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So you cruise at 55... mmm. So with 5 charges is that a range of perhaps 60 miles in cold weather, given Durham-Leeds return is about 200 miles?
 
I'm not sure I'm ready to leave the growl of five cylinders exploding vegoil in the outside lane just yet, especially when it's still only 1p or less for a kWh. It's no more efficient than Ferrybridge feeding the Grid, except I don't waste all the heat.

Crap quality video, but even so the advantages shine through.
 

Now this.
 

 
 
Are our towns and cities all to become as mono-cultural (and by definition, prone to rapid wipe-out) as our cropfields? Nothing but flats, houses without gardens, restaurants and nik-nak shops. Bit like the total demise of the village, now all seemingly segregated communities, largely according to income. At least in this part of the world. Are real communities only set to thrive online?

which became
 

 
this, now all gone.

Little wonder that the English never really appreciated, let alone understood this massive French company's cars (until the Peugeot parts bin BX) when their family saloon was even cleverer than the big Cits, cost less than half the price of a 3 series, had a tiny alloy boxer engine and most mechanics were scared shitless of their every aspect, unless they had a racing background or other skills well above and beyond Cortina-level.
 
Gs were very much a car for the home market and even if there'd been a big engined version for our short roads (sluggishness was a general criticism by most English motoring journos) I reckon they'd still have been unloved - at 80 they feel to be going slowly, unlike almost anything else from the time. Even so, they outsold even the BX's 10 year production - probably helped by the home market sensing the fall of a once-great manufacturer and the rise of venerable Peugeot with its brilliant 2 and 405.
 
Citroën in their final years (of being their own company, as it were) cocked up a bit with the GS - they were far too accomplished and complex for the market sector. It took BMW to the end of the 80s to introduce cars which realised the importance of aerodynamics (and aerostability), something which Citroën had studied and perfected down the decades prior to the 1970 GS, with its 0.30 Cd.
 
A great shame Honda couldn't buy the company, I can't help but feel something better could've come of it than the sorry tale which has ensued.

Can I be serious for a mo? Obviously the right answer is along the lines of mohair seat covers, but....
 
Monocoque? Flippineck no. Citroen were the first to use it in Europe, mass-style, decades before the rest and the first to ditch it - fine so long as there aren't many holes cut in it, or any localised loadings. Umm. The latest BMW uses an alloy chassis to carry the oily* and springy bits with a lightweight shell to provide torsional stiffness and to keep the rain off. Anyone who knows their Citroens is having a quiet chuckle...
 
Computers. Jesus. Just an excuse to make everything mechanical uber-cheapo, then add a bit of crapness, all rectified by a bloody PCB. Just like civil engineers and town planners were the death of anything half respectable building-wise, so cars have deteriorated rapidly since the black box.
 
My vote? The metal bearing. Where would we be without it? Absolutely fabulously nowhere, still shoving goose fat between two smouldering bits of wood.

This and the above post 216 are Fangio, the greatest ever?

Paris showroom, Champs-Elysees

Paris, Rue de Marbeuf showroom

Paris, Rue de Marbeuf showroom

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