The Conservatoire Citroën online auction, held on Dec 10, has ended with some surprising results. Memorabilia items were sold for high prices, many 2 to 4 times what they were expected to fetch.Leclere Motorcars, the automobile division of the auction house Leclere, auctioned off a portion of the r ...

Due to an impending relocation, Citroën is planning to auction 64 cars from the Conservatoire next month.Approximately 400 Citroëns currently reside in the company’s heritage collection – from early pre-war examples, one-off prototypes and important motorsport cars.Citroën says that it is mai ...

The Citroën Type H made its world premiere exactly 70 years ago at the Paris Automobile Salon 1947.  Its recipe for success was typical of the post-war period: simple design, robust technology, reduction to the essentials and its versatility made the front-wheel-driven utility van a "cash cow" ...

The association L'Aventure Peugeot Citroën DS announced the takeover of the commercial activities of Néo Rétro, a company specializing in the distribution of spare parts for old French old.   L'Aventure Peugeot Citroën DS is the re-branded name of Le Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot, a his ...

On September 3 at Salon Privé, Silverstone Auctions, they will offer a Citroën that we have featured in Citroënvie.  It is the superb 1973 D Super 5 that belonged to Len Drew.  The car was originally purchased by the CEO of a Citroën dealership, and Ken was the 2nd owner and fanatically mainta ...

by John McCulloch.....PSA Peugeot Citroën is back!  The opening sentence from an article in Le Monde, the newspaper of record in France says it all."After a loss in 2014 of 555 million euros, the company under Carlos Tavares made a profit of 1.5 billion euros."   How did he do it?   Essentially ...

PSA Peugeot Citroën has sealed a long-awaited rescue deal that will see the Peugeot family cede control of the company.  As announced previously, (in our "PSA Peugeot Citroën – Fortune Cookie Future?" blog - Oct. 18, 3013) China's Dongfeng Motors and the French government will each invest about ...

October 25th, marked the last day of automobile production at PSA Peugeot Citroën’s factory at Aulnay-sous-Bois.  The last vehicle off the line was a Citroën C3 destined to the Citroën Conservatoire.  (The production of the Citroën C3 is now fully moved to Poissy.)  Now the factory is releg ...

On September 15, 2013, CITROËN HERITAGE, the part of the company that cares about the preservation of knowledge and history of the brand including the“Conservatoire” archive of cars and documents located at Aulnay-sous-Bois (near Paris) has appointed a new manager for the operation.   Marc-An ...