Citroen

Too good for my 2CV

Advantages: fun fun fun!
Disadvantages: not as modern as others, may find more problems

Okay, I have to admit, I’m not a driver but as soon as I am this’ll be my car! My mum got one when I was about seven and I’ve been smitten ever since! Although they rattle and leak when it’s wet, rattle, are unpowerful, did I m ...

emuku 26.07.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen 2CV

I'm in love with my car!

Advantages: Fuel economy, cheap to maintain
Disadvantages: A bit draughty in winter

...Just six weeks ago I bought a Citroen 2CV, and I'm in love! My 1990 renovated "Special" cost me £2200 on the road, but I never suspected what a completely new driving experience I was in for. Everyone has an opinion on these funny looking cars, mine has ...

ziggy1945 26.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen 2CV

Cheap classic motoring

Advantages: Looks, driver participation, peanuts to run
Disadvantages: Slow, noisy, 'minimalist' equipment - but you knew that already?

There's no middle ground with a 2CV - people typically either despise them or smile at them, but while there's no denying that they were essentially manufactured as the car for the French peasant, they do have something that the vast majority of modern ca ...

Kerlmann 17.09.2001 · Read full review
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To my old beat up car

Advantages: simply the best car ever made
Disadvantages: they don't make things like this no more

In my relatively short life I have owned three different 2CVs. Misfortune has forced me each time to give them up: the first time the engine broke down in a foreign land, too foreign to bring it back. The second time the car was crashed down by a motorh ...

just.amore 04.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen 2CV

The best car in the world - the 2cv

Advantages: A totally smiley driving experience
Disadvantages: None, unless you crave acceleration

...me to France at the age of 13 in 1959 I have been in love with the Citroen 2cv. We stayed with a family who had made friends with my father when he was stationed in Rouen during the war and they had this old tin car which boun ...

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