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The Citroën 2CV (French: deux chevaux, pronounced [dø ʃ(ə)vo], lit. "two horses", meaning "two taxable horsepower") is an economy car produced by the French company Citroën from 1948 to 1990. Introduced at the 1948 Paris Salon de l'Automobile, [1] it has an air-cooled engine that is mounted in the front and drives the front wheels.
Leray built a desert motorcycle out of the parts of a broken-down Citroën 2CV in 1993, while on a solo trip in Morocco. His car broke down in the middle of the Sahara when he accidentally hit a rock which damaged his car's chassis. He was stranded twenty miles from the nearest settlement, with only enough food and water to last ten days. [1]
The Citroën 2CV, produced from 1948 to 1990, was one of the first front-wheel drive cars to use a flat engine. The 2CV was powered by an air-cooled boxer-twin engine. Also in 1948, the Panhard Dyna X was released with front-wheel drive and an air-cooled boxer-twin engine.
The first 2CV 24hr race was held in 1990 at Mondello Park a short distance from Dublin, and remained at the circuit until 2003 when it moved to Snetterton in Norfolk. The 2020 Citroën 2CV 24 Hour Race was held at Snetterton Circuit on 28–30 August. The 30th running of the race. It was the only 24 Hour race to take place in the UK in 2020.
This produced cycles and various cars from 1898, (Clément-Panhard, Clément-Gladiator from 1901, Clément-Bayard from 1903), and went on to build various Citroën models including the Citroën 2CV for nearly forty years from 1948 to 1988. From August 1914 it was dedicated to wartime production.
The Hoffmann 2CV Cabrio is a kitcar based on the Citroën 2CV. Hoffmann 2CV Cabrio. In 1988, Wolfgang Hoffmann developed the design and the first prototypes. A lot of Hoffmann 2CV Cabrios have been built as a homework project. Approximately 250 professionally manufactured vehicles left the workshop in Hohenfurch.
The major variants of the Lomax are: [2] Lomax 223: Three-wheeler; Lomax 224: Four-wheeler; Lomax Lambda 3/4: Redesigned rounder versions of the 223 and 224 respectively; Lomax Supertourer: Four-wheeler resembling a 1930s touring car, retaining the 2CV's cooling fan and heat exchanger instead of the simple air cooling of other models
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