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Another crowd-stopper was Citroën's grey canvas-topped Deux Chevaux (for its 2 h.p.-10 U.S. h.p.), a famed little low-priced, four-passenger model sporting an automatic gearshift, the first in a cheap French car. The gears change automatically as the engine increases and decreases its speed. If Deux Chevaux is successful, Citroën will concentrate on producing clutchless cars...
French visitors to the show were also surprised by price cuts. Simca reduced one model by $180, and Renault announced cuts up to $128. Citroën and Peugeot are expected to follow suit. Renault also came out with a time payment plan, something new for French car buyers. Frenchmen may sign up to buy a new Renault with 25 monthly payments, get delivery after the eighth payment is made...
...National Assembly sits high above the 627 deputies in a huge, brassbound armchair, and acts like the umpire at a political tennis match. Constitutionally, he ranks second only to the President of the Republic. Financially, his job is a choice plum: $15,000 a year, a black, six-cylinder Citroën and a chauffeur, a big apartment in the Palais Bourbon with Louis XV furniture, Sevres china, gold-plated silverware, even free gas and electricity...
...m.p.h., which sells for about $1,100, and 2) the Standard Eight, a four-cylinder model that sells for $956. France showed off a tiny Rovin convertible, with a top speed of 50 m.p.h. and a $1,033 price tag. There was also a front-wheel-drive Citroën, one of France's most popular cars (it has a two-year waiting list), with a two-cylinder engine, maximum speed of 50 m.p.h. and price of $977. Also on display was Panhard, another two-cylinder car, which has a top speed of 85 m.p.h., costs about...
...Lancia (only a handful of U.S. fanciers do), but by Kings of the Road standards he is not doing so badly: he owns and drives a 1927, two-seater Bugatti. He also owns an Isotta-Fraschini '28, a Peugot '14, and even a comparatively Johnny-come-lately Citroën 1939. He has also owned a Mercer Raceabout two-seater, vintage 1912, a real American beau ty. To drive a 1912 Mercer, says Purdy, is to feel "the movement of a horse under you. You sit in the seat, not just on it, both feet are solidly braced...