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A 435 cc engine was introduced at the same time to replace the 425 cc unit; the 435 cc engine car was named 2CV 4 while the 602 cc took the name 2CV 6 (a variant in Argentina took the name 3CV). The 602 cc engine evolved to the M28 with 33 hp (24.3 kW) in 1970; this was the most powerful engine fitted to the 2CV.
The car consists of a fibreglass body mounted on an un-modified Citroën 2CV or Dyane floorpan and engine. Later a steel tube chassis was introduced. A Lomax is usually an open two-seat roadster. The original 1982 prototype had a bespoke four-wheel chassis which was specially constructed, and of shorter wheelbase than the donor car, a Citroën Ami.
A Burton roadster at Motor-Sport-Museum Hockenheimring. The Burton is a Dutch kit car produced since 2000 by the Burton Car Company. It is a custom two-seater retro-style fiberglass body on a Citroën 2CV chassis and components, and can be built as an open roadster, a hardtop with gull-wing doors, or a custom convertible.
The Baby-Brousse is a Citroën 2CV-based utility vehicle, initially privately built, that later spawned the FAF series of vehicles. [1]Similar to a metal-bodied Citroën Méhari, the Baby-Brousse was a success with more than 31,000 being built from 1963 to 1987.
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 Ami is a rebodied 2CV with certain mechanical upgrades (particularly a larger engine than the 1950s 2CV), to compensate for the added weight. At launch all the cars were powered by an air cooled 602 cc two-cylinder flat engine which would also be offered at extra cost in the 2CV from 1970.
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The Citroën 2CV (French: "deux chevaux" i.e. "deux chevaux-vapeur" is an air-cooled front-engine, front-wheel-drive economy car introduced at the 1948 Paris Salon de l'Automobile and manufactured by Citroën for model years 1948–1990. [1]