Ain't Citroen France's tough cookie in terms of cars during the period?

ezekill said:

Ain't Citroen France's tough cookie in terms of cars during the period?

It's the french counterpart to the Volkswagen Beetle: Simple, rugged, cheap, easy to repair, with a cult-followership to today. In Germany it's called the "Ente" - the duck.

And a postwar car made to make French people more 'mobile': the continuation of the philosophy of the VW Beetle of making cars available to the average citizen, along with the Fiat 500 and the Austin Mini. Those were the exponents of the 'massification' of cars and, for me, the last revolution in terms of motorized vehicles.

The 2CV is the minimalist version of a car.

There's no luxuries on it, there's so few parts on it that pretty much nothing can break, and the stuff that actually breaks is cheap as dirt and easy to fix.

Or at least it was when it was newer.

sanitaeter said:
In Germany it's called the "Ente" - the duck.

In the Netherlands its called "Het Lelijke Eendje", or "The Ugly Duckling"

FWP said:

The 2CV is the minimalist version of a car.

There's no luxuries on it, there's so few parts on it that pretty much nothing can break, and the stuff that actually breaks is cheap as dirt and easy to fix.

Or at least it was when it was newer.

In the Netherlands its called "Het Lelijke Eendje", or "The Ugly Duckling"

2CV was désignés as a car for social classes in rural and low-income countries.