Citroën Pioneered the Use of Fiber Optics in Automobiles
Citroën utilized plastic optical fiber to send light from the dashboard cluster to the ignition switch keyhole.
Citroën utilized plastic optical fiber to send light from the dashboard cluster to the ignition switch keyhole.
The trailer is out for Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film and in it a Citroën DS is prominently featured in 2 scenes. No doubt it will be seen by the public in more when the 2h 18m IMAX sci-fi drama is released on September 27. The city of New Rome …
Last year I joined Citroenvie and managed to reconnect with Richard Jentner, one the owners of Pioneer Automotive in Edmonton, Alberta.
Citroënvie member Alex Bisping is considering adding him to his will.
We now know that Jean Béliveau was a spokesperson for Citroën Canada as early as 1968 and the Montreal Canadians DS was a 1968 model.
For 40 years Citroën’s UK manufacturing plant was located in Slough. Its output of cars were distributed to Britain and throughout the Commonwealth.
Here are some pics of the work on a DS that Rob Murdock in Waynesville, North Carolina has been doing for over the last year.
Timidly he told me about seeing my car and wanted to ask about or look at it or something.
The 1968 London-to-Sydney Marathon, was the first and arguably still greatest of the ultra-marathon car races but was the leading Citroën sabotaged by Brits?
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