ST2

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MX5

MK1 GT

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42

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E=mc2

XR3i

ST170

EB110

Perhaps with my avatar I should have said

2CV

= 2 horse power

Nope 9 -29 Bhp
lets see who can do the most trival of 2cv facts (note facts). I'm sure we have a 2cv nerd on here somewhere.



I'll go first
the early cars (1948) had an oval ornament on the front that was removed in 54.

Michelin had been forming an idea for a ‘people’s car’ for some years, and its takeover of Citroën led to the Very Small Car that became known as the 2CV. Development had been stalled by World War II before the 2CV made headlines at the 1948 Paris motor show. Famously designed to cross a field without breaking any eggs on board so it could cope with typically poor French roads – while also being cheap to run and repair – the 2CV would surpass five million units in car and van guises in a production run lasting from 1949 until 1990. It even gained a starring role in the 1981 James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.


Shameless copy & paste from tinternet

...or not 2CV. That is the question.

"lets see who can do the most trival of 2cv facts (note facts). I'm sure we have a 2cv nerd on here somewhere. "

they sound like a rubber band twisting on accelerating

The single nut holding on each wing can be undone with the wheel brace- genius!

Changing the kingpins is a pig of a job.

deux chevaux

The only fact I know about the 2cv is I don't want one!

I'm not what you can call a "2CV geek", but being French, I can clear up the "2CV" name mystery!

2CV stands for "2 chevaux", but "chevaux fiscaux" not "chevaux DIN". I translate : we are here talking about a tax unit, not a power unit. In France, taxes on vehicles are calculated according to their "puissance fiscale", which literally means "taxing power" The unit is the "horse", but not the "horse-power", no, it is literally the "horse-tax".

Both "horses" are of course proportional : the more powerful/luxurious the car, the higher the "taxing power" in "CV".

So, the 2CV was among the less taxed car. For example, my Peugeot Partner HDI is 6 CV, and a 2017 Porsche 911 V (991) 4.0 500HP R, is 42 CV!!!

I think cars with only "2CV" of taxation no longer exist, and if I'm not mistaken, the smallest cars are now 4cv minimum. Although, very quickly in its history, the 2CV was actually in the "3CV" taxation category.

Similar tax system was used here, £1 per horse power, but it was calculated on a formula based on bore size, not capacity or actual power output, so lots of very long stroke engines were made as a result. The Austin 7 was actually about 12 HP.

The 2CV had an openable roof so you could put large objects in the car, the brief suggested a pig could be carried on the back seat

[Edited on 27/12/17 by big-vee-twin]

My brother had one, not that an interesting but is is a fact

My brother also owned one many years ago...

He told me about one incident: both he and his wife were RAF officers, living in a tiny Suffolk village. One day, in the very early hours of the morning, they had to go on an exercise that involved them wearing fully biological warfare kit (like baggy diver's dry suits, with masks dangling). They kitted up, got in their 2CV - and it wouldn't start. So there they were, looking like a couple of aliens, bump-starting their little car at 2am in a pitch-black sleepy little village. I'd would have loved to see the reaction of any villagers who looked out of their windows!

I had an Ami then a Dyane, in the latter I took out the seats (easy to do) and with the roof rolled back transported upright, a large fridge freezer.