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Think of it as a French Beetle. For almost a half-century, Citroën's 2CV - better known as deux chevaux (two horses), a reference to its underpowered engine - was hugely popular with farmers and urban bohemians because of its cheap price and trouble-free engine. Fourteen years after the last deux chevaux rolled off the assembly line, its appeal endures. The essential piece of any car collection, its appeal stretches well beyond France, with clubs active across Europe, Israel, Australia, the U.S. and Japan. The car has long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies...
Think of it as a French Beetle. For almost a half-century, Citro?n's 2CV?better known as deux chevaux (two horses), a reference to its underpowered engine?was hugely popular with farmers and urban bohemians because of its cheap price and trouble-free engine. Fourteen years after the last deux chevaux rolled off the assembly line, its appeal endures. The essential piece of any car collection, its appeal stretches well beyond France, with clubs active across Australia, Europe, Israel, Japan...
...that ferries passengers in and around Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof), last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city...
...engineer Alec Issigonis sketched a rough design on a restaurant tablecloth of a car destined to become a British motoring icon. That doodle was the prototype for the Mini, the 3m-long, 1.2m-wide engineering feat that became - along with the Volkswagen Beetle and Citröen's 2CV - one of those small cars that inspire both devotion and ridicule. After its 1959 launch, the Mini went on to sell more than 5 million cars over the next four decades, until it became clear the car could not meet stiffened European safety regulations...
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