Citroën 2CV

(excerpted from projo.com) The car did not have an auspicious start. When it was unveiled in 1948 at the Paris Auto Show, it was greeted with ridicule. It may look like a tin can on springs, but the design criteria posed by Citroën management was for an “umbrella on four wheels,” a car that would enable two country people to drive about 200 pounds of farm goods to market at about just over 35 mph along muddy unpaved roads. Its bouncy suspension was famously due to the stipulation that it had to be able to cross a ploughed field with a basket of eggs in the back seat. It also had to have a roofline high enough to accommodate hats. With its front-wheel drive-train, the cabin is spacious and the canvas roof rolls all the way back to open up the top. In addition, the seats can be unlatched and slid out to serve as picnic chairs.

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