Among these was the Maison " Citrohan ", a pun on the name of the French Citroën automaker, for the modern industrial methods and materials Le Corbusier advocated using for the house.

The Lada was envisaged as a " people's car " like the Citroën 2CV or the VW Beetle.

Citroën's Xsara Picasso was a strong seller and was followed up with the C4 Picasso range with 5-and 7-seat variants, a line-up which resulted in Citroën becoming Europe's largest MPV manufacturer.

Although many manufacturers licensed the design, including Citroën with their M35 and GS Birotor, using engines produced by Comotor, General Motors, which seems to have concluded that the Wankel engine was slightly more expensive to build than an equivalent reciprocating engine, although claiming having solved the fuel economy issue, but failed in obtaining acceptable exhaust emissions, and Mercedes-Benz which used it for their C111 concept car, only Mazda has produced Wankel engines in large numbers.

The 1938 DB1 was a special, built using the remains of a Citroën Traction Avant 11CV.

Their early cars were all built using Citroën parts, but supply was troublesome and DB soon moved on to using Panhard technology.

Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën ( 1878 – 1935 ), Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that complements the motor car.

Demonstrating extraordinary toughness, a 1923 Citroën that had already travelled 48, 000 km was the first car to be driven around Australia.

The car, a 1923 Citroën 5CV Type C Torpedo, was driven by Neville Westwood from Perth, Western Australia on a round trip from August to December 1925.

Citroëns still sold in large quantities in spite of not changing the body design, but the car's low price was the main selling point and Citroën experienced heavy losses.

Citroën was in financial trouble because it developed too many radical new models for its financial resources.

In 1981, Jean Todt, former co-driver for Hannu Mikkola, Timo Mäkinen and Guy Fréquelin among others, was asked by Jean Boillot, the head of Automobiles Peugeot, to create a competition department for PSA Peugeot Citroën.

The 1955 Citroën DS featuring powered inboard front disc brakes was the first French application of this technology, while the 1956 Triumph TR3 was the first English production car to feature modern disc brakes.

It should be noted that the Citroën DS that was eventually awarded first place had illegal white headlamps but escaped disqualification.

The driver of the Citroën, Pauli Toivonen, was reluctant to accept the trophy and vowed that he would never race for Citroën again.

This was far superior to the Citroën 2CV which was aimed at a low speed / poor road rural peasant market and Morris Minor that was designed for a market that had no motorways / freeways, and even competitive with more advanced and small wheeled city cars like the Austin Mini.

The Citroën 2CV (, literally " two tax horsepower ") was an economy car produced by the French car manufacturer Citroën between 1948 and 1990.

Minnikhanov is a keen motor sports enthusiast and a regular competitor in the FIA European Championship for Rallycross Drivers, in 2007 driving a Citroën C4 T16 4x4 with 550 + bhp that was built and raced in 2006 by 14 time European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen of Sweden.

* 1980 Charleston — inspired by Art-Deco two colour styles 1920s Citroën model colour schemes

* 1983 Beachcomber — known as ' France 3 ' in France or ' Transat ' in other continental European markets — Citroën sponsored the French Americas Cup yacht entry of that year

While a sturdy car if maintained rigorously, the SM did require two sets of specialist care — Citroën specialists, which are widespread in Europe, and a rarer Maserati specialist, to keep the engine in tune.

Just before the SM's demise, Citroën produced several short-wheelbase racing versions with squared-off rear sections and highly tuned engines — known as the " breadvan " model.

While Loeb went on to register five rally victories on the bounce in a privately ( Kronos ) run Citroën Xsara WRC, his winning of the title unhampered even by breaking his arm at an advanced stage of the season, Solberg could only comparatively muster a handful of runner-up places on rallies all season — in Mexico, Argentina and Australia.

This was acceptable to BL, however, which according to Jeff Daniels ' book — British Leyland, The Truth About The Cars, published in 1980 — wanted to follow the Citroën approach of combining advanced technology with styling that eschewed mainstream trends to create long-lasting " timeless " models.

From 1968 on, Panhard has only made armored vehicles — the civilian branch was absorbed by Citroën in 1965, and the marque was retired.

Citroën did incur the expense of designing an entirely new gasoline 4-cylinder engine in 1984 for the top-of-range cars — this allowed the CX to go slightly faster at the cost of slightly worse fuel economy.

A Citroën design principle was that turning signals should not cancel themselves — this should be a conscious decision of the driver.

In 1974, the final nail in the coffin of Citroën selling autos in North America was delivered — the decision by the U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) to prohibit passenger vehicles with height-adjustable suspension.

* 1974: August 28: Introduction of the 2000 and 2200 fastbacks, with engines inherited from the Citroën DS — positioned between the bottom of range DSuper and the exclusive DS 23 Pallas

* This inertia of the gas is also the reason why on a hydropneumatic Citroën the driver will many times not even realise the event of a blown tyre — if not for the added noise — which can cause dynamic unrest and prove fatal on a steel-sprung car.

* Citroën — XM 3, 0 V6. 24 ( 200hp ) used during 1991 to 1997

* PSA Peugeot Citroën CVVT — Continuous variable valve timing.

PSA had by then already started work on a replacement for the Samba, based on the Citroën AX, a few prototypes of which — essentially rebadged AXs — were created in 1983 / 84.

A number of automobile manufacturers — Citroën, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, General Motors ( including Daewoo, Holden, Opel / Vauxhall, Saab ), Maruti Suzuki, Peugeot, Renault ( including Dacia ), Skoda, Tata Motors, Toyota, Volvo, and more recently Volkswagen — have OEM bi-fuel models that will run equally well on both LPG and petrol.

* 1933: First European passenger cars with diesel engines ( Citroën Rosalie ); Citroën used an engine of the English diesel pioneer Sir Harry Ricardo.

* LDS, hydraulic fluid used in some Citroën hydropneumatic suspension systems

Other examples include the Maserati V6 used in the Citroën SM, the PRV V6, the Honda C engine used in the NSX, Chevrolet's 4. 3 L Vortec 4300 and Chrysler's 3. 9 L ( 238 in < sup > 3 </ sup >) Magnum V6 and 3. 7 L ( 226 in < sup > 3 </ sup >) PowerTech V6.

French automobile manufacturer Citroën has used a two-chevron logo throughout its history.

The results of the survey were used by Citroën to prepare a design brief for a low-priced, rugged " umbrella on four wheels " that would enable four peasants to drive of farm goods to market at, in clogs and across muddy unpaved roads if necessary.

It pioneered the use of a large box rear section, as later used by the Morris Minor, Renault 4, Citroën Acadiane and Citroën C15 vans and copied in the 1990s by Vauxhall / Opel and Ford.

This was in response to the direct competition by the Renault 4, that had used so many stolen design ideas from the 2CV and Traction Avant that Citroën contemplated legal action at the time of its launch.

In 1993 the Citroën ZX chassis was also used for the Peugeot 306 which, with its attractive Peugeot 205 derived styling, was a more successful car than its twin.

Front-mounted air-cooled flat-twin engines were used in Tatra 11 and Tatra 30, by Citroën in their model 2CV and its derivatives.

The GS and GSA and the Oltcit Club used a flat-four and a flat-six was proposed for the Citroën DS but rejected.

Flat-twin engines were used in several economy cars, including the Citroën 2CV, the Panhard Dyna X and Dyna Z, Steyr-Puch 500, DAF Daffodil, BMW 600, several Jowett cars between World Wars I and II, and the Toyota Publica and Toyota Sport 800.

Citroën used an air-cooled flat-4 on the Ami Super, GS, GSA and Axel.

However, in the past, there were numerous examples of larger inline-fours without balance shafts, such as the Citroën DS 23 2, 347 cc engine that was a derivative of the Traction Avant engine, the 1948 Austin 2, 660 cc engine used in the Austin-Healey 100 and Austin Atlantic, the 3. 3 L flathead engine used in the Ford Model A ( 1927 ), and the 2. 5 L GM Iron Duke engine used in a number of American cars and trucks.

It used the same platform as the Citroën Xantia, though without that car's sophisticated hydropneumatic suspension system.

All engines were from the PSA TU engine series that powered the Peugeot 205 from 1988 and the Citroën AX, and had their roots before that with the OHC PSA X engine various other PSA cars used, such as the Citroën Visa, Peugeot 104 and early Peugeot 205.

The flat twin cylinder 1948 Citroën 2CV used one double ended coil without a distributor, and just contact breakers, in a wasted spark system.

These XUD engines has a capacity of 1769 cc ( XUD7 ) and 1905 cc ( XUD9 ) and are closely related to the XU5 and XU9 petrol engines in the BX16 and BX19 of the time respectively, as well as the engines later used in the 205 GTI 1. 6 and Automatic ( also 1. 6 ) and GTI 1. 9 respectively ( other Peugeot / Citroën products, such as the 305 and Talbot Horizon as well as the BX, used the XUD9 1905 cc Diesel engine of the same capacity as the 205 GTI 1. 9 and Citroën BX 19 petrol engined models ).