I love a good people’s car. Anything mercilessly designed to be cheap, sturdy, and simple to get people moving fascinates me. These include things like the Ford Model T, Volkswagen Beetle, Land Rover Series 1 and especially Citroen 2CV.
2CV is weird compared to all the other cars I mentioned the ride is ridiculously light thanks to its box-spring suspension29 hp flat twin engine, and cute snail shape that you can’t help but love. Even its famous design brief for “carrying four farmers, 100 lbs of cargo including eggs through freshly plowed fields without breaking eggs” is cool, but what happens when you throw it away? Drop all that and turn it into a race car?
Enter this completely banana 2CV hill climber. In addition to being smashed to the ground and fitted with tires slightly wider than the palm of a hand, a certain mad scientist dumped the wheezing French boxer and installed the 1200cc BMW R1200 GS engine and fitted the kit. super loaded. It. Yes, this car now has more than 150 horsepower – about five times more than the original car.
Even with these race car upgrades, it doesn’t really deliver amazing performance, but god damn it, it looks swashbuckling and like driving up that hill with the gear lever on. columns and spacious cockpit will be interesting. I will commit large-scale crimes, not even just victimless crimes, to drive this thing, but alas, like you, I will have to be content with watching this video over and over again.
