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The Citroën Traction Avant (French pronunciation: [tʁaksjɔnaˈvɑ̃]) is the world's first monocoque-bodied, front-wheel drive car that was mass-produced. [2] A range of mostly four-door saloons and executive cars, as well as longer wheelbased "Commerciale", [3] and three row seating "Familiale" models, were produced with four- and six-cylinder engines, by French carmaker Citroën from 1934 ...
More generally the Rosalie was a range of three models/sizes of automobile that comprised the core of Citroën's model range between 1932 and 1938. The three models were originally designated respectively the 8CV, the 10CV and the 15CV, the numbers defining the cars' fiscal horsepower which in turn defined the approximate engine size of each model.
Model Name Introduction Discontinued Segment Body Style Predecessor Successor Notes Cars; 7U: 1911 1938 E: 4-door sedan Citroën Rosalie: 2CV: 1948 1990 B 4-door sedan 5-door hatchback 2-door panel van pickup. coupé utility. Citroën Dyane: Ami: 1961 1978 B 4-door sedan 5-door estate. 2-door van Citroën Axel. Citroën Visa. Axel: 1984 1988 B ...
In the 1920s and 1930s Citroën developed a long line of half-tracks based on the Kégresse patent. In 1934, the company introduced its newest and more powerful P107 model as a successor to the Citroën-Kégresse P17.
The U23, or Type 23, was a light (2-ton) truck introduced by Citroën in 1935. Although the engine cowling and front body appeared similar to the Citroën Traction Avant's, the U23 had a conventional rear-wheel-drive layout.
André Citroën perceived the need to differentiate his product, to avoid the low price competition surrounding his conventional rear drive models in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1933 he introduced the Rosalie, the first commercially available passenger car with a diesel engine , developed with Harry Ricardo .
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Although low floored vans with the driver set well forwards and sliding side-door on the pavement side would have become relatively mainstream 20 years later, in the 1930s the radical new van was quite unlike anything else available. The van took its 4-cylinder 35 hp (26 kW) engine, initially of 1628 cc, from the company's Traction 7C. In the ...