Stranger even than a Citroën SM in the Detroit suburbs is stumbling upon an 8-liter sixteen cylinder engine block from a $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron in a Budapest street. The first glance is barely cursory. Engine blocks, after all, are fairly common elements of a certain school of interior design. This one is standing on its end behind a plate of glass on a residential street in downtown Budapest....
The Art Deco love child of Citroën and Maserati is long gone, dead and buried like its contemporary the Concorde. But have we really lost the need for a grand tourer with speed and style in spades? Infrequent bursts of fawning published in these pages will prove that the Citroën SM, in its quiet yet revolutionary way, is perhaps the most remarkable automobile ever manufactured. Yet owning...
What better way to reintroduce the modern motorist to the joys of vehicular self-maintenance than with well-endowed women with fake French accents showing how to change the oil on a Citroën SM? NSFW Face it: I'm a doofus when it comes to taking care of the modern car. The replacement of mechanics with electronics has shifted the power of tinkering squarely into the domain of geeks. But there...
When he sang Wango Tango, Ted Nugent wanted the object of his affections to pretend your face is a Maserati . Nice Price or Crack Pipe likes the Motor City Madman, but doesn't think this is what he had in mind. Despite disagreement over what kind of plane yesterday's F100 was trying to emulate, it still flew off with a 74% Nice Price salute. Going from the eulogistic to the sensationalizing, today...
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Europe , Videos , Citroen , Humor , Luxury Citroen SM Oil Change How To - click above image to watch the video Assuming most of you are Citroen owners, we're confident you'll find the following video extremely helpful. Even if you just own a DS or CX and not a full blown SM, it's useful. Heck, even you 2CV owners might learn a thing or two. For the tiny minority...
Go to Detroit and you will expect to see muscle cars, American classics, hot rods, the odd Lamborghini, but you will not expect to see Robert Opron ’s rolling spaceship from 1970. The Citroën SM stands on the precipice of Vorsprung , it is from an era when the casual observer could believe in an eternity of progress. Men had repeatedly walked on the Moon, rock music was reaching for lofty...
VW is running this cool new concept car around a few auto shows worldwide. The L1 gets an amazing 100 kilometers or 62 miles per liter of fuel, which translates into 170mpg in the ultra-lightweight vehicle. This two passenger car has the passenger sitting behind the driver, which may seem odd. However, for the sake of high mileage some interesting weight-saving changes had to be made. While the styling...
The Aston Martin DB5 of Roy and Charlotte Stephenson took overall victory, winning the Index of Performance category on the 2009 Tour Britannia , having led from the first leg. In the hotly contested Competition category honours went to the Porsche 911 of father and son pairing Nick and Harry Whale, while the Regularity category was won by Bob and Anne Linwood in their Citroen SM. The third and final...
The second leg of Tour Britannia took competitors from the Midlands to Yorkshire via two of Britain's most demanding race circuits, Rockingham and Cadwell Park, and scenic special stages at Belvoir Castle. The Aston Martin DB5 of Roy and Charlotte Stephenson extended its overall lead in the Index of Performance category to almost 63 seconds over the leg's two races and two stages. The Ford Escort...
Following yesterday's sojourn across the United States we'd open our minds and borders with ten great international drives chosen from the " Drives of a Lifetime " list from National Geographic: Traveler . Click next to see our ten favorite international drives from the list, in no particular order. For the rest of the Drives of a Lifetime check out the full National Geographic list . Photo...
I go to the Monterey Historic Races every year, and this year I'm also taking my Citroen SM to a new event La Dolce Vita Automobili - it's set up to be a smaller and more fun alternative to the Concorso Italiano, which is on the same day Friday August 14th. Here is the SM at Crater Lake a few weeks ago.
Two years before they left the US market in 1995, Alfa Romeo jettisoned rear-wheel drive. Their vehicle of abandonment was a quirky plastic sports car built on a classic transaxle layout: the ES-30. As far as random street sightings to, the odds of an Alfa Romeo Roadster Zagato —the open top version of the ES-30—are stacked against you. Certainly it’s not something you expect to...
Sometimes, the French are even more French than anyone could imagine them to be. Meet the Citroën GS, star of a great little music video. The song is Un temps pour tout off Vincent Delerm ’s fourth studio album Quinze Chansons and the car is a one of those Citroëns from back when Citroën was still the weirdest and coolest mainstream carmaker in the world: a Citroën GS . A...
Driven by one of our readers comments -that's you we're talking about 'A Knesal' - in our previous classic car post on the BMW 2002, we decided to take a stroll down memory lane with one of Citroen's most prominent models, the SM. The French GT was unveiled in 1970 at the Geneva Motor Show surprising the press and the public alike with its...
Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we found a way for a Citroën SM to lose a PCH challenge: set up a pretty nice example as a clay pigeon to be blasted to dust by a heap of vaguely Ferrari-ish parts. No, it wasn't fair, but it proves the point that the SM still reigns as the King Of Project...
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