpy. “Jumpy” is a great name for anything. It’s a great name…
There’s been a gaping hole in the U.S. car market since 1991, a hole that is sorely felt by many enthusiasts but…
The interior alone on the DS E-Tense took, as the now-distinct luxury brand from Citroën claims, 800 hours to…
Just so we’re clear: if I had stupid expensive weird old car money, I’d buy a Citroën SM. Read more
Sebastien Loeb will return to the World Rally Championship as an owner next year as Autosport reports, running a team in the Junior WRC for 2016. He may have been dumped by Citroën, but that doesn’t he can’t run his own chevron-badged car if he wants to. Read more
Of all the modern Euro hot hatches that are forbidden fruit to us Americans, the Citroën DS3 Racing is my favorite, because orange wheels. Ever driven one? Read more
[When Citroën got Lotus to turn their Visa hatchback into a top-level rally car, did Lotus move the Visa’s front engine to the rear, as was standard for the WRC monsters of the day? No! They just stuck a Visa body on a Lotus Esprit chassis. Read more about this cancelled program at Weird Cars. Photo: Citroën, or maybe… Read more
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Yes. This amazing thing is happening. It’s electric, it’s a four-seater cabriolet, and clearly, it’s a proper…
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