A One-Off Finnish Station Wagon with a Traction Avant Drivetrain
Mr. Pentti H. Aaltio felt that building a station wagon with durable Traction Avant mechanicals could have potential for a production run of such vehicles.















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Mr. Pentti H. Aaltio felt that building a station wagon with durable Traction Avant mechanicals could have potential for a production run of such vehicles.
N°7 will come with a choice of hybrid and electric powertrains when deliveries begin later this year.
To avoid emission regulations in California it has been a practice for some owners in California to register their cars in Montana.
All are being offered without reserve by Hagerty’s Broad Arrow Auctions.
In the early 1980s Citroën was suffering from a somewhat outdated lineup in the family sedan segment.
In this case a Citroën Jumpy with Ram style headlights, front end and a few Ram nameplates and logos tacked on for good measure.
The plan is to travel 3,100kms starting from Algiers to the distant Tamanrasset, city of the Sahara desert, passing through mythical Touggourt, door of the Algerian desert.
You will find it not only a great way to understand how the clutch engages but how the whole assembly is constructed and installed.
We can’t help but notice the similarity in design of VW’s GEN.TRAVEL concept, especially the vertical windshield offset back in a manner almost identical to the Oli.
While some might see a hint of Pontiac Astek or Hummer H2, the Oli makes virtually any SUV attempt that has come before it blandly conservative.
Hagerty has provided information about the Espace in an excellent article titled “Why Citroen’s radical T-Top Espace never took flight”.
It is a design that the brand acknowledges is based on the original oval from 1919 but in a modern “further developed” form that will open a new chapter in its history.
They were in the process of, and were always continuously in the process of tinkering to use American components,
Car is currently appraised at $45,000 CAN by Hagerty.
Built at the Rennes La Janais plant in Brittany and the Vigo plant in Spain, it sold more than 2,337,016 million units before production finally ceased in June 1994.
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