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happy bastille day

Renaults, Citroens And Talbots... Oh My! French Cars On Bastille Day

Happy Bastille Day! In honor of the 219th anniversary of the symbolic beginning of modern France, our very own Frenchman Franzouse, has collected these photos from the "Course de Cote" vintage hill climb in St Geniez D'olt. Each car is a unique part of French rallying history, and the gallery includes a Renault R5 Turbo 2, a Citroen Visa rally car and a Talbot Sunbeam. And that's just what we can name off the top of our head.

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2:00 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,081 views, 43 comments

Latest by mewshew: As a Frenchman, I would suggest you forget about most of those, excepted for the Turbo 2 and maybe the standard R8 (you know, the grey/blue square box in the last pictures) which is far from the Gordini legend performance, more »

paris motor show

2009 Citroën C3 Picasso Peeks Out Before Paris Motor Show

The Citroën C3 Picasso is exactly the kind of Europe-only car we salivate for over here in the new world. Small, stylish, economical, extremely well packaged and quirky. Think of it as a tall Honda Fit with legroom in both rows, diesel engines and the kind of personality it seems only the French are capable of squeezing into such a small package. The C3 Picasso is scheduled to premier at the Paris Motor Show in October, but we can reveal a few details early.

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4:45 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Wes Siler
1,110 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: I meant to post a Lumina APV picture in that last post. My HTML skills are lacking. more »

down on the street bonus edition

Porn Valley Citroen SM Drives To The Strip Mall Like Any Other Car!

When you spot a Citroën SM parked in front of a Starbucks in the San Fernando Valley (also known as the Pornography Capitol Of The Universe) and it's nighttime, what do you do? I'd set a huge gas-soaked tire fire on the pavement to provide enough light for photography, but LateralGPhotography had the gear and the chops to get some great photos just with ambient lighting. Make the jump to see the whole gallery and get a Valley Bonus!


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3:45 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,614 views, 38 comments

Latest by PDQ2: Jay Leno has one in his collection(same color I believe), but his is in pristine condition. more »

classic ad watch

Citroen GSX: Brings Out Your Inner French Hoon!

Once you drop off the old man at the (train station? whorehouse?), the Citroën GSX turns you into a total menace on the roads; you'll be beating your chest and howling- and we mean literally howling- with the sheer macho joy of its mighty 65-horsepower engine. It's too bad we found this ad after selecting the entrants for the Best Car Ads Of The 1970s poll, because we think it would have made a strong showing in the vote.

11:00 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,395 views, 13 comments

Latest by Hotrodelectric: @citroen67: Wow. :( more »

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
3,236 views, 70 comments

Latest by donkeyassman: I bought some snow tires from my peugeot of this guy who had a traction avant done up all hot rod style .. plus a DS in his parking garage Check it out + Watch video 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
104 views, 1 comment

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
2,013 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
1,368 views, 20 comments

Latest by Tysto: That gallery of photos is mesmerizing. That's some really, really good photography work. Looks like maybe Ektachrome; the red channel is a little faded. 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
1,034 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
1,010 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
934 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
1,173 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
2,228 views, 72 comments

Latest by n/a: @al_beaton: This is one of citroën's most intresting cars ewer if You ask me, and a great success during the seventies! The car on the pic's are probably a -75 or -76 due to the vertical gearshift. The flat four 1222 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
1,718 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
2,908 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
1,747 views, 29 comments

Latest by RichardK: @franzouse: No-one under 60? I'm 33 and just ordered a 2.7 HDi Exclusive to (belatedly) replace my 2006 RX8. I've always liked big Citroens though, I had an XM when I was 20 and CXs for a lot of my 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
2,019 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
3,209 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: [www.flickr.com] Here is the car, It is FAKE.look for yourself, the owner wants 2000$ more »

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