2 New Books about the Citroën BX
Two new books covering the Citroën BX will be available in 2021.
Two new books covering the Citroën BX will be available in 2021.
In light of Linda Jackson’s new role in Groupe PSA defining brand differentiation, Julian Marsh at Citroënet has sent a letter to her with suggestions as to how Citroën should be positioned going forward.
Marc Stabèl has just released a new and revised international version of his acclaimed book on the Citroën GS and GSA. In the two years since it was published in Dutch, a lot of new information and photographs have come to light and the book has been extensively revised and …
The art editor Robert Delpire passed away on September 26, 2017 at the age of 91 after a 70 year career. In 1950, while studying medicine, he transformed the journal de la Maison de la médicine into a high quality, luxury magazine which was funded by pharmaceutical companies. With some …
Julian Marsh from the UK (famous for the Citroënet website) sent us this scan of a 1965 brochure from Citroën Canada advocating purchasing a Citroën in Europe while on vacation and then importing it to Canada. See: https://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/canada/canada-3.html We like the part on the bottom where they will give you …
Amid the cutbacks at PSA Peugeot Citroën the Le Conservatoire Citroën has remained in tact with new models added and displays of the company’s historic models updated. The other good news is that the Le Conservatoire Citroën is now open for public viewing. Recently Wouter Jansen of CITROExpert in The …
We wrote last month about how Groupe PSA eradicated the DS and SM from Citroën’s history and took on a marketing spin to associate the DS and SM with their new “DS Brand”. This has resulted in furor from Citroën purists over the company not featuring the DS and the …
Couldn’t make it to Citromobile in The Netherlands this year? Julian Marsh has posted an extensive photo gallery of the event held on May 7 & 8. Looks like every Citroën that attended had its picture taken. View all that attended here. https://www.citroenet.org.uk/phototheques/citromobile2016/citromobile2016-index.html.
On June 4, 2015, Reuters France issued a release stating that the decision has been taken by PSA Peugeot Citroën to abandon hydropneumatic suspension: Peugeot scraps DS-era hydraulics in cost-cutting drive PARIS, JUNE 4 | BY GILLES GUILLAUME Hydraulic suspension, once key to the iconic Citroën DS limousine’s appeal, is to …
We sorrowfully announce the passing of Ken Smith, a key figure in Citroën’s UK production from the end of WWII to 1988. From May 1946 Ken worked at the Slough Production Methods Department and this meant he always had a great deal of contact with Paris regarding adapting production methods …
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