Rare Maserati Quattroporte Prototype with a Smidgen of Citroën Influence
A very rare forerunner to the Maserati Quadraporte II, with just a couple of Citroën components, was offered for sale today by RM | Sotheby’s in Le Castellet, France.
A very rare forerunner to the Maserati Quadraporte II, with just a couple of Citroën components, was offered for sale today by RM | Sotheby’s in Le Castellet, France.
Some impressive Citroëns were on display at Epoqu’auto 2021 in Lyon, France.
The article goes into great detail and shows some good pictures of the process involved, but one needs to stay on top of all stages of a DS restoration.
The film contains some incredible archive footage of a Kégresse track vehicle and then La Croisière Jaune — the trans-Asian expedition in 1931/1932 that was organized by Citroën to promote their Kégresse vehicles and further the company’s reputation for reliability.
MoMA had the car repainted before the exhibition. Things were disassembled, and the parts must have been reassembled by people with no knowledge of a DS.
Among the Aston Martins and the other exotics that participated in the event, his lowly 2CV continually stood out as the crowd pleaser.
The China Car is a new book by François Castaing that provides much greater detail about a project that has fascinated many of us in the Citroën community.
Kees and Jacobine Kamp from the Netherlands recreated a 1977 CX Rally car, drove it all over West Africa in 2018–19, and now they will race a CX in the 2022 Dakar Classic in Saudi Arabia.
A few days ago in New York City, for reasons the owner, Chef Nacxi Gaxiola, can’t even begin to understand, someone in his neighbourhood set fire his company’s H Van delivery vehicle.
A Citroën BX 4TC Evolution, a car roundly considered Group B’s most spectacular failure, defied expectations at the Artcurial auction on Nov. 4, 2021, selling for an astounding $485,287 USD
Kevin Haggarthy from MotorOverload recently got to drive the car that caught his fancy as a youth — the Citroën SM.
Publisher Citrovisie is offering an English translation of the book “Citroën CX, aerodynamic elegance”. Over the years, the CX book has become the de-facto resource publication for the CX.
A number of interesting Citroëns from the collection of the former Dakar driver Richard Romagny, many of them with comparatively low mileage will be offered for sale.
DS Automobiles will keep selling cars in China and next year will unveil a new plan to boost disappointing sales.
The Osenat auction house will be offering 10 Citroëns that are quite interesting on November 7, 2021 at Salon Epoqu’Auto.
They were never sold here, but if you would like to acquaint yourself with Citroën’s economy offerings of the 1980s and early to mid 1990’s there is a new book on the Romanian-built Citroën Oltcit and Axel models.
Here is a rare peek into what Peter Mullin of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, CA and his wife Merle keep at their home in Brentwood.
Laura experiences the quirkiness of the French marvel, and gets a bit more Gallic along the way.
Here we present a SM that is the standard to be judged by. Located in Cannes, France it was advertised for sale on October 12, 2021 at an asking price of 170.000 € and sold within 1 day!
15 Citroëns are being auctioned at the Artcurial Automobiles Sur Les Champs in Paris on October 24, 2021, many offered with no reserve.
The CX was the evolution of the DS, but it was a radical change that abandoned its form in favour of what Citroën felt a modern sleek flagship sedan should be.
With Halloween coming up in few days we felt that posting a tricked-out Citroën H Van reproduction food trailer being offered for sale in China would be appropriate.
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