Citroen tries to revive sixties goddess

[bananas]

http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2009/02/citroen-tries-to-revive-sixties-goddess.html

February 04, 2009
Citroen tries to revive sixties goddess



No apologies for another French nostalgia post so soon after the last one. It would be impossible to ignore this item. The Citroen car company has just set pulses racing with news that they are to take a leap back to the future by relaunching their legendary DS model.

Word of the rebirth of the symbol of post-war driving dash prompted a burst of day-dreaming. Could we be in for a revival of the swooping-nosed flying-saucer of a car that came out in 1955 and defined the style of the de Gaulle era? "Please don't change a thing," pleaded one Citroen die-hard on a Californian web site. A radio commentator wondered: "What will be back next? Young Brigitte Bardot and the Caravelle (airliner) ?"

Well, it seems that Citroen may be pulling a bit of a hoax. The company has rushed to calm the excitement, pointing out that its new DS series will not be a replica but a modern homage to the "spirit" of the car whose initials are pronounced déesse -- goddess.

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The DS bowed out in 1975 but a decade later its quirky looks were still so futuristic that Hollywood used one in Back to the Future II as a taxi set in the year 2015.

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[madrchsod]

1. the concept of the auto is still ahead of anything built today

with today`s technology it would be light years ahead....

[corruptmewithpower]

2. I used to drive a Peugeot 504.

It ran some of the time, though not once was everything working at the same time. After much effort and expense repairing or replacing things like head gaskets, relays, cv joints, air conditioning, radiator fans and various electrical circuits I will never own another French motor vehicle, at least not in this lifetime.

[islandmkl]

3. a friend of mine had a latter-day SM...what a beauty...

his was pearl white and ran like the maserati it had inside...